Cellio con Breia
Cellio con Breia | |
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Location of Cellio con Breia | |
Cellio con Breia Location of Cellio con Breia in Italy Cellio con Breia Cellio con Breia (Piedmont) | |
| Coordinates: 45°45′25.56″N 8°18′42.12″E / 45.7571000°N 8.3117000°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Province | Vercelli (VC) |
| Frazioni | Breia, Cellio |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Daniele Todaro |
| Area | |
• Total | 685 km2 (264 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 685 m (2,247 ft) |
| Population (31 August 2017)[1] | |
• Total | 992 |
| • Density | 1.4/km2 (3.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Official website |
Cellio con Breia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, established on 1 January 2018 by the merger of the former comuni of Breia and Cellio, in the lower Valsesia.
History
The Resistance
Cellio was the site of no less than two partisan battles during the resistance.[2]
Moscatelli and Eraldo Gastone, in the first half of September 1943, placed a group of former English prisoners, partisan volunteers, in Agaria, a hamlet of Cellio.
It was the scene of a roundup on 19 January 1944. The Garibaldi Brigades had prepared various detachments on the roads leading to Cellio, such as the Gramsci detachment. Lorenzo Beltrametti fell in a vain attempt to blow up a German tank with a rudimentary device.
The Germans had the objective of neutralizing a Garibaldian command headquarters in Castagneia, just north of Breia. On September 9, 1944 the Loss flywheel even captured a tank which, however, cannot be used but only disarmed.
References
- ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
- ^ il monte Rosa è sceso a Milano: la resistenza nel biellese nella valsesia e nella valdossola [Monte Rosa descended on Milan: resistance in the Biella area, Valsesia, and Valdossola] (in Italian). Italy. pp. 147–151, 358–360.