Cles

{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Cles

| official_name = Comune di Cles

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| image_caption = Cles

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| coordinates = {{coord|46|22|N|11|02|E|display=inline,title}}

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| region = Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

| province = Trentino (TN)

| frazioni = Caltron, Dres, Pez, Maiano, Mechel, Spinazzeda

[http://incomune.interno.it/statuti/statuti/cles.pdf Comune di Cles - Statuto].

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| mayor_party = PATT

| mayor = Ruggero Mucchi (since May 11, 2015)

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| area_total_km2 = 39.17

|population_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://demo.istat.it/pop2018/index.html|title=Istat Data|access-date=2019-02-24|archive-date=2019-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229103417/http://demo.istat.it/pop2018/index.html|url-status=dead}}

| population_total = 7009

| population_as_of = 1 January 2018

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| population_demonym = Clesiani

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| elevation_m = 658

| saint = Santa Maria Assunta

| day = August 15

| postal_code = 38023

| area_code = 0463

| website = {{official website|http://www.comune.cles.tn.it}}

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Cles ({{langx|de|Glöß}}; Nones: Clés or Cliès) is a town and comune in Trentino, in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of northern Italy. It is the main town of Val di Non.

It is the main town of and is located in Val di Non. Monte di Cles and Monte Peller ({{convert|2319|m|2|abbr=on}} above sea level) are located to the west of the residential area, while Lake Santa Giustina is on the east.

History

Prior to World War I, Cles was part of the Austrian Empire. After the war, the region was ceded to Italy with the dissolution of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy.

Lake Santa Giustina

Lake Santa Giustina is an artificial lake which was created by the dike on the creek Noce. The dam was completed in 1950, is 152 metres high and it was the highest dam in Europe at the time. The lake can contain up to about 180 million cubic metres water, which feeds the turbines of the hydroelectric plant in Taio.{{cite book

|last = Bartaletti

|first = Fabrizio

|title = Geografia e cultura delle Alpi - Volume 73 di Geografia e società

|year = 2004

|publisher= Franco Angeli

|location = Milano

|isbn = 88-464-5119-8

|page = 168

}}
Limited preview (Google Books): {{cite book

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYk4vM9Uk44C&q=%22Santa+Giustina%22+Noce&pg=PA168

|title=Geografia e cultura delle Alpi

|isbn=9788846451194

|access-date=April 5, 2011

|last1=Bartaletti

|first1=Fabrizio

|year=2004

}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.progettodighe.it/main/le-dighe/article/santa-giustina

|title=Santa Giustina - ProgettoDighe

|editor-last=Del Tedesco

|editor-first=Elvis

|year=2010

|access-date=October 23, 2017

}}

The lake is named after the location where the dam is placed, which in turn is named after an ancient hermitage of which only ruins are left, covered by a natural hollow of the rock.

Tabula clesiana

The Tabula clesiana is a bronze plate measuring {{convert|49.9|by|37.8|by|0.61|cm|in}} that was discovered in 1869 at Campi Neri in Cles. It contains the edict of the Emperor Claudius of 46 AD, which granted Roman citizenship to the Alpine peoples of the Anauni, Sinduni and Tulliasses. It is kept at the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum in Trento.

The Tabula is an important evidence of the rapid assimilation by the Roman world of the Alpine peoples of farmers-hunters; but also from the point of view of the Roman law the first evidence of the introduction of delatores in the fiscal controversy.Spagnuolo Vigorita, 1984: delatorial trial. legal controversy on the patrimonium principis and the status personae.[https://archive.org/details/whyitalyentered00carngoog/page/n89 A translation of the Tabula]

Notable people

Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, (1721 – 1782) painter
Bernardo Clesio, (1484 – 1539) cardinal and diplomat
Vladimir Barbu, competitive diver (b. 1998)
Letizia Paternoster, road and track cyclist (b. 1999)
Andrea Pinamonti, footballer (b. 1999)
Luca de Aliprandini, alpine skier (b. 1990)
Letizia Borghesi, cyclist (b. 1998)
Nadia Battocletti, runner (b. 2000)

Gallery

File:Cles - chiesa - 01.JPG|Santa Maria Assunta Parish church

File:Chiesa di San Rocco a Cles (TN).jpg|Saint Roch Church

File:Cles - castello - 01.JPG|Cles Castle

References

External links

[http://www.comune.cles.tn.it Official website] {{in lang|it}}

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