San Fedele, Albenga
San Fedele | |
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  San Fedele Location of San Fedele in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 44°02′47″N 8°10′19″E / 44.04639°N 8.17194°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Liguria |
| Province | Savona |
| Comune | Albenga |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,100 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 17031 |
| Patron saint | Saints Simon and Jude |
San Fedele (or Sanfè in Ligurian) is a hamlet of about 1,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Albenga, in the Province of Savona, bordering the fraction of Lusignano. Located about 2 km from Albenga, it consists of a historic nucleus on a ridge on the hills behind and an area of houses along the provincial road that goes from Albenga to Villanova d'Albenga, up to the Centa.
In the hamlet there is a complex of public housing, a kindergarten that was previously an elementary school. There is a complex currently being restored, which was a college for elementary and middle schools in use until the 1980s. There is the villa called Casa Calvi where a fresco by Albenga is represented which, even if not representative of reality, made it possible to evaluate the physical geography of the city in the fifteenth century.
History
The first traces of the community are found in 1288 in the statutes of Albenga, while the church dedicated to Saints Simone il Cananeo and Giuda Taddeo, protectors of the Republic of Genoa, dates back to 1347. In 1470 there is the foundation of the brotherhood dedicated to St. John Baptist. It is known that the rector and the parishioners commissioned a polyptych of considerable value from the Pavese painter Francesco Ferrari in 1483, which was paid for in 1491 but which was subsequently lost.
Many of the noble families of Albenga built villas in San Fedele, such as Casa Calvi, to be able to holiday in the countryside for fear of malaria. In the sixteenth century San Fedele was chosen by the lords Alessandro and Ottavio Costa to erect a palace of ancient statues and frescoes, with a spacious garden and water sources, built in the Pianbellino region (now lost, in which there were paintings and marbles accumulated by Count Ottavio, whose family was already enrolled in the Genoese nobility in 1576. Another Villa is that of Casa Calvi in which one of the oldest and probably true frescoes of how the city of Albenga looked in the sixteenth century is preserved.
In 1631 there were 498 inhabitants, however during the following century there was a slight depopulation.
In 1889 an elementary school was founded which served the hamlets of San Fedele and Lusignano. Then the Ursulines nuns arrive who give life to the girls' boarding school in the Borea-Ricci villa operating in education according to the principles of the Catholic religion. In this period the parish priest was Don Tomaso Raimondo who wrote 6 notebooks of local chronicles, from which it was possible to deduce the history of the last century of San Fedele.
During the First World War there were many who were enlisted, so much so that during a women's protest on 19 and 20 March 1917, the army had to intervene to arrest 26 women who had come down from San Fedele to Albenga to protest with shouts like "Down with the war, for two years we have had husbands at war and we want them at home, down with the Royal Commissariat and down with the Town Hall" - "Down with the refugees, down with the ambushed, either on your face or soldiers, move on, rebel it's time to stop it ", as well as for having torn posters posted by the local authority to invite citizens to calm down. That day there were women with sticks and equipped with stones that broke the tables of the Modern Cafe and the glass of a photography advertisement, and also tried to damage the post office. It is not known what happened to these women, probably a few nights in jail and then returned home to work in the fields, but it is an episode that makes us understand the stubbornness of the women of this country.[1]
In the Second World War San Fedele made his contribution, with fifteen fallen killed by the Nazi-Fascist madness. Among these we remember the story of some: Fugassa Emilio Samuele (Loano, 14/02/1897) and his brother Fugassa Emilio Domenico killed on 28/12/1944 at the mouth of the river Centa; the other brother Giovanni Fugassa (Loano, 05/06/1902) was shot at the mouth on 27/12/1944; Samuele's son, Marco, only 22 years old, was a draft dodger and soon after enlisted in the VI Div. Garibaldi, I ^ Brigata (I Ligure area), exactly from 16/2/1945 (as shown in note no. 3016 of the Regional Commission of Liguria pursuant to DLL n.518 / 1945). A noteworthy anecdote is that of the American soldier who rushed to Monte Bignone and fled to San Fedele, where he was captured and taken to the central square of Albenga as a trophy. Others were the martyrs for freedom, among them: Terrera Giovanni, nom de guerre Biondo, part of the SAP div. Fumagalli Brigade Savona, born in Albenga on 09/24/1924 and fell on 06/21/1924 in Saliceto during the clashes with the Nazis. Also Bruno Andrea Giulio, arrested on 12/30/1944 in nearby Lusignano and murdered the next day in San Fedele by a German soldier and an Italian collaborator who have never been identified. For the roundups of Lusignano and San Fedele, among others, Mauro Sansoni, an officer of the San Marco, was punished, who was arrested and taken to Savona to be shot on April 28.[2]
In the cemetery a chapel was built with the bodies of the martyrs of freedom, with the epigraph in memory:
Sfidarono i tempi insidi di oppressione: vendetta. Loro insegna fu la libertà degli spiriti e per essa fu la giovane gagliarda pura immolazione. Il grande olocausto sia nei tempi monito eloquente, guida sicura per le popolazioni di oggi e di domani - La popolazione memore in ricordo pose. XI - VI MCMXLVI They defied the insidious times of oppression: revenge. They teaches was the freedom of the spirits and for it was the young vigorous pure immolation. May the great holocaust be an eloquent warning in time, a sure guide for the populations of today and tomorrow - The mindful population in remembrance posed. XI - VI MCMXLVI
In the second post-war period, small industrial, artisanal and commercial plants were built, as social housing complexes and with special agreements.
See also
References
- ^ "Quaderni Savonesi" (PDF). Retrieved 09/01/2021.
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Bibliography
- Lamboglia Nino, Albenga romana e medioevale, Ist. Inter. Studi Liguri, Bordighera 1966
- Costa Restagno Josepha, Albenga, Sagep Editrice,1985
- Romano Strizioli, Sebastiano Gandolfo, Erica Marzo, Albenga: un secolo di storia (1900-2000), F.lli Stalla di Albenga, Albenga, 2007, ISBN 978-88-901943-7-5
- Pierpaolo Rivello, Le stragi nell'albenganese del 1944 e 1945, Torino, Sottosopra edizioni, 2011.
- Ferruccio Iebole e Pino Fragalà, Lo chiamavano Cimitero, Albenga, Scripsi, tracce d'autore, 2020.