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Gressoney-Saint-Jean
Gressoney-Saint-Jean (Gressoney wae, Greschòney Zer Chilchu; frp, Gressonèy-Sèn-Dzan; german: Kressenau Sankt Johann) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Geography The town is situated in a valley formed by the torrent Lys which is fed by the Lys glacier. History, Walser culture and language Though Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité form two separate ''comunes'' they form a Walser German cultural unity known as or in (or simply ), the local Walser German dialect, or in German. Image:Castello di Savoia - Gressoney-St.Jean.jpg, The Savoy castle File:Plaque inondation Gressoney-St-Jean.JPG, Memorial plaque of the 1868 flood written in German and Italian In 1868, the Lys flooded the village. From 1928 until 1946 the two were united into one commune, officially named Gressoney, which from 1939 onward was Italianized as ''Gressonei''. After WWII, the two former communes were reconstituted. An example of Greschòneyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Margherita (Gressoney-Saint-Jean)
Villa Margherita is a historic villa situated in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy. History The villa, commissioned by barons Beck-Peccoz, was designed by German engineers and erected in 1888. Between 1889 and 1906, the barons hosted several members of the House of Savoy in this home, until these too, fascinated by the beauty of the Lys Valley, built a residence of their own there, the Savoy Castle. The villa was named after Margherita of Savoy. In 1968, the property was acquired by the commune of Gressoney-Saint-Jean, and converted into the local town hall. Description The property comprises several buildings, including the villa proper, the gatekeepers' quarters and the old stables. The villa, which stands on a grey granite pedestal, features ornate decorations that includes spires, wooden gables, corbels and parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy Castle (Gressoney-Saint-Jean)
Savoy Castle ( it, Castel Savoia; french: Château Savoie) is a historic residence situated in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy. History The villa, commissioned by Margherita of Savoy, was designed by Italian architect Emilio Stramucci and built between 1899 and 1904, with the first stone being laid on August 24, 1899. Margherita of Savoy took the decision to build her own residence in Gressoney after being fascinated by the beauty of the Lys Valley during her several stays there as host in the villa of Barons Peck-Beccoz, later renamed into Villa Margherita in her honor. In 1981, the property was acquired by the Aosta Valley region. Description The property comprises several buildings, including the castle proper, the Villa Belvedere and the Romitaggio Carducci. The castle is a three-storey eclectic villa characterized by the presence of five towers. The ground floor housed the living quarters, while the noble floor housed the royal apartments and the second floor was reserved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy Castle Alpine Botanical Garden
The Savoy Castle Alpine Botanical Garden ( it, Giardino Botanico Alpino Castel Savoia, french: Jardin botanique alpin Château Savoie) (1,000 m2) is an alpine botanical garden located at 1350 meters altitude on the grounds of Savoy Castle, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Aosta Valley, Italy. It is open daily in the warmer months. The garden was established in 1990 within the castle's park, and is operated by the government of Autonomous Region Aosta Valley. The garden focuses on the aesthetic appearance of its species which are planted in rocky beds. Species include '' Aquilegia alpina'', ''Arnica montana'', ''Epilobium angustifolium'', ''Gentiana'', '' Leontopodium alpinum'', ''Lilium martagon'', '' Rhododendron ferrugineum'', ''Saxifraga'', ''Sempervivum arachnoideum'', '' Sempervivum montanum'', and ''Trollius europaeus''. The park was created in 1898 by Queen Margherita of Savoy. See also * List of botanical gardens in Italy This list of botanical gardens in Italy is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aosta Valley
, Valdostan or Valdotainian it, Valdostano (man) it, Valdostana (woman)french: Valdôtain (man)french: Valdôtaine (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = Official languages , population_blank1 = Italian French , demographics_type1 = Citizenship , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = Italian , demographics1_info1 = 95% , demographics1_title2 = , demographics1_info2 = , demographics1_title3 = , demographics1_info3 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , area_code_type = ISO 3166 code , area_code = IT-23 , blank_name_sec1 = GDP (nominal) , blank_info_sec1 = €4.9 billion (2018) , blank1_name_sec1 = GDP per capita , blank1_info_sec1 = €38,900 (2018) , blank2_name_sec1 = HDI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lys (Dora Baltea)
The Lys (Walser German: ''Liisu'' or ''Lyesu'') is a small river (classified as a '' torrente''). Geography It flows from the Lys Glacier on the south side of the Monte Rosa massif, at the foot of Vincent Pyramid, elevation , and runs through the Gressoney Valley, flanked by a road, through the following municipalities: *Gressoney-La-Trinité *Gressoney-Saint-Jean * Gaby *Issime *Fontainemore *Lillianes *Perloz It converges with the Dora Baltea (fr. ''Doire baltée'') as a right tributary at Pont-Saint-Martin. Its left-side tributaries are Avant-Cir, Glassit, Loo, Mos, Niel, Pacoulla, and Tourrison. From the right it receives: Rû de Nantay, Stolen and Valbona. Gallery Lys river springs.jpg, The sources of the Lys at the Lys glacier in the Monte Rosa mountain massif, below the Vincent Pyramid and close to the giant Lyskamm (4.533 m) Lys vicino a Gaby.jpg, The river close to Gaby in the Aosta Valley Pont-Saint-Martin-Ponte-DSCF8380.JPG, The Roman bridge of Pont-Saint-Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gressoney-La-Trinité
Gressoney-La-Trinité (Gressoney wae, Greschòney Drifaltigkeit or ; frp, Gressonèy-La-Trinità) is a town or ''commune'' and renowned alpine resort at the foot of Monte Rosa in the Val de Gressoney, which is part of the Aosta Valley region of Northwest Italy. It features one of the most scenic alpine ski resorts in the Aosta Valley. Geography Gressoney-La-Trinité is located in a side valley of the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. At 1,627 metres (5,338 ft) above sea level, it has the highest elevation of any city in the Gressoney Valley. History left, Inscription in Walser German dedicated to Henrich Welf, a native of Gressoney-La-Trinité, president of the '' Walser Kulturzentrum. '' Germanic people, known as the Walser, settled in the upper Lys Valley from the 12th century onwards. Historically, Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité have been two separate ''communes''. From 1928 until 1946, the two communes were unified and officially named Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gressoney (AO)
Gressoney () was a commune of Aosta Valley in north-west Italy. It was created in 1928 by the union of the two existing communes of Gressoney-La-Trinité and Gressoney-Saint-Jean. From 1939 onwards its official name was Italianized as Gressonei. The commune was suppressed in 1946 when the two former communes were reconstituted. References :''This article was originally translated frothis versionof '' :it:Gressoney'', its counterpart in the ''Italian Wikipedia The Italian Wikipedia ( it, Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of , , it has articles and more than registered accounts. It is t ...''.'' Former municipalities of Aosta Valley {{aosta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walser German
Walser German (german: Walserdeutsch) and Walliser German (, locally ) are a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in parts of Switzerland (Valais, Ticino, Grisons), Italy (Piedmont, Aosta Valley), Liechtenstein (Triesenberg, Planken), and Austria (Vorarlberg). Usage of the terms Walser and Walliser has come to reflect a difference of geography, rather than language. The term ''Walser'' refers to those speakers whose ancestors migrated into other Alpine valleys in medieval times, whereas ''Walliser'' refers only to a speaker from Upper Valais – that is, the upper Rhone valley. In a series of migrations during the Late Middle Ages, people migrated out of the Upper Valais, across the higher valleys of the Alps. History The Alemannic immigration to the Rhone valley started in the 8th century. There were presumably two different immigration routes, from what is now the Bernese Oberland, that led to two main groups of Walliser dialects. In the 12th or 13th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy Castle
Savoy Castle, also known as Savoy Mansion ( hu, link=no, Savoyai Kastély), is an 18th-century Baroque style château located in Ráckeve, Hungary. This property is currently being used as a hotel and restaurant, and its reception halls can also be rented for special events. History Construction of the spacious home was begun in 1702 at the commissioning of Prince Eugene of Savoy and finished in approximately 1722. Prince Eugene had acquired Csepel Island in 1698, and he then began the planning process of this "maison de plaisance". Prince Eugene commissioned Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, a student of the Roman Carlo Fontana, to design this residence. Seven letters from Hildebrandt to the prince remain in the archives of the Gonzaga family in Mantua, and they provide planning and construction information about the mansion. The building has side wings which were completed in 1714, and the whole construction process was finished around 1720 to 1722. The prince did not reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italianization
Italianization ( it, italianizzazione; hr, talijanizacija; french: italianisation; sl, poitaljančevanje; german: Italianisierung; el, Ιταλοποίηση) is the spread of Italian culture, language and identity by way of integration or assimilation. It is also known for a process organized by the Kingdom of Italy to force cultural and ethnic assimilation of the native populations living, primarily, in the former Austro-Hungarian territories that were transferred to Italy after World War I in exchange for Italy having joined the Triple Entente in 1915; this process was mainly conducted during the period of Fascist rule between 1922 and 1943. Regions and populations affected Between 1922 and the beginning of World War II, the affected people were the German-speaking and Ladin-speaking populations of Trentino-Alto Adige, and Slovenes and Croats in the Julian March. The program was later extended to areas annexed during World War II, affecting Slovenes in the Province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Savoy
The House of Savoy ( it, Casa Savoia) was a royal dynasty that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, the family grew in power from ruling a small Alpine county north-west of Italy to absolute rule of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1713 to 1720, when they were handed the island of Sardinia, over which they would exercise direct rule from then onward. Through its junior branch of Savoy-Carignano, the House of Savoy led the Italian unification in 1860 and ruled the Kingdom of Italy until 1946; they also briefly ruled the Kingdom of Spain in the 19th century. The Savoyard kings of Italy were Victor Emmanuel II, Umberto I, Victor Emmanuel III, and Umberto II. The last monarch reigned for a few weeks before being deposed following the institutional referendum of 1946, after which the Italian Republic was proclaimed. History The name derives from the historical region of Savoy in the Alpine region between what is now France and Italy. Over ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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