Treviolo

Treviolo
—  Comune  —
Comune di Treviolo
Saint George's church
Treviolo Location of Treviolo in Italy
Coordinates: 45°40′22″N 9°35′56″E
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Province of Bergamo (BG)
Frazioni	Curnasco, Albegno, Roncola
Area
• Total	8.7 km2 (3.4 sq mi)
Elevation	225 m (738 ft)
Population (Jan. 2011)
• Total	10,363
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Demonym	Treviolesi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	24048
Dialing code	035
Website	Official website

Treviolo (Treviöl in dialetto bergamasco)is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northeast of Milan and about 7 km southwest of Bergamo. As of 1 January 2011, it had a population of 10,363 and an area of 8.7 km².

The municipality of Treviolo contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Curnasco, Albegno, and Roncola: Curnasco is the most populated.

Treviolo borders the following municipalities: Bergamo, Bonate Sopra, Bonate Sotto, Curno, Dalmine, Lallio.

History

First human settlements in the area should be the ones of some of the Ligurian tribes, as evidenced by the name Curnasco, where the suffix "-asco" results to be characteristic feature of those populations.

With the Roman period, the residential nucleus had a considerable development; given the proximity to Bergamo we tend to think that those settlements were considered places of sighting and military outposts of the city.

At the end of Roman domination it is thought that Treviolo, Albegno and Curnasco have gone through a phase of depopulation, which ended with the arrival of the Lombards, who established a fundo Curnasco, cited in documents of the year 774. Of the 871, are the acts which refers Albineas (later translated as early as 964 in Albigna), while Trevilio appears in papers dating back to 910 (only in 1174 will appear as Triviliolo). Those were the years when the entire area had been ruled in the Holy Roman Empire, whose rulers instituted feudalism. Those entrusted to the Bishop of Bergamo territories of Treviolo already in the twelfth century, but their proximity to the orobic capital made ​​them particularly ambit areas from Guelph and Ghibelline factions, which sought to take control.

The fighting reached its climax during the year 1405, when Treviolo was subjected to a violent attack perpetrated by the Colleoni, a Guelph family of Trezzo , which destroyed buildings and killed many inhabitants sided with the faction hostile to them. The situation returned to normality only at the beginning of the fifteenth century, when erupted the Republic of Venice that, thanks to a series of targeted interventions, managed to restore a balance by putting an end to the social struggles and lifting the economy, promoting agricultural development. This despite the land were not particularly fertile, because of their alluvial and gravel nature, which is remedied by creating a series of small irrigation canals.

Following this he began to develop even the fraction Roncola, situated on the banks of the River Brembo, whose name should come, like the homonymous town not far, from the Latin word Roncus (meaning hill), then translated into runcula, which would indicate just an urban place near a hill or a terrace, in this case the river Brembo.

Just in 1927 the comune took its present size, when Treviolo joined to other fractions. However Curnasco, in the second half of the twentieth century tried many times to regain self-government, even if without success.

Sport Events

On 6th January, every year, in the fraction of Roncola at parco Callioni, is held the "Maratona sul Brembo", regular race of FIDAL.

Demographic evolution

External links

• www.comune.treviolo.bg.it/
• http://bibliotecatreviolo.org/full.php
• http://www.ictreviolo.it/