{"id":5870,"date":"2014-03-13T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alagna.it\/wp\/?page_id=5870"},"modified":"2022-05-02T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T17:00:28","slug":"before-the-walser","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/en\/history\/before-the-walser\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Walser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The first documents<\/strong> related to the territory of Alagna and Riva dates back to <strong>the year one thousand.<\/strong> The territory under Mont Rosa belonged to the monasteries of San Nazzaro of Biandrate, San Pietro in Castelletto and to the Bishop of Novara and it is in the midst of their stories that you can read about the history of Alta Valsesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first documents the names <strong>of three mountain<\/strong> pastures appear : <strong>Alagna, Otro and Mud.<\/strong> These properties at high altitudes included a piece of land that leads from the lower valley to higher pastures. The name of the pasture referred to the property, but the lower valley which was used as a mid-season stop-over for herds on their way to pasture, was called P\u00e8, origins of Pedemont or P\u00e8 de Myot (Mud) and Pedelegno ( P\u00e8 d'Alagna).<br><strong>L'Alpe Mud<\/strong> appears in the <strong>diploma of Costanza in 1025<\/strong> in which Corrado il Salico donates it to the Bishop of Novara. It reappears again in 1138 in the passage of property to the Cluniancese Monastery of San Pietro in Castelletto. A document dated 1196, certifies that the Abbot of San Nazzero entrusted Alpe Alania to the men in Roccapietra, renting it for 50 imperial coins per year and the day's milking on San Quirico (13\/7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2-306x230.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mention of\u00a0<strong>Otro<\/strong>\u00a0can be found\u00a0<strong>for the first time<\/strong>\u00a0on a\u00a0<strong>document dating back to 1025<\/strong>\u00a0and on one of 1083, where it states that it was donated by Guido of Biandrate to the abbey of Cluny, who transferred the property to San Pietro in Castelletto in 1138. Many areas of Valle Vogna on the other hand, were the property of the Bishop of Novara and still today, the hamlet Ca Vescovo is testimony to the memory of its ancient owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Novarese Diocese also owned Alpe Alzarella and P\u00e8 d\u2019Alzarella \u00a0whose traces can be found in documents dated 1300 and 1302. The hamlet Peccia though, belonged to San Nazzaro, as shown in payment concession deeds of the Walser from Gressoney.<br>It was the work of monasteries and in particular the Cluniancese monks who stimulated the colonization of the Walser between the end of 1200 and the beginning of 1300, by initiating the transfer of mountain pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The importance of these mountain pastures was confirmed by the passage through the valley via the higher roads south of Mont Rosa, and in passing by the alps Bors and Safeyaz, uniting the valleys of Gressoney and Macugnaga. The latter is mentioned in the treaty of Brusson between Ebalo of Challant and the Valsesiano in 1270.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3-306x230.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/primadeiwalser3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ai <strong>piedi di questi alpeggi<\/strong>\u00a0di propriet\u00e0 dei monasteri era la\u00a0<strong>comunit\u00e0 di Pietre Gemelle<\/strong>, <strong>At the foot of these pastures<\/strong>, property of the monasteries,\u00a0<strong>the community of Pietre Gemelle<\/strong>\u00a0was founded, an outpost inhabited every year since the winters of 1216-1217. It was probably built on the plain below the Vogna and maybe abandoned in the XIII century due to the frequent verflowing of the torrent\u2019s banks. Leaving the church and the cemetery, the inhabitants moved \u201csuper ripam petris zumellarum\u201d where Riva Valdobbia is situated today.<br>For three more centuries,the name Pietre Gemelle marked the inhabited areas where they went, combining new outposts of Walser colonization. The people of P\u00e8, ancient monastic property \u00a0gave life to small self-sufficient villages, among which P\u00e8 d\u2019Alagna became the centre of the community settled to the north of Riva which split from Pietre Gemelle in 1475, giving life to the community of Alagna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first documents related to the territory of Alagna and Riva dates back to the year one thousand. 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