| Pinzolo | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Trentino Alto Adige | |
| Territory | Val Rendena | |
| Altitude | 770 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 69 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 3.118 (2015) | |
| Name inhabitants | Pinzolesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0465 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 38086 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Saint Lawrence | |
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Pinzolo is a center of the Trentino Alto Adige.
To know
Geographical notes
It is the main center of the Val Rendena in the Trentino area. It is 57 km away. from Trento and 103 from Brescia.
Background
The history of Pinzolo does not record events of great importance; it is a story common to the mountain centers dedicated to agriculture and livestock. The documents in the archives speak of a center where the life of the people was deeply linked to religious tradition. In Pinzolo there is the presence of one of the first Compagnie dei Battuti in the region. The Battuti were lay people gathered in a religious congregation who practiced long and severe penances and long prayers, as well as dedicating themselves to works of assistance and charity.
The events of the First World War touched the town very closely, since the Adamello was the scene of important war actions. The annexation to Italy did not mitigate the country's chronic poverty, nor that of Val Rendena in general. Emigration abroad and to other areas of Italy became massive and made the figure of the knife grinder from Val Rendena known throughout the world, to whom Pinzolo dedicated a monument.
Since the 1960s. with the economic boom, a certain tourist fervor begins. Madonna of Campiglio, which had already had a certain appreciation as a holiday resort for the Habsburg noble class (the empress Sissi also stayed there with the emperor of Austria), definitively launches itself as one of the most important ski centers in the Alps; Pinzolo benefits from this by initially developing summer tourism for families, thanks to the beauty of its position in view of the Brenta, Adamello and Presanella, then proposing itself as a winter tourism center and developing, like Madonna di Campiglio, a good equipment of ski lifts and ski slopes.
It can be said that now its economy enjoys a quiet prosperity thanks to the development of both summer and winter tourist activity which makes it one of the most renowned centers in the sector throughout the Trentino.
How to orient yourself
Pinzolo: full screen map.How to get
By plane
- 1 Bolzano-Dolomites Airport (IATA: BZO) (6 km from the center of Bolzano), ☎ 39 0471 255 255, fax: 39 0471 255 202.
open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from Lugano is Rome with Etihad Regional (by Darwin Air). At certain times of the year, the Lauda Air company connects the city with Vienna once a week. On the other hand, charter flights are more numerous. - 2 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 3 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city is located at the bus station (number 23), while the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Charter only
open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from By car
It is crossed by the state road 239 Dimaro - Tione di Trento
• Exit "Rovereto Sud" towards Sarche, Tione, Campiglio (from the tollbooth about 70 km in Pinzolo) Brenner motorway
• Exit "San Michele all'Adige" towards Mezzolombardo, Cles, Dimaro, Madonna di Campiglio (from the tollbooth 67 km in Campiglio) Brenner motorway
• Recommended exit Trento Centro in the direction of Riva del Garda, Tione, Pinzolo (60 km from the toll booth) Brenner motorway
Exit "Brescia Est" on the Milan-Venice motorway towards Lake Idro, Tione, Madonna di Campiglio
On the train
Railway station of Trento or Brescia, then continuing by bus.
By bus
Direct connections from Trento, Milan, Brescia.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Church of San Vigilio. Halfway between Pinzolo and Carisolo you meet the church of San Vigilio, isolated with its small cemetery that surrounds it and makes it a place of intense suggestion when at night it stands out in the dark illuminated by beams of yellow light that underline the power of the figures of the Macabre dance with which Simone Baschenis, from the well-known family of itinerant painters from Bergamo who worked so much in Trentino, frescoed the southern outer wall. The date 31 October 1539 and the artist's signature also sign the series of frescoes of the Seven Deadly Sins.
- The theme of the Macabre Dance, more present abroad than in Italy where it is rather unusual, intends to remind the observer of the large spirit level represented by Death enthroned and crowned, absolute and invincible Lady who spares none of the characters represented in the long procession (22 meters by 2 meters high) of the fresco: Pontiff, cardinal, bishop, emperor, king, queen, doctor, warrior , beggar, young, old, rich, nun, friar, child, gentlewoman, all seized by coarse skeletons that govern the Dance, whose procession is closed by the Archangel Michael and the Devil.
- The characters are each described by verses placed below the figure, while the skeletons carry scrolls on which learned Latin quotations are written.
The series of Deadly Sins is found under the Danse Macabre; they are each represented by a beast: Pride from the lion, Avarice from the toad, Lust from the beak, Wrath from the cat, Throat from the pig, Envy from the kite, Sloth from the donkey.
- The origin of the church, however, is much older. The architectural features of the original structure date it to the 10th century. The primitive triumphal arch, some characteristics in the structure of the bell tower, the mullioned windows of the original cell, a series of frescoes on the south entrance that classify it from the Romanesque period indicate its age. On the right of the apse, following works carried out, one was found Annunciation in excellent condition which dates back to the thirteenth century, as well as the frescoes that adorn the external southern façade together with subsequent works by Baschenis.
- The following centuries to the Romanesque brought enlargements and raising of the building, with a rectangular plan and three naves, with Gothic interventions denoted by the pointed arch of the portal, by pointed niches, by the structure of the apse. The six sails of the dome of the apse represent the Eternal Father, San Vigilio, the Doctors of the Church Gregory, Gerolamo, Ambrogio, Agostino and the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- The altars are also richly frescoed; notable in the altar of San Rocco a Enthroned Madonna of Byzantine character, a Christ in Limbo it's a Christ who lets himself be touched by Thomas. The main altar is in gilded wood with carvings and bas-reliefs from 1636; also in gilded wood, from 1639, the altar of San Rocco; of 1617 the wooden altar of the Rosary, in addition to the altar of San Giacomo and that of the Confraternita dei Battuti.
- 2 Parish church of San Lorenzo. When the church of San Vigilio, which had been the parish of Carisolo and Pinzolo, began to be insufficient to serve both countries, a new church was built in Pinzolo on the site of an ancient chapel dedicated to San Lorenzo. The construction took the years from 1765 to 1771. The facade was decorated in 1777 and has a large portal partially in granite. The two marble medallions on the sides of the portal - recall two characters of the town: the Franciscan archbishop Antonio Maturi (1686 - 1751) and the Jesuit missionary Angelo Maffei (1844 - 1899).
- The building has a single wide nave, with two side altars on each side. The most important work preserved in the church is undoubtedly the high altar, which was purchased for the new temple by the church of Santa Eufemia in Verona; dated year 1694 it is attributed to Giovan Battista Ranghieri, author of the most beautiful altars of the seventeenth century in Verona. It is in Baroque style, in marble of various colors.
- The two altars closest to the main altar date back to 1857 and are the work of the Peduzzi brothers; in one there is the wooden image of the Madonna and Child, from 1858, an object of particular veneration; in the other you can see the large canvas depicting the Blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo, a character a bit of home since the father seems to be from Pinzolo; the painting is from 1787 and is signed by Domenico Zeni di Bardolino.
- The other two side altars are slightly later, and were completed in 1863 by Renato Peduzzi, grandson of the authors of those next to the main altar; one houses the statues of Sant'Antonio and San Rocco as well as a large canvas of the Venetian school of the sixteenth century The Crucifix, the Madonna and San Lorenzo; the other the statues of San Giuseppe and San Luigi and a painting of San Francesco from the early twentieth century. The baptismal font is a modern work (1970) by the Cremonese sculptor Emilio Priori, an artist of solid fame; on a marble band in bas-relief are represented episodes of the history of salvation, from original sin to the resurrection of Christ.
- The towering bell tower was built between 1865 and 1867, designed by Leopoldo Claricini. It is entirely made of granite and with its height of 72 meters it ranks among the highest bell towers in Trentino.
- 3 Church of San Gerolamo. This small sacred building already served as a base for the monks of the Madonna di Campiglio Hospice in the Middle Ages. It preserves a gilded wooden altar of the seventeenth century representing San Girolamo who writes the Bible and the Madonna Addolorata.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 La Briciola Restaurant, Via Bolognini 27, ☎ 39 0465 501443.
- 2 All'Antica Segheria pizzeria restaurant, via Campiglio 2, ☎ 39 0465 501498.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Hotel Hedelweiss, Via Bolognini 120, ☎ 39 0465 501223, @[email protected].
- 2 La Brisa Bed & Breakfast, via Fucine 49 bis, ☎ 39 0465 503427.
- 3 Bed & Breakfast Al Borgo Antico, Via Genova 103 / bis, ☎ 39 393 7313833.
Safety
Pharmacies
- 4 Scale, Piazza S. Giacomo, 1, ☎ 39 0465 501058.
- 5 Bretta, Viale Dolomiti Brenta, 44 (in Madonna di Campiglio), ☎ 39 0465 442174.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 6 Italian post, via San Lorenzo 30, ☎ 39 0465 503062.
Keep informed
- Journal of the Giudicarie [1] - online newsletter
Around
- Brenta Dolomites
- Carisolo - At the entrance to Val Genova, the cemetery church of Santo Stefano, isolated in a panoramic position on a promontory outside the town, preserves important pictorial cycles of the Baschenis.
- Waterfalls of Val Genova
- Madonna of Campiglio - One of the most famous summer and winter sports resorts in the entire Alpine arc, already renowned in the Habsburg era, when it could boast the frequentation of the Austrian imperial family.
- Idro lake
- Lake Garda - The tip trentina del lago includes the tourist centers of Riva del Garda, Arch, Torbole.
