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Tremosine |
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 Twelve small hamlets: one of which, Campione, is on the lake while the others, Ariàs, Bassanega, Cadignano, Castone, Mezzema, Musio, Pregasio, Priezzo, Secastello, Sermerio, Sompriezzo, Ustecchio, Vesio, Villa, Voiandes, Voltino and Pieve which is the main village, are on the upland. Together they form the municipality of Tremosine covering 72sq.km and thus one of the largest in the province of Brescia.
Tremosine can be reached from Limone, through Tamàs; or from Tignole along the “Tignalana” road; or along the main road which from “Porto” on the Gardesana road, climbs up to Pieve.
The natural enviroment is varied: the hamlets are set between narrow valleys, hills, hillocks and highlands covered in fields, olive groves and pine trees. The altitude varies from 65m where Campione lies to the 1976m of mount Caplone. There are several mule-tracks which wind along the mountain sides to reach those places which, until 1918, delimited the borders with the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. There are also plenty of itineries for even the most demanding hikers and mountain bike enthusiasts.
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 A little history
A prehistoric station was discovered by Arturo Cozzaglio at Pieve, at the top of the path leading from the port; prehistoric artefacts have been uncovered around the areas of Castello, Lis and Calvarice.
Evidence of a probable Etruscan settlement, is the tomb-stone found in the bell tower of the church of Voltino, now kept at Brescia: it is 40 x 40cm and bears a bilingual inscription which has been deciphered only in part. Amoung the Roman tomb-stones worth noting is the one walled into the shrine at the turning for Ustecchio; together with the latter, two large funeral urns containing I-II century A.D. coins were also found.
Tremosine was contended between Brescia and Trento since the Longobard era. A full-blown war was fought for its possession in the second half of the XIII cent. Later, in 1426, it too fell under the sovereignty of the Serenissima until 1797.
In 1815 it became part of the Lombardo-Veneto region; in 1859 it became Sardinian territory, in 1861, territory of the Kingdom of Italy, on the border with the Austrian-Hungarian Empire until 1918.
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 Campione: from workers’ village to windsurfers’ and sailors’ paradise
Campione occupies the small alluvial fan, formed by the torrent of the same name, at the foot of the overhanging mountain. Here in 1896, Giacomo Feltrinelli established a cotton-mill with housing for the workers and personnel, vegetable gardens, a school, a theartre, and a church: a proper industrial village of which the main structures remain today. In the fifties of the last century, it still had 1000 employees.
When the mill closed in 1981, the people of Campione had to find themselves a new source of income: they found it in tourism, thanks to the wind that blows there continuously. So water sports such as sailing, windsurfing and kite-surfing took on and now attract many enthusiasts all through the year.
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The weather |
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