Col San Giovanni Explained

Col San Giovanni
Coordinates:	45.2156°N 7.3772°W
Province:	Turin (TO)
Comune:	Viù
Elevation Footnotes:	^[1]
Elevation M:	1118
Population Footnotes:	^[2]
Population Total:	55
Population As Of:	2001
Postal Code:	10070
Area Code:	(+39) 0123

Col San Giovanni is a frazione (and a parish) of the municipality of Viù, in Piedmont, northern Italy.

Name

In former times the village was named Collis ad sancti Joannis or Collo di San Giovanni.^[3]

History

Col San Giovanni was first mentioned in a document signed in 1011 by Landolfo, archbishop of Turin.

Since 1927 it was a separate comune (municipality).

Relevant buildings

The local church was built from 1614 on the site of a previous one and it was renovated in 1922 to allow the transit of a new road. Its bell tower is the oldest of the Lanzo Valleys and was built at the end of the 11th century.^[4]

Notes and References

Carta Tecnica Regionale raster 1:10.000 (vers.3.0), published by Regione Piemonte - 2007
14 °Censimento generale della popolazione e delle abitazioni, Istat on-line data: dawinci.istat.it (accessed in February 2014)
Book: Goffredo Casalis . Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di S. M. il Re di Sardegna . 5 . 333–336. Maspero. Torino. 1856 .
CHIESA PARROCCHIALE DI SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA (fraz. Col San Giovanni), page on www.comune.viu.to.it (accessed on February 2014)