Alto Malcantone
Alto Malcantone | |
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State : |
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Canton : |
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District : | Lugano district |
Circle : | Breno County |
BFS no. : | 5237 |
Postal code : | 6937 Breno 6938 Fescoggia 6938 Vezio 6939 Arosio 6939 Mugena |
Coordinates : | 710 818 / 99061 |
Height : | 810 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 431–1936 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 22.06 km² |
Residents: | 1405 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 64 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.altomalcantone.ch |
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Alto Malcantone is a municipality in the district of Breno , district Lugano , in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
geography
The municipality of Alto Malcantone in the upper Malcantone borders on the south on Miglieglia , Aranno and Cademario , on the east on Bedano and Torricella-Taverne and on the north on Mezzovico-Vira .
history
The municipality was created on March 14, 2005 through the union of the former municipalities of Arosio , Breno , Fescoggia , Mugena and Vezio .
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Historical aerial photo from 1500 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1919
population
Population development | |||||||
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year | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2018 | |
Residents | 693 | 746 | 937 | 1194 | 1316 | 1405 |
Attractions
See under Arosio TI , Breno TI , Fescoggia , Mugena and Vezio TI .
literature
- Virgilio Chiesa : Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1961.
- Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Malcantone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 2, 2010 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Editor: Alto Malcantone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 28, 2016 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Malcantone. Testimonianze culturali nei comuni malcantonesi. Lugano-Agno 1985.
- Celestino Trezzini : Malcantone. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 8: Macheret - Z. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1934, p. 107 ( digitized version )
Web links
Commons : Alto Malcantone - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website of the municipality of Alto Malcantone
- Data from the municipality of Alto Malcantone
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Alto Malcantone (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ La redazione: Alto Malcantone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 28, 2016 , accessed February 5, 2020 .