Fiera di Primiero
Fiera di Primiero ( during the Habsburg Empire: Market Primör ) is a municipality with 534 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2009) in the Italian autonomous province of Trento ( Trentino Alto Adige ). The town is the administrative and economic center of the Primiero ( Primörtal ) in eastern Trentino.
Geography
Fiera di Primiero with its 0.15 km ² in area, the smallest town in Italy before Atrani on the Amalfi Coast with 0.20 km ².
It is 745 m s.l.m. at the mouth of the river Canali in the Cismon, after the Primiero is also called Valle del Cismon ( Cismon Valley), at the foot of the mountain Bedolè and the Pale di San Martino. The village is located about 15 miles south of San Martino di Castrozza and 25 km from Passo Rolle away, over which the road continues to Bolzano and Trento. By rising to the east Val Canali the place over the Passo Cereda is connected to Agordo, south through the Val di Schener with Feltre in the province of Belluno.
It borders the municipalities Siror, Tonadico, Transacqua and Mezzano.
History
The fief of Welsperg family owned valley of Primör was part of the historic Tyrol, the Margaret of Tyrol in 1363 the Habsburg Duke Rudolf IV bequeathed. Soon after it experienced an extraordinary boom due to its numerous copper, silver and iron mines. The numerous add -drawn miners built a new village at the confluence of two rivers, where the market ( la fiera ) was held for the results obtained ores. Although the smallest and youngest village, it quickly became the center of the valley, even over the older Tonadico in which the statutes of the valley were stored. By the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919 South Tyrol and thus the Primiero came to Italy.
Attractions
At the historic mining today still remembers the Palazzo delle Miniere, the seat of the so-called imperial mountain judge, who had the oversight of the mines of Primiero. The parish church of Santa Maria Assunta is one of the finest Gothic churches in the Trentino with a 1465 carved altarpiece and a fresco showing the important Roman family in the valley in the worship of the risen Christ. In addition to the Palazzo delle Miniere the Romanesque church of San Martino is from the 11th century.
Personalities
Fiera di Primiero is the birthplace of:
- Luigi Negrelli (1799 - 1858), who built as Alois Negrelli of Moldelbe numerous railways in the Austrian Bohemia and Moravia, the Lombardo - Venetian kingdom and Switzerland and the planning of the Suez Canal had a substantial impact.
- Giuseppina Negrelli (1790 - 1842), welschtirolerische patriot in the Tyrolean struggle for freedom and sister of Alois Negrelli.
- Giuseppe Terrabugio (1843 - 1933), organist and composer