Cles (; Nones: ''Clés'' or ''Cliès'') is a town and ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' in

Trentino Trentino (), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento (; ; ), is an Autonomous province#Italy, autonomous province of Italy in the Northern Italy, country's far north. Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the Regions of Italy, region of Tren ...

, in the

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol ( ; ; ), often known in English as Trentino-South Tyrol or by its shorter Italian name Trentino-Alto Adige, is an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy, located in the ...

region of northern

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. It is the main town of

Val di Non The Non Valley ( or ; Nones: ''Val de Nòn''; ; ) is a valley mainly in the Trentino. Moreover, the (also known as simply , in italian), a subregion, consists of three primarily German-speaking municipalities in the province of South Tyrol, No ...

. It is the main town of and is located in

. Monte di Cles and

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(

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) are located to the west of the residential area, while Lake Santa Giustina is on the east.

History

Prior to

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, Cles was part of the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...

. After the war, the region was ceded to Italy with the dissolution of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy.

Lake Santa Giustina

Lake Santa Giustina is an

artificial lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...

which was created by the dike on the creek Noce. The dam was completed in 1950, is 152 metres high and it was the highest dam in

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at the time. The lake can contain up to about 180 million cubic metres water, which feeds the

turbine A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical ...

s of the hydroelectric plant in Taio. The lake is named after the location where the dam is placed, which in turn is named after an ancient hermitage of which only ruins are left, covered by a natural hollow of the rock.

Tabula clesiana

The '' Tabula clesiana'' is a bronze plate measuring that was discovered in 1869 at Campi Neri in Cles. It contains the edict of the Emperor Claudius of 46 AD, which granted Roman citizenship to the Alpine peoples of the Anauni, Sinduni and Tulliasses. It is kept at the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...

. The Tabula is an important evidence of the rapid assimilation by the Roman world of the Alpine peoples of farmers-hunters; but also from the point of view of the

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the first evidence of the introduction of ''delatores'' in the fiscal controversy.A translation of the Tabula
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Notable people

* Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, (1721 – 1782) painter *

Bernardo Clesio Bernardo Clesio (; 1 March 1484 – 30 July 1539) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal, bishop, diplomat, humanist and botanist. Born in Cles, in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent, today Trentino, he graduated from the University of Bo ...

, (1484 – 1539) cardinal and diplomat * Vladimir Barbu, competitive diver (b. 1998) * Letizia Paternoster, road and track cyclist (b. 1999) * Andrea Pinamonti, footballer (b. 1999) * Luca de Aliprandini, alpine skier (b. 1990) * Letizia Borghesi, cyclist (b. 1998) * Nadia Battocletti, runner (b. 2000)

Gallery

File:Cles - chiesa - 01.JPG, Santa Maria Assunta Parish church File:Chiesa di San Rocco a Cles (TN).jpg,

Saint Roch Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invo ...

Church File:Cles - castello - 01.JPG,

Cles Castle Cles (; Nones dialect, Nones: ''Clés'' or ''Cliès'') is a town and ''Communes of Trentino, comune'' in Trentino, in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of northern Italy. It is the main town of Val di Non. It is the main town of and is lo ...

References

External links

Official website
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