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Cedegolo ( Camunian: ) is an Italian ''
The comune of Cedegolo was created in 1797, at the fall of the
* Parish of Saint Jerome, from the early 17th century. The altar is by Pietro Ramus.
Historical photos - Intercam
Historical photos - Lombardia Beni Culturali
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comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' of 1,258 inhabitants in Val Camonica
Val Camonica (also ''Valcamonica'' or Camonica Valley, Eastern Lombard: ''Al Camònega'') is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. It extends about from the Tonale Pass to Corna Trentapassi, in the ...
, province of Brescia
The Province of Brescia ( it, provincia di Brescia; Brescian: ) is a Province in the Lombardy administrative region of northern Italy. It has a population of some 1,265,964 (as of January 2019) and its capital is the city of Brescia.
With an ar ...
, in Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
, northern Italy
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.
Geography
The village of Cedegolo is located in a narrow gorge formed byOglio
The Oglio (; Latin ''Ollius'', or ''Olius''; Lombard ''Òi''; Cremonese ''Ùi'') is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy. It is long.
In the hierarchy of the Po's tributaries, with its of length, it occupies the 2nd pla ...
river, on its eastern side. It is crossed by two streams: the Val Gravagna, further north, and the Poia, to the south.
History
The comune of Cedegolo was created in 1797, at the fall of the Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, ...
, but became a hamlet of Grevo in 1798.
The bridge over the river Poglia (Pôya in eastern Lombard), in the center of the village, was completed in 1592.
From Cedegolo in July 1866 the fourth regiment of volunteers in Italy and the Second Battalion of bersaglieri moved to enter Austrian Trentino, through the Lake Arno.
Main sights
* Parish of Saint Jerome, from the early 17th century. The altar is by Pietro Ramus.
Culture
The skötöm are incamunian dialect
Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are Be ...
nicknames, sometimes personal, elsewhere showing the characteristic features of a community. The one which characterize the people of Cedegolo is ''Lìca-tóncc''.
Cedegolo is one of the few toponyms which in Eastern Lombard requires the determinative article: el Sedegòl.
At least until the second half of the twentieth century the young men of Cedegolo followed the tradition of "tunà" (literally: to shoot) or "fa saltà le tòle" ("to make boxes jump") on the St. Jerome calendar day. It was a pretty dangerous activity involving controlled explosions of acetylene
Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula and structure . It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in its pure ...
gas, prepared by mixing water with calcium carbide in a hole in the ground covered by a suitable container.
References
External links
Historical photos - Intercam
Historical photos - Lombardia Beni Culturali
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