Crowned mount of Belmonte

The Mont Crowned of Belmonte is a Calvaire built with the top of the communes of Valperga and Cuorgnè, located in the Province of Turin in the Piedmont, whose construction goes back to the beginning of the 18th century. It is due on the initiative of the minor father practitioner, Michelangelo de Montiglio. It was registered the July 3rd 2003, with eight other martyrdoms of the Piedmont and the Lombardy on the Liste of the world heritage under the cultural goods by UNESCO.

Situation

At the entry of the valley of Orco, the Mont Crowned of Belmonte dominates Valperga and Cuorgnè. Its construction goes back to the beginning of the 18th century. The monumental unit includes/understands a Sanctuaire around whose out of ring a course of devotion decorated with thirteen Chapelles dedicated to the Mysteries of the Rosaire is held. The line is stripped, essential. The vaults all are built on the same plan, with a part of dimension variable and a polygonal Abside, accompanied by a gantry on which the representation of the crowned scene appears. The language is more plastic than pictorial, the Statues are simple and popular, with sharp and touching gestures. Unfortunately there remains only part of the original Statues of the 18th century out of terra cotta of Castellamonte, the others either being very damaged, or replaced by more recent out of plaster.

History

It seems certain that the religious financings for the Mont Crowned have remote origins, as tend to prove it the capitals found here. In any case according to the popular tradition, the promoter of the sanctuary of Belmonte would have been the first king of Italy, Arduino. One knows with exactitude that at the end of 1197 was built a monastery Benedictine, for men according to some, for women according to others.

In 1326, the sisters of Santa Scolastica were present but they left the mount two centuries later, according to the odre of the Conseil of Thirty. The minor brothers franciscains were established at the beginning of the 17th century, they rebuilt the sanctuary, projected and constructed the whole of devotion.

From 1712, the Michelangelo father in a few years succeeds in building the first eight vaults. The extremes being fixed with vault 1 and the 6, where the course returns on the way of the return, it carried out the construction of various intermediate stages. The structure was thus completely defined, but, with died of its founder, the construction stopped during forty years. The building site began again at full rate/rhythm in 1759, but it still stopped after 1781, with the suppression of the Monastic orders. At that time the whole of the Mont Crowned was practically completed.

Devastations which followed caused many damage with the original statues. The last vault, the thirteenth one, was built in 1825. The course envisaged a fourteenth vault, the Sepulchre, unfortunately taken again by hotel trades and denatured at the architectural level. Lastly, in 1872, the Rolle father founded a vault dedicated to holy Siméon stylite, become then necropolis of the tales of Valperga.

The first restorations go back to the beginning of the 20th century: certain frescos were completely remade and of many statues substituted by others out of plaster.

See too

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External bonds

  1. Sacro Assembles di Belmonte
  2. Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
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