SONDRIO  , a

town of Lombardy, Italy, capital of the province of Sondrio, in the Valtellina, 114o ft. above sea-level, on the river Adda, 26 m . E. of Lake Como and 82 M. by rail N.E. of Milan . Pop . (1901), 4425 (town); 7707 (commune) . The Valtellina, of which Sondrio is the capital, produces a considerable quantity of red wine . Sondrio also has silk-works . Above the town to the north rise the snowclad peaks of the Bernina group . The railway goes on to Tirano, 16 m. farther east, from which diverge. the Bernina and Stelvio roads .