INSUBRIA
We have spoken often in these pages of Municipalities, Local Communities, provinces and autonomous homogeneous areas Territoriali.Ragionando open field on questions last, are decidedly "lands to explore, we have identified as areas that have elements of cultural, economic and social uniscono.Allargando them so the field over the provincial limit we can also identify this type of regional areas, which are not, however, what the Italian has given us, but Areas that relate to the illustrations fa.Esempio few lines, a Como in Lombardy and Mantua have little to share, the Como is certainly more similarities in Varese and Novara in Biella or crossing over or in a Ticinese.Da here part of a first illustration of the Region INSUBRIA.
Some specifications from Wikipedia
The Insubria is a historical and geographical region, corresponding to the old
territory previously inhabited by Insubri,
Celtic people who inhabited the region between the Po and the pre-alpine lakes from the IV , which Polybius
attributes the foundation of Milan around 590 BC In the second place
name can refer to the territory the Duchy of Milan (1395-1810). For centuries
report a zone somewhere between the Adda and the Sesia, and between the St. Gotthard
and the Po, which was synonymous with the region of Milan and its suburbs on
gravitating. The territory of the Region
Insubrica
In modern times the term is often perceived more narrowly to indicate the territory of the community of cross-border work Insubrica Royal, established in 1995 between the provinces of Varese, Como, Verbano Cusio Ossola and the Canton Ticino , or the lakes region of
riding between Switzerland and Italy where they speak Italian and the dialect Insubria. Recently, the Royal has spread to the provinces Novara and Lecco
This is a "Euroregion" (according to the Madrid Agreement of the Council of Europe) that promotes cross-border cooperation in the region of the three Italian-Swiss pre-alpine lakes (Lake Como, Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore).
Linguistics
the one ethno-linguistic point of view the Insubria includes the Province of Novara and Province of Lecco, the Province of Milan, the Province of Lodi, or those areas where it is spoken dialect of Western Lombard or Insubre areas, the rest corresponding to the territory of the Duchy of Milan, as it was up to his downfall and passage to Austria with the Treaty of Baden in 1714 or better to the Treaty of Campoformio which marks the end of the first Austrian domination. (1797).
uses modern and contemporary
Insubria The word was long considered a synonym for Lombardy, especially in the ducal period, or during the early Middle Ages and the rinascimento.Dal fourteenth to the seventeenth century, the literati at the ducal court in Milan, the words Insubres Insubria and were used to give the consciousness of unity and national identity than to live self comunali.Insubria even called it the heart of the then extensive duchy of Milan, as witnessed in the writings of
Benzo of Alexandria, John Simonetta, Bernardino Corio and Andrea Alciato. Gabriel will be highlighted again in the eighteenth century the concept with the term, set in its head works: "Insubres Sumus, not Latin."
In 1797, following the occupation of the Duchy of Milan, Napoleon ago by beating Milan mint a commemorative medal with the words "Free All'Insubria" and an allegory of the French Republic, represented as a helmeted woman, assisted in its right, the peace that poses a Phrygian cap on his head Insubria: This is conducted by a Genius at his feet and has a cornucopia.Negli thirties is promoted in a magazine called "Insubria", which works to promote tourism and Lakes prealpini.Il term culture falls into a period of neglect until the early nineties, when the Insubria back in vogue at a number of initiatives, including the first foundation (1995) of the said community of cross-border work, the "Royal Insubrica", with the aim of enhancing the cultural elements, economic and social links with Switzerland and the provinces of Italian newspaper La confine.Il Prealpina, followed by others, fits a page headed all'Insubria daily, quoting news stories locale.Nel Policy (1996) recording of the Cultural lacostituzione Insubre Earth, based in Italy, which has in its program for the dissemination and promotion of history and the environment of a vast territory Insubrian
public. Currently (2006) has about 1500 members, two branch offices (Milan and Marcallo with Casone) and a homonymous journal trimestrale.Degli same period (14 July 1998) the establishment of the University of Insubria, or the university of Varese and Como.
Insubric
In recent years, some politicians are beginning to discuss the possibility of setting up institutional dell'Insubria and / or acquisition of political autonomy. However, there is today no political party that fights to achieve this goal, but only of the cultural movements and speech. In early 2002, was formed in Canton Ticino, and then in the Grisons, the "Movement of Independent Insubria" led by Medical Gravesano Werner Nussbaumer.Gli "Independent Insubria" Nussbaumer had as its representative to the Grand Council of the Canton Ticino January 2003 until the 2003 elections, although he was initially elected in 1999, the ranks of the Greens. The President of the movement in the Grisons
Insubri was Giancarlo Gruber.Dal 2005 is rather active group of opinion Doma Nunc,
promoter of the online magazine "El Dragon Bloeu. The movement was officially
February 6, 2006 in Milan, Piazza Insubria.
institutional representatives did not, but focuses primarily on local initiatives, among which
Environment Day, which during the month of July 2006 was held in Briosco
to celebrate the commemoration of the tragedy dell'ICMESA Seveso,
Forum on environmental emergencies in Insubria, held in March 2007 and
Uboldo Forum lengua Milan, which in April 2007 in Nerviano
has involved the major linguistic groups in the region. Nunc
Doma is based on the principles dell'econazionalismo, ie a synthesis between
ecology and preservation of cultural identity Insubrian requests, and promoting the project of a federal
Insubre, modeled on the Swiss state.
soon continue the conversation, a greeting to all Giorgio