Pollein

Introduction

 Municipality located on the eastern outskirts of Aosta, extending almost exclusively on the orographic right of the Dora Baltea. Undoubtedly inhabited since the Iron Age, the Pollein territory has also known Roman colonisation, as some toponyms bearing the suffix -an testify. These are in fact agricultural estates that bear the name of their first owner, established after the Roman victory over the Salassi. One of them, Tharençan, is usually traced back to the family of Aulus Terentius Varro, the founder of Aosta.
 

Description

The medieval history of the village is similar to that of many other Valdostan municipalities, which were divided and regrouped according to the fortunes of the various noble families that held the seigniorial rights. The vicissitudes of the parish of Saint George, whose rights first belonged to the priory of Saint-Jacquême and then (from 1549) to the provosts of the Great St. Bernard, are, on the other hand, original. From 1752, the year in which the order of monks on the main hill of the Aosta Valley was secularised and deprived of property, the rights over the parish passed to the Mauritian Order and consequently to the king, its Grand Master. It was only with the concordat of 1929 that the right to appoint the parish priest of Pollein was attributed to the bishop of Aosta.
 Like all the valley bottom municipalities gravitating within the orbit of the regional capital, Pollein also suffers considerably from the demographic and economic point of view: the population has grown considerably in recent decades, having become a coveted residential centre, while the more easily accessible land has seen the growth of commercial and industrial activities in place of traditional crops, which, however, still resist, flanking the livestock sector.
 Unfortunately, in October 2000, a large part of the territory fell victim to a catastrophic flood caused by the Arpisson torrent, usually of very modest dimensions. Another large landslide, recently identified, located on a slope of the Becca di Nona above, severely affects the territory and the lives of the inhabitants.

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Bordering municipalities: Aosta, Brissogne, Charvensod, Quart, Saint-Christophe
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