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Single Mom Sally brought the five kids for breakfast. I noticed them as I was coming up the side after taking my Day 271 image so I had to stay hidden to grab this shot.
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My parents had a breakfast for our relatives who came in town for my sister's wedding, and I remembered to take a few photos before they all left.
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Sorico is an Italian municipality of 1,236 inhabitants in the province of Como in Lombardy , in the Regio Insubrica Euroregion and in the Valli del Lario and Ceresio mountain community .
Located at the northernmost point of Lake Como (57 km north of Como ), represents the last river town in the Mera river basin and constitutes the connection point between Alto Lario, Valtellina and Valchiavenna. The municipality with its people23 km² is the fourth largest in the province of Como. Sorico can be reached by car along the SS340 (from Como-Lugano), the SS38 (from Sondrio) or the SS36 (from Milan, Lecco, Chiavenna), by train, Colico station in9 km , line 36 Milan-Lecco-Sondrio-Tirano, by bus line C10 Como-Colico. By boat, Domaso port (a5 km ) or Colico (a9km ).
In the Suricense area there are seven inhabited areas: Sorico center near the mouth of the Mera river, Albonico and Bugiallo halfway up the mountain, Dascio between the north and south basin of Lake Mezzola, the town in Poncetta in the Pian di Spagna , the La Punta settlement at the mouth of the Mera river and the Nigolo area on the border with Dubino . The varied morphological conformation of the municipality includes a large part of the Pian di Spagna , the southern front of Mount Berlinghera up to 1,936 meters above sea level and the hilly area below 600 metres, the river route of the Mera river and the western shore of Lake Mezzala . The municipality of Sorico therefore has7.26 km of lake coast and9.06 km of river coast. The fact that the municipal territory overlooks Lake Mezzola makes Sorico, together with Verceia, the natural entrance to Valchiavenna . The mountain and lake areas of Sorico, as a high example of pre-Alpine landscape ecosystems characterized by a very high degree of naturalness, are reported by several magazines specialized in tourism promotion. The flat and lake-river areas are defined as Italian wetlands on the Ramsar list .
The hilly area
The hilly area is a portion of territory between 200 and 600 meters above sea level and extends for approximately5 km (from Albonico to the center of Sorico) made fertile until a few decades ago by a continuous succession of terraces made up of dry stone walls. The constant and intelligent work of man has for centuries domesticated the mountains for his sustenance purposes. The advent of the typical well-being of the twentieth century and the migration of peasant interests from the mountains to the plains slowly led to the abandonment of the first portion of the mid-coast just above the banks of the Mera river . The cultivations carried out on the hills favored vines and various fruit cultivars; the presence of chestnut trees in this terraced altitude range was scarce . A curiosity is the presence even today of small scattered groupings of olive trees which make Sorico the northernmost sector in Europe for the propagation of the species. Of what should have been an example of tradition and ingenuity, no trace remains for those who observe the hill from below. The lush forest that covers the coast, mainly made up of black locust trees, has taken the place of the rich plateaus and has surrounded the oldest buildings of the typical rural centers ( Corzone , Cà Crusca , Gaggiolo , Gusbano , La pizza , Locofontana, Montagnola, Piazzo, Quessero, Selve, Sirana, Prati Meriggi, Vallate) transforming them into romantic ruins. Before the construction of carriage roads (twentieth century works) all the small hamlets were connected by mule tracks branching off from the main Antica Via Regina .
Origins of the name
The term “Sorico” can be traced back to various Latin terms but the one that is most descriptive of the town is ex auricus , from the verb exauricare , to disperse the air, to refresh , corresponding to the dialect sorà : because the place, sultry and hot, is airy from Breva .
History
In the territory of Sorico, the lower Valchiavenna and the lower Valtellina, the Celto-Rhaetian tribe of the Aneuniates was present in pre-Roman times. Under Roman domination their Vicus was Aneumium (translated: Holonius ) in the province of Cisalpine Gaul .
Administrative events from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age
Already attested as an autonomous municipal administrative entity in the 9th century, Sorico established the Republic of the Three Parishes of Lario together with Gravedona and Dongo . In 1335 the annexes to the Statutes of Como report the municipality of Surico as the community in charge of the maintenance of the stretch of via Regina between a specific fountain and the "terminum qui est supra tramittem qui venit a turre de Olonio versum Suricum et decisitur ad Veniollam" . As a member of the "Tre Pievi", Sorico had joint control of the first stretch of Lake Como from the 12th to the 16th century.
The Pieve di Sorico derives from 1432 with the definitive ruin of the primitive Pieve di Olonio , already attested in the 11th century within Olonio , the ancient village of the late Roman period called Aneunia which stood in the Pian di Spagna but which was continuously devastated by the floods of the Adda river . The municipality became the seat of the new parish on 9 November 1456. The parish priests of Sorico, as sanctioned by the Papal Bull of Callixtus III of 30 October 1455, still maintain the title of Archpriest today as the formal prestige of the parish deriving from its antiquity and its past of the Mother Church . In the period of maximum expansion of the Pieve di Sorico as the center of the ecclesiastical district, the communities of Dubino , Trezzone , Montemezzo , Piantedo , Colico , Cosio Valtellino , Regoledo , Rasura , Sacco , Pedesina , Gerola and Rasura were subject to it . Gradually over about three centuries (15th-18th centuries) all these localities obtained more and more autonomy until they finally broke away from Sorico to create separate communities.
In 1497 the territory of the Tre Pievi was granted as a fief by Ludovico Maria Sforza to Lucrezia Crivelli , while in 1545 it was enfeoffed to Medeghino . In 1580 , by concession of Philip II of Spain, the territory of the Tre Pievi, now a legacy of a medieval past, was converted into a county of the County of Como . In the same year, Sorico and the Tre Pievi fiefdom passed into the hands of the Gallio family , who exercised their feudal rights over the territory until beyond the mid- 18th century .
Despite its institutional importance at a supra-municipal level, in 1751 the center of Sorico appeared to constitute an extremely small community (only 40 inhabitants) but it had jurisdiction over a territory including numerous cassinaggi: "San Miro", Corsone, Gagiolo, Vallate, Dolo, Ronchi, Scagne, Fontana, Moscone, “Motti de Pedroni”, Meriggie, Quesser, “Quesser de Gossi”, Canina and Ciaffaboja.
A decree of administrative reorganization of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy dated 1807 sanctioned the annexation of Sorico to the municipality of Gera , a decision canceled by the Restoration .
Sorico as the state border of the Duchy of Milan
For centuries, as a border area between Milan and Grisons (from 1512 to 1797), Sorico was a crossroads of land and lake trade to and from northern Europe as well as a strategic military outpost. The strategic position as a border land allowed economic advantages as a fast passage for the lake transport of goods from the most industrialized areas of Europe (from Tuscany to Flanders , from the Po Valley), such as the ports of Genoa and Venice . Unfortunately, misfortunes also happen on the part of passing armies and mercenaries. In 1431 Sorico was remembered in the chronicle of the Battle of Delebio already as the border of the Milanese dominions and in 1515 Sorico was a battleground between the French who came down from the Alps for the Battle of Marignano and the Grisons by whom it was sacked and set on fire. The passage of the Landsknechts from Valtellina in 1630 to go and fight in the War of Succession of Mantua and Monferrato was disastrous because, as Alessandro Manzoni also recalls in The Betrothed, it brought the plague . The troops of Duke Henry II of Rohan sacked the Suricense and Tre Pievi territory in 1636 as retaliation against the Spanish raids in the dominions of the Duchy of Parma . Also in the seventeenth century the Spanish crown dominated the Milanese duchy and Sorico, being a state border, in this century experienced Iberian militarization ( 1535 - 1706 ). The imposing military garrison defending the northern border of the Duchy of Milan but also a bulwark of the Spanish Catholic faith towards the spread of Protestant doctrines beyond the Alps had as its headquarters the fort of Fuentes near Colico . At the time , during the government of the Republic of the Three Leagues , nearby Chiavenna had become an important center for the spread of Protestantism , where many Italian reformers and religious dissidents found the longed-for freedom of worship, denied to them in Italy after the persecutions of the Inquisition . Among them are: Agostino Mainardi , Pier Paolo Vergerio , Scipione Lentolo , Camillo Renato , Girolamo Zanchietc. The political and cultural climate was certainly very tense and it is not surprising that there was an unprecedented constant military presence in Northern Italy. Valtellina and consequently the upper Lake Como constituted in fact an important crossroads for communications and supplies between the Habsburg dominions of Spain and Austria , representing a corridor that allowed the connection between Spanish Lombardy and the Austrian dominions, as well as the entrance of Spanish troops directly on German territory (in the Spanish plans it would have allowed the United Provinces to be tightened in a pincer ), in particular in the context of the Thirty Years' War in which the branch of the Spanish Habsburgs was allied with the German collateral branch, engaged on the front of the struggle against the Protestant princes . During the most critical period of the Thirty Years' War , eight infantry companies, two thousand sappers and twenty artillery pieces were located within a radius of three kilometers from the Fort of Fuentes to the small fortresses all around such as the tower of Sorico, the tower of Fontanedo , the Adda fort, Torre di Curcio, the Torre del Passo, the Torrino di Borgofrancone. The worsening of events culminated with the Sacred Slaughterhouse : a massacre carried out by a group of Catholics against the reformed population , which took place in Valtellina in July 1620 , in the context of a pro-Spanish revolt against the Republic of the Three Leagues which then controlled the Valtellina territory. There is trace of the past Spanish presence today in various toponyms, in local surnames and in many terms of the strict dialect spoken in Bugiallo and in Albonico which in its phonetics and nouns used recalls the Catalan language .
Today, passing along the state road 402 Valeriana which connects the Ponte del Passo locality to Dubino (Nuova Olonio locality), a sign indicates, in addition to the change of province (Como - Sondrio), the ancient border which in the 18th century delimited the Duchy of Milan from the dominion of Graubünden as a state border. This imaginary line, then impossible to terminate on the ground given the continuous variation of the bed of the Adda river , was established (after centuries of territorial disputes) in 1763 with a decree of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria, then Duchess of Milan, and is represented with a straight line that it originates in Dascio and runs in the direction of the summit of Monte Legnone , continues along the west shore of Lake Mezzola up to San Fedelino , continues for two kilometers into Valchiavenna along the right bank of the Mera river and then climbs back up to the summit of Monte Berlinghera . The demarcation useful for the completion of the Teresian Land Registry (in German Mailänder Kataster) not only resolved the problem of the land delimitation between the two states but also sanctioned important fishing rights in Lake Mezzola, also divided between the Duchy of Milan which passed under the Austrian crown after the War of the Spanish Succession and the Grisons (from 1706 to 1797 ). The official border between states disappeared with the annexation of Valtellina and Valchiavennasco to the Cisalpine Republic , with the withdrawal of the Grisons possessions from the Italian-Swiss watershed and with the formation of the Helvetic Republic in the same year . Today the line is still valid for the cadastral confinement of the stretch of the Provinces of Como and Sondrio between the municipalities of Sorico, Dubino and Samolaco .
The military defense works between the 1st century BC and the 17th century.
The Spanish-built Fort d'Adda
Among the works of military genius present in the Suricense area are the ancient tower of Olonio and the castle of San Giorgio . The first, (demolished down to its foundations in 1523 and now completely disappeared) was of Roman origin and served for around 1500 years as a point for the collection of duties for the intense commercial exchanges on the lake between the Mera river and Valchiavenna . The castle of San Giorgio, whose mighty ruins can still be seen in the tangle of woods on the hill of the same name above the town of Sorico, dates back to the feudal age. The two monuments together with the Baradello castle in Como were donated to the Church of Como by Federico Barbarossa on 25 October 1167. In Pian di Spagna there is the 17th century Forte d'Adda, a well-preserved example of the Iberian military presence of Philip II of Spain .
The swamping of the Pian di Spagna and the reclamation works
«" The inhabitants of these lands rose up into the mountains in the summer to avoid fevers; the poor people remained in the plain to look after the herds that enjoyed free grazing there. And while in the Tuscan Maremme the average lifespan reaches twenty-two years, here it does not lasted only nineteen "»
In the summer of 1520, following heavy rains, the Adda river caused extensive damage in Valtellina and no less in Sorico. Until the disastrous event, the Adda in fact flowed into Lake Mezzola and during one night the mouth of the river changed, moving 2 km to the south and finding itself flowing just north of the current Ponte del Passo . The disastrous event marked the end of the Torre di Olonio which from then on will be remembered as a fortress in the middle of the Adda. Until 1520 the Adda river was navigable up to Dubino in Valtellina where the Porto area still exists today. The swamping of the surrounding agricultural areas was inevitable, so much so that Sorico experienced a period of slow and inexorable decline characterized by the almost total loss of agricultural livelihoods deriving from the Olonio Plan (ancient name for the Pian di Spagna). A microclimate was established in the vast alluvial plain which favored the continuous presence of unhealthy malarial swamps which were also created due to a natural rise of Lake Como. The presence of man was so difficult in the Pian di Spagna that the average lifespan was estimated at 19 years; even less than in the Maremma marshes where the average lifespan was 23 years. It is even estimated that during the Spanish military presence malaria claimed more victims among the soldiers of the Fort of Fuentes than during its sieges. It is in this period (16th-19th centuries) that the people of the plain moved to the mountain and hillsides, founding various residential areas in the nearby areas and on the paths to Albonico and Bugiallo , focusing agriculture on the cultivation of terraces supported by dry stone walls . In the late spring and summer period the inhabitants of Sorico resorted to transhumance towards the mountain pastures of the upper Valchiavenna to escape from the malaria of the lake marshes. Transhumance was practiced constantly until the mid-1950s. XX. In the village the event which involved the entire population was called Cargà i Alp ("charging the mountain pastures"). The return to the village was scheduled for the last week of September. Many Suricensi families have inherited a particular and centuries-old right to graze their livestock at high altitude in the municipality of Madesimo. Thus, a very close bond with the territories and with the inhabitants of Madesimo and the entire Spluga Valley is maintained today . After the rectification of the Adda under the design of the engineer Giuseppe Cusi during the last years of the Lombardy-Veneto Kingdomthe Adda river was made to flow into the lake no longer in Sorico but on the border with the municipality of Colico. Thus the first reclamation work was carried out which allowed rational water management. Upon completion of the impressive embankment and canalization work, still visible today, Pian di Spagna slowly returned to being cultivable and subsequently habitable. The reclamation works continued sporadically until 1915, also carried out by the Opera di San Luigi Guanella of Nuova Olonio. From 1950 to 1954, with an intervention by the Ministry of Public Works within the Pian di Spagna, the last marshes in the locality of La Punta , the ancient mouth of the Adda river before 1858, were drained and canalized. The canal that survived the reclamation works Borgofrancone .
Events of the 20th century
In the Sorico valley , in the Piazzo area, one of the first hydroelectric plants on Lake Como was installed in 1905, consisting of two alternators from Brown, Boveri & Cie and two turbines from Riva Calzoni , technologically advanced at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first for civil service of the town and then of the industries of Colico. In 1928 the "Tre Pievi" musical body of Sorico was founded, its name chosen in honor of the noble past of the town. In 1929 the municipality of Sorico incorporated the municipality of Bugiallo of which it became the capital. On 8 August 1951 the historic center of the town was hit by a flood from the Sorico torrent. The disastrous event caused one victim and in a few hours the torrent invaded the archpriest church of S. Stefano with debris. It is important to remember that the center of the town had several shocking flood events of the Sorico stream over the centuries. In fact, before 1783, the year in which it was decided to divert it into the current riverbed, it flowed in what is now the Roggia canal almost on the border with Gera Lario. During the night of September 1, 1755, the peak of the torrent's flood devastation occurred with the semi-destruction of Palazzo Giulini and the church of Sant'Orsola which stood north of today's Via Roma.
The First and Second World Wars
Sorico, for a short period during the First World War, returned to being a strategic military point as in past centuries. The vast municipal territory extended then as today geographically into Valchiavenna and Monte Berlinghera itself represents the southern barrier of the valley. At the outbreak of the Great War there was fear that the armed forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire could break into Italy through an invasion from Valchiavenna and Val Bregaglia. On the slopes of Monte Berlinghera, in the Brentalone area, various military observation structures were thus created, taking advantage of the particular panoramic view of the place which ranges from Chiavenna to the Spluga Pass (the first to11 km and the second a32 km as the crow flies). These are mostly several powder magazines and observation points now in ruins but clearly visible, dug into the rock deep in the mountain. The road that goes up from Albonico towards Brentalone is still called the "military road" today. The route, with a caliber useful for the easy transport and positioning of cannons and howitzers, represents with its dry containment walls, a living testimony of the superbly preserved Northern Frontier .
After the signing of the Badoglio Proclamation on 8 September 1943, the town of Sorico experienced an agitated period. Firefights near the Ponte del Passo , erroneous shelling towards the town, aerial machine-gunning and stories of partisan espionage characterized the end and immediate post-war period in Sorico. During the final phases of the Second World War, the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade "Luigi Clerici" commanded by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle took garrison on the slopes of Mount Berlinghera and was supported with the help of some local families called the Puecher detachment in memory of the partisan Giancarlo Puecher Passavalli . In the town we remember the presence during the war of the Partisans Angelo Porta, Renato Tettamanti, Aldo Cantoni, Luigi Corbetta, Antonio Ghioldi, the political commissioner Michele Moretti , Giuseppina Tuissi , Alfonso Lissi and Guglielmo Cantoni with the battle name "Sandrino Menefrego" known as last partisan guarding Mussolini the night before his execution.
With the radio message "Francesca greets Gina" the Brigade, a leading figure in the Italian Resistance , requested and obtained a massive British air supply near the Monte Berlinghera mountain pasture on the night of 5 April 1945 . The parachuted material was 20 heavy machine guns, three hundred Stens , mortars and ammunition. Therefore armed and equipped, on 25 April 1945 the brigade stopped the German column in Dongo in which Benito Mussolini had joined , who was arrested.
Those excited days of '45 in the village are remembered in the stories of the elderly curious anecdotes centered on episodes of the Resistance, on the Gold of Dongo and on the visit to Sorico in 1945 by Winston Churchill who behind the false name of Colonel Waltham he came to Lake Como in search of letters and documents with Mussolini. In fact, although he was captured in Dongo, part of the German military column under the command of Captain Hans Fallmeyer passed through Sorico.
«During the journey, the German Commander began to become very worried at the sight of the populations of the lake villages waving festive red banners and handkerchiefs. Furthermore, Michele Moretti managed very cleverly to convince Fallmeyer that the Ponte del Passo , at the beginning of the Val Chiavenna, had previously been mined by the partisans"
( Giusto Perretta, The truth , ACTAC, Como 1990 p. 138 )
The entire story of these documents will be called the Churchill-Mussolini Correspondence .
The steamship "Lariano" in service in the Colico port
Many remember the aerial strafing that occurred on March 14, 1945 against the steamers
"Lombardy" (length:63.50 m ; length:12.30 m ; displacement :237 t ; total capacity: 1 000 passengers),
"Volta" (length:54.17 m ; length:10.86m ; displacement:267 t ; total capacity: 650 passengers),
"Lariano" (length:53.86m ; length:11.14m ; displacement:227 t ; total capacity: 650 passengers)
stranded on the bow in the shallow seabed and camouflaged at the mouth of the Mera river in the La Punta area : during the excited day at the end of winter an Anglo-American air force, keeping a safe distance from the machine guns of the Montecchio Nord Fort in Colico, attacked the three boats; the targets are easy and above all defenseless, and the aerial strafing passes were numerous, until the steamers were completely engulfed in flames. Volunteer firefighters from Menaggio and Gravedona rushed to the scene , but nothing could be done to save the ships whose fire lasted all night. The wrecks were then removed by the "Lariana" shipping company only in 1947. Another event was the two bullets fired by mistake in the direction of Sorico on 27 April 1945 from the guns of the Montecchio Nord Fort in Colico . The two artillery shots were fired from Colico after the fort was conquered by the partisans. The action was intimidating against Mussolini's German military column and in any case did not cause any damage as the bullets exploded upon impact in the valley of the stream.
Sorico today
Today Sorico presents itself as a small summer tourist center offering, together with Gera Lario, many possibilities related to water sports. There are no industries in the municipal area and there are several agricultural companies. Fortunately, the municipal territory, having never been the subject of massive civil and industrial construction, maintains the natural environments and ecosystems almost intact , which are now more protected than ever even with the presence of the Pian di Spagna - Lago di Mezzola nature reserve created after the Ramsar Convention and included in the relevant Ramsar list . This list, which includes 51 areas for a total of 60 052 hectares, was drawn up by the Ministry of the Environment. , This wetland is protected by supporting the principles of sustainable development and the conservation of biodiversity, providing inspiration for an increasingly present ecological tourism favored by the exceptional nature of the places, through the practice of widespread hospitality, organic agricultural production, guided cultural visit. The cross-border connection to Switzerland is fundamental for the local economy.
Symbols
The coat of arms and the banner were granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 9 February 1990.
«Silver, with three red crosses , arranged in a band. External ornaments from the Municipality.»
The coat of arms is ancient and, like those of Gravedona and Dongo , testifies to Sorico's historical belonging to the Republic of the Three Parishes.
The banner is a red cloth.
Monuments and places of interest
Religious architecture
Plebeian archpriest church of Santo Stefano , open daily with Holy Mass officiated;
Church of San Miro , Sanctuary which houses the remains of San Miro ;
Oratory of San Fedele , a small oratory built on the site of the martyrdom of St. Fedele;
The Ca' Redunda. Former oratory of the Blessed Virgin by the river and now a private home
Oratory of S. Gaetano (Bugiallo)
Church of S. Giovanni Battista (Bugiallo)
Church of San Giovanni Battista, in Bugiallo ;
Oratory of San Gaetano, in Bugiallo;
Church of San Sebastiano in Albonico ;
Church of San Biagio in Dascio ;
Gesiolo of San Miro
Church of the Good Shepherd [13]
Civil architecture
Palazzo Giulini , a noble villa in the center of the town now in a state of ruin;
Ponte del Passo , road bridge over the Mera river;
Military architecture
Forte d'Adda : The building, now used for agricultural purposes, stands in the Pian di Spagna . During the 17th and 18th centuries it was a Spanish military outpost gravitating in the fortress system of the Fort of Fuentes .
Torre Nuova : The building, originally with a square base, was built with stone ashlars bonded with aerial mortar. There are no certain documents on its construction, but historians agree that its past use was a point of control or collection of duties on the Antica Via Regina , which runs a little further south . In the sixties of the twentieth century the tower was purchased by private individuals and renovated; further living spaces were added around the base.
Pian di Spagna , nature reserve;
Mera River ;
Coastal road Ponte del Passo-Dascio
Dascio-San Fedelino historical path . Natural approach route to the Oratory of San Fedelino;
Monte Berlinghera , whose peak at 1,930 meters above sea level is the highest point in the municipality. Between 1,500 and 1,700 m there is the Pescedo mountain pasture ;
Stagno di Peschiera , a small lake of glacial origin at 586 meters above sea level north of Albonico in the northernmost sector of the province of Como;
Antica Via Regina and Via Francisca , ancient roads that connected north and south Lombardy;
Sasso di Dascio , panoramic point on Lake Mezzola above the town of Dascio;
Pian di Spagna , one of the most important nature reserves in northern Italy;
San Fedelino beach , natural and uncontaminated beach on Lake Mezzola;
La Punta , the northernmost coastal strip of Lake Como;
Lake Mezzola
Soric
Via dei Monti Lariani
Traditions and folklore
Catholic religious feast of St. Anthony the Abbot every January 17th in the church of San Miro with distribution of blessed loaves. In the afternoon, means of transport such as wagons, cars and motorbikes are blessed in front of the church of S. Stefano.
Catholic religious festival of San Sebastiano in the hamlet of Albonico on the 2nd Sunday of January.
Catholic religious anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes with night-time torchlight procession in the historic center every 11 February in front of the archpriest church.
Feast of the Catholic religious of San Biagio every 1st Sunday of February in the Dascio hamlet with procession on the bank of the Mera river .
Marziroo every March 1st throughout the entire municipal area.
Vespers of San Marco every 25th April in the church of San Miro . In ancient times rogations were held and silkworms were blessed.
Catholic religious festival of San Miro every first Sunday of May around the church of San Miro .
San Miro Fair every second Friday of May in the central square of the town.
Catholic religious festival dedicated to the Madonna of Bugiallo with procession in the town center of Bugiallo every 2nd Sunday of May.
Catholic religious anniversary of Corpus Christi on the first Sunday after Pentecost . On the occasion of the solemnity of Corpus Domini, a consecrated host is carried in procession in the historic center of Sorico, enclosed in a monstrance under a canopy, and exposed to public adoration. It is the only procession of the liturgical year that is of obligation, according to canon law.
"Party in the pine forest". Party with lunch and games in the pine forest of the Bugiallo mountains every 3rd Sunday of July.
Catholic religious festival dedicated to San Bartolomeo in the small church in the mountains above Bugiallo every 24 August.
Albonico village festival every penultimate week of September organized by the "Friends of Albonico".
Catholic religious festival of the Archangel Michael at the church of San Miro on the last Sunday of September.
"The colors of autumn" party in the center of Sorico with an exhibition of typical products and local antiques. Every third Sunday of October.
The Fair of the Dead of Sorico every 1-2 November in the historic center.
Every year the "Fair of the Dead" takes place with a market that takes place in the historic center on the commemorative days of All Saints and the deceased on 1st and 2nd November. The fair of the dead has ancient origins: the tradition of a late autumn market that allowed the inhabitants of Sorico and its surroundings to stock up on supplies and livestock for the upcoming winter is lost in the past. The Sorico fair is certainly derived from the market that once took place in Olonio, the disappeared village located in what is now Pian di Spagna. Built at an important crossroads of roads, a flourishing commercial activity developed almost naturally in Olonio, as the favorable logistical situation allowed a constant meeting of goods and people.
The official ratification of the establishment of a market in Holonius was issued by Emperor Lothair I in favor of Hilduin , abbot of Saint-Denis in Paris . With this document the Emperor granted the abbey, which had large possessions in the upper Lake Como, the right to establish a market in Haenohim (Olonio) , on Lake Como in Valtellina. All this in the year 840 so the Sorico fair is almost 1200 years old. The period of the year in which to hold the fair was then established in 1281 by the Statutes of Como, which established three days of holiday in the period of All Saints' Day in which the market could be held, which a consul of justice and a ambassador elected by the Podestà of Como. The disappearance of Olonio, buried by the debris of the Adda river and the rising of Lake Como in the 15th century , did not prevent the perpetuation of the market tradition, which later moved from its original location to Sorico. Despite undergoing downsizing over the centuries in both space and time (the abbot GM Stampa in the book Atti del Beato Miro of 1724 reports the attempt of the Conto Giulini to revitalize the market by bringing from two to three market days to increase the miserable economy of the country), the fair still continues to be a fixed point in the calendar that marks the life of Sorico. In spring the so-called "San Miro" fair is held.
National Unity and Armed Forces Day every Sunday following November 4th.
Catholic religious festival of the Immaculate Conception every 8 December with procession in the historic center.
Catholic Patronal Feast of Saint Stephen every 26 December.
Night-time torchlight procession on the path to the church of San Miro and prayer vigil every December 31st.
King Journey extended a welcoming hand of thanks to Shags Thistledown (sharonj.brumer) for agreeing to share a dance with him. And for selecting that dress to wear too!
See all of my Renaissance Festival photos at: www.flickr.com/photos/138805757@N04/albums/72157716013224098
The Renaissance Festival will take place from September 25-October 4 and benefit the Making Strides campaign of the American Cancer Society.
Six incredibly crafted regions, chock-full of event entertainment, tournaments, contests, classes, shopping and more! See the event calendar at slrenaissancefestival.com/events/month/ so you can see what is happening.
September 2020
(See links). Friend & I did a LOT of planning for this trip since we would be gone for a week. Mammoth Cave is a mysterious limestone cave that has fascinated people for 4,000 years.
The Extended Historic Tour was the 1st one we decided to do. Later at the end of the trip we were glad we picked this one as our 1st cave tour.
Enjoy this Historic Tour with a bonus side trip to one of the sites of the famous 1840s Mammoth Cave experiment to treat consumption. This tour is ideal for people who want a Historic Tour and have a little extra time to spend in the cave. Portions of this tour are also seen on the Violet City Lantern, Star Chamber and Gothic Avenue Tours.
Duration: 2.25 hours
Distance: 2 miles (3.2 km)
Total Stairs: 540, including 155 at Mammoth Dome
Difficulty: Moderate
The Nation’s First Tuberculosis Hospital Was Built Inside a Cave - Atlas Obscura
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Mammoth Cave National Park is also more than just the home to the longest cave system in the world. It is a place for hiking, biking, horseback riding, canoeing, and camping on over 52,000 acres in south central Kentucky.
Mammoth Cave - Wikipedia
Over 400 miles of the Mammoth Cave’s interconnected passages have been surveyed since Native Americans first began to explore it between 2,000 and 8,000 years ago. The world’s longest cave system, Mammoth Cave is 100 miles longer than the planet’s second and third-longest cave systems.
Mammoth Cave - Atlas Obscura
Rolling hills, deep river valleys, and the world's longest known cave system. Mammoth Cave National Park is home to thousands of years of human history and a rich diversity of plant and animal life, earning it the title of UNESCO World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Mammoth Cave National Park is a national park in south-central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. With more than 400 miles explored, and one of the oldest tour attractions in North America.
Length: 426 miles
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In 1926, a group of private citizens formed Mammoth Cave National Park Association to protect the park. Mammoth Cave National Park was officially dedicated as a national park by 1941. It then became a World Heritage Site in 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve in 1990.
Mammoth Cave
1 Mammoth Cave Parkway
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. 072323.
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