Besazio
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Ticino (TI)
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| District : | Mendrisio district |
| Circle : | Riva San Vitale district |
| Municipality : | Mendrisio |
| Postal code : | 6863 |
| former BFS no. : | 5243 |
| Coordinates : | 717 508 / 81324 |
| Height : | 493 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 0.9 km² |
| Residents: | 613 (December 31, 2012) |
| Population density : | 681 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | mendrisio.ch/quartieri/besazio/ |
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Until April 13, 2013, Besazio was a municipality in the Riva San Vitale district , in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
geography
The village is ten kilometers from Chiasso and is close to the Italian border. Besazio's red marble, called brocatello , is well known.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1335 under the then name Besatio . The place seems to have a continuous history of settlement since Roman times . Under Filippo Maria Visconti , the village had to send four armed men into the princely armies.
population
| Population development | |||||||||
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| year | 1591 | 1643 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2012 | 2018 |
| Residents | 100 | 111 | 158 | 259 | 258 | 230 | 501 | 613 | 627 |
Attractions
- The parish church of Madonna Immacolata
- A monument from the old days is the church of Sant'Antonino from the eighth century, as well as the foundations of mansions and Roman tombs as well as the baptismal font, which today stands as a fountain on the large church square
- In addition to the church, the Realini patrician house and Luigi Zanini's castle, a winery built in 1998, are worth seeing
- The neoclassical parish hall with a small Immacolata statue by Vincenzo Vela .
Sports
- Associazione Sportiva Della Montagna Arzo - Besazio - Meride - Tremona
Personalities
- Antonio Fontana (born November 6, 1784 in Sagno, † December 7, 1865 in Besazio), abbot and pedagogue, he was general director of the Lombard grammar schools in Milan
- Antonio Caslani (* 1861 in Besazio, † 1923 in Paris ), sculptor, entrepreneur in Saint Petersburg
- Galli family
- Giovanni Galli (* 1866 in Besazio; † 1902 in Saint Petersburg), sculptor, entrepreneur in Saint Petersburg
- Angelo Galli (* 1871 in Besazio; † 1947 there), sculptor, entrepreneur in Saint Petersburg
- Orio Galli (born October 15, 1941 in Milan), grandson of Angelo Galli, painter, draftsman, illustrator
- Otto Staiger (born September 3, 1894 in Basel , † September 5, 1967 ibid), Swiss glass painter, painter, wood carver
- Ernst Max Musfeld (* 1900 in Basel, † 1964 in Mendrisio ), painter and graphic artist
- Pascal Calderari (born July 23, 1908 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , † February 13, 1983 Ibid), sculptor, builder
- Max Haufler (* 1910; † 1965), Swiss actor, painter and film director
- Rolf Meyer (born April 20, 1913 in Basel , † May 25, 1990 in Besazio), painter
- Giordano Castellani (* 1945 in Milan), high school teacher, book scholar, literary critic
literature
- Stefania Bianchi: Besazio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
- Carlo Crespi: Besazio e le sue chiese. , 1971.
- Giuseppe Martinola : Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 73-82.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Besazio. In: Il Comune. , Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 39-50.
- Celestino Trezzini : Besazio In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Beringen - Bion , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 208 ( digitized version ). (accessed on July 4, 2017).
- Felix Wiedenmayer: The ammonites of the Besazio limestone (Pliensbachian, southern Ticino). Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1977.
Web links
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- Website of the municipality of Mendrisio
- Data from the municipality of Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio (Italian)
- Quartier Besazio on the website of the Municipality of Mendrisio (Italian)
- Besazio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Besazio on ticinarte.ch
- Besazio on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Besazio. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 21, 2017).
- ↑ Besazio on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 21, 2017).
- ↑ Stefania Bianchi: Besazio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Besazio population at the end of 2018
- ↑ a b c d Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 425-426.
- ^ Associazione sportiva della montagna
- ↑ Antonio Caslani (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/
- ↑ Giovanni Galli (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/
- ↑ Angelo Galli in Saint Petersburg
- ↑ Angelo Galli (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/
- ↑ Orio Galli. In: Sikart , accessed February 5, 2016.
- ↑ Ernst Max Musfeld. In: Sikart (accessed October 3, 2016)
- ↑ Pascal Calderari. In: Sikart
- ^ Simone Soldini: Rolf Meyer. In: Sikart (status: 2006) (accessed October 4, 2016)
- ^ Giordano Castellani literary critic on independent.academia.edu/
- ↑ Giordano Castellani in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 6, 2016.)
- ^ Felix Wiedenmayer: The ammonites of the Besazio limestone (Pliensbachian, South Ticino). in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 6, 2016.)
