Isole di Brissago
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| Waters | Lake Maggiore | |
| Geographical location | 700 184 / 109 921 | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Main island | San Pancrazio (Grande Isola) |
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| Total land area | 0.033,754 km² | |
The Brissago Islands ( Isole di Brissago in Italian ) are located on the Swiss side of Lake Langensee , about 2.5 km from Brissago , to whose municipal area they belong, and 3.5 km from Ascona . It is about 1 km to Porto Ronco , from where the islands can be reached by shuttle boat.
Geography and climate
San Pancrazio (also called Isola Grande ) is the larger of the two islands and houses a botanical garden . The smaller island, called Isolino, Isola Piccola or Isola di Sant'Apollinare , is largely natural.
The island of Brissago has an insubric climate, which means that there is a lot of precipitation, but just as many hours of sunshine, and the annual mean temperature is accordingly high at around 14 ° C. This means that the island has by far the warmest climate in Switzerland. As a result, a wide variety of palm and plant species thrive magnificently, which otherwise do not occur at these latitudes, and there are no ice days on the islands.
history
The islands had been inhabited since Roman times at the latest. Archaeological finds are now in Locarno in the museum. There were two churches here in the Middle Ages. The islanders temporarily achieved a certain autonomy vis-à-vis the lords of Milan and later vis-à-vis the Confederation. Around 1875 a dynamite factory was to be built on the islands to supply the nitroglycerin for the construction of the Gotthard tunnel . However, there was only preliminary work.
The islands were owned by the German-Russian Baroness Antoinette de Saint Léger from 1885 to 1927 , who kept a large house there, laid out a botanical garden and had a pavilion built. When it was economically at an end due to daring speculations in 1927, it sold the islands to the German department store millionaire Max Emden . He had the pavilion demolished and a new villa built, as well as an orangery and port, all of which still exist today. After his death in 1940, his son, who emigrated to Chile, inherited the islands. He sold them in 1949 to the canton of Ticino , which opened the islands to the public as a botanical garden. In addition to the canton of Ticino, the owners today are the municipalities of Ascona , Brissago and Ronco sopra Ascona .
Attractions
- Romanesque church of Sant'Apollinare, on Isolino
- cantonal botanical garden
- medieval cult building
- Villa Emden
literature
- Willy Zeller: Isole di Brissago - The Brissago Islands. 1970.
- Giuseppe Mondada: The Brissago Islands past and present. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1981.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 210.
- Francesco Welti: The department store king and the beauty in Ticino. Max Emden and the Brissago Islands. Huber, Frauenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7193-1551-1 .
photos
Islands of Brissago
villa
Palm forest
Landing stage
Isola Grande
See also
Web links
- Site of the botanical garden on the Isole di Brissago
- Isole di Brissago on ticinarte.ch
- Federal inventory ISOS: Isole di Brissago
- Brissago Islands on Lake Maggiore - travel blog at littlecity.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isola Grande at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ↑ Isola Piccola at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ↑ Isole di Brissago - Parco Botanico on ticino.ch
- ↑ Paradise for Sale. In: Der Spiegel . No. 16/1949 of April 15, 1949.
- ↑ a b c d Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 210.
- ↑ cantonal botanical garden
- ↑ medieval cult buildings
- ↑ Villa Emden on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node