In 1797 Napoleon annexed the Valtellina on the border with Graubünden into the new Cisalpine Republic in northern Italy and invaded the southern remainder of the bishopric of Basel.
It is also very similar to bresaola, which is produced in the neighbouring Italian province of Valtellina; unlike Bündnerfleisch, bresaola is not pressed, though.
Based on their design, the Italian Valtellina railway line was electrified in 1902 and became Europe's first electrified main railway line.
Lorenzo Holzknecht (born December 12, 1984) of the Sci Club Alta Valtellina is an Italian ski mountaineer.
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On the evening of 18/19 July 1620, a force of Valtellina rebels supported by Austrian and Italian troops marched into Tirano and began killing Protestants.
In this period he worked also as Ducal engineer for Ludovico il Moro, designing fortifications at Chiavenna and Piattamale, as well as repairing of roads and bridges in Valtellina and (in the 16th century) hydraulic works; for Ludovico he also realized a Loggia in the Ducal Palace of Vigevano, as well as some statues for the Milanese Cathedral.
In 1620, an uprising coordinated with the Spanish governor in Milan resulted in the massacre of a number of Protestants in the Republic's subject territory in the Valtellina, a fertile valley of considerable strategic importance (for through it the Spaniards in Milan could communicate by the Umbrail Pass and the Stelvio Pass with the Austrians in Tirol).
The Milanese reeve of Como, Gian Giacomo Medici, who resided on castle Musso, had been raiding the valley of Chiavenna since 1521, and in 1526 he even occupied the Valtellina, both subject territories of the Three Leagues.
Ponte in Valtellina borders the following municipalities: Castello dell'Acqua, Chiuro, Montagna in Valtellina, Piateda, Teglio, Tresivio, Valbondione.
He was born at Tirano, Valtellina, northern Italy, about the end of the fifteenth century.
He is member of the Sci Club Alta Valtellina, and lives in Valfurva.
The two most prominent concentrations of rock art in the Alps are found at Mont Bégo in France and the valleys of Valcamonica and Valtellina in Italy, both of which far outnumber other areas for the amount of art that they contain.
Passo di Tartano is a mountain pass that links the village of Tartano in Valtellina with Valleve in Val Brembana.