Giaveno
Giaveno | |
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Comune di Giaveno | |
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Postal code | 10094 |
Dialing code | 011 |
Website | Official website |
Giaveno is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Turin.
History
Giaveno has very ancient origins; some local historians trace the first settlement back to Roman times. The important Gavi family of
It is said that in 773 Charlemagne crossed the watershed that divides the Val di Susa from that of the Sangone, came to the plain located near the village Gavensis and caught the Longobards from behind between the Chiusa di S. Michele and Villardora and attained victory by defeating them there.
In 1103 the
Giaveno returned to the abbots of San Michele on February 21, 1209 with a donation from the Count of Savoy Tommaso I, who fortified the square with a robust wall and built a castle there.
Subsequently, in 1347, Abbot Rodolfo di Mombello decided to "villam iavenni murare", with two trebuchet walls (about 6 meters high), interspersed with five circular towers. The perimeter of the "Abbey Citadel" is still clearly legible today.
In 1611 a new patron S. Antero, whose relics were moved from Rome to Giaveno, joined the owner of the protection of the village, S. Lorenzo. In 1622 Cardinal Maurizio asked for and obtained from the Holy See a bull approving the erection of the Insigne Collegiate of San Lorenzo Martire. At the end of the seventeenth century numerous raids and looting by the French general Nicolas Catinat stripped the villages, the castle and the churches of their valuables.
1630 proved to be a particularly critical year for the country, since during the Second Monferrato War (an episode which can be considered part of the wider Thirty Years' War ) Giaveno was occupied by French troops led by the Duke of Montmorency. In the meantime, the plague erupted throughout Piedmont, causing many victims.
The Dukes of Savoy went to war against the French. The Marshal of France Nicolas Catinat invaded Piedmont, setting it on fire, and, after the French victory at the battle of Marsaglia (1693), Giaveno suffered looting and burning.
The French were defeated and driven out of Piedmont after the fatal siege of Turin on September 8, 1706. Important pages of history were written during the Resistance period in World War II (1943-1945), which saw the
Twin towns
- Brinkmann, Argentina
- Chevreuse, France
- Novska, Croatia
- Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
Notable natives
- Dino Pogolotti (1879–1923), real estate entrepreneur
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- Istat.
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