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Sondrio

Sondrio (Lombard: Sùndri; Romansh: Sunder; archaic German: Sünders or Sonders; Latin: Sundrium) is an Italian city and comune and Provincial Capital located in the heart of the Valtellina. It is the administrative centre for the province of Sondrio. In 2007, Sondrio was given the Alpine Town of the Year award.

The city of Sondrio has Lombard origins, although prehistoric and Roman remains have been found in its territory. Its oldest name is Sondrium which means land worked directly by the owner.

Like all of Valtellina, in Roman times, the territory of Sondrio belonged to the municipality of Como.

During the barbarian invasions and even later it was a place of refuge for fugitives, especially from the Po Valley, who brought new and more perfected technical knowledge for the cultivation of the land and for the processing of wood, wool, stones and metals. Soon a castle was built from which a feudal lord, in the name of the bishop of Como, dominated the whole parish, which included almost the whole Valmalenco and some neighboring lands even beyond the Adda.

En 1040 Enrique III de Franconia concedió la parroquia Sondriese a la familia Capitanei originaria de Vizzola y en este período se construyeron el castillo de S. Giorgio (ahora el monasterio de S. Lorenzo) y el castillo Masegra, que en 1436 pasó a Beccaria familia y siguiendo a esa grigiona de los Salis.

En 1335 Sondrio cayó junto con Como y toda la Valtellina en manos de los Visconti y en 1450 se sometió a los Sforza.
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Distance between:

Rome to Sondrio 323 Miles / 521 Kms
Milan to Sondrio 59 Miles / 95 Kms
Venice to Sondrio 128 Miles / 207 Kms

Postal Code 23100

Population 2020

Total: 21457
Total Men: 10050
Total Women: 10050

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