Sondrio was designated Alpine City of the year 2007. With a municipal area of ​​20.88 km² is the least extensive and least populous among the 109 Italian provincial capitals. It rises in the middle of Valtellina at the confluence of the Mallero torrent with the Adda, at the gates of the Valmalenco, under the Corna Mara massif. The city is the main center of the area.
The climate of the city, like the rest of the valley floor, is continental, with cold winters and hot summers. Rainfall is frequent even in the summer season. During the winter, the average daily temperature generally stands at 0.9 ° C. The lows between November and March are almost always below zero, with peaks down to -15 ° C during Arctic raids from the east or north. Snowfalls are frequent (the snow level average is around 45 cm per year with a stay on the ground of about 45-50 days). Rain from late November to February is rare and rainfall is mainly snowy but it can happen every so often that particularly humid or sirocco winds associated with Atlantic disturbances bring rain and temperatures between 2 ° C and 4 ° C (often in the evening the rain turns to snow).
The city of Sondrio has Lombard origins, although prehistoric and Roman evidence has been found in its territory. Its oldest name is Sondrium which means "land made to work directly by the owner". Like all Valtellina, in Roman times, the territory of Sondrio belonged to the Como municipality.
Sondrio
Address: Piazza Campello, 1, 23100
Phone: 0342 526111
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