Calpiogna
Calpiogna | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Leventina district | |
Circle : | Faido County | |
Municipality : | Faido | |
Postal code : | 6760 | |
former BFS no. : | 5066 | |
Coordinates : | 704 990 / 149279 | |
Height : | 1143 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 3.3 km² | |
Residents: | 50 (December 31, 2011) | |
Population density : | 15 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.faido.ch | |
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Until March 31, 2012, Calpiogna was a political municipality in the Faido district in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . In 1853 the now independent municipality of Campello separated from the municipality.
geography
The village of Calpiogna is located on a sunny terrace on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at 1143 m above sea level. M. and had only 37 inhabitants at the end of 2007, at the end of 2002 there were 46. The municipality of Calpiogna includes Prodör, which is a well-known Ticino holiday resort with Carì , and the lower-lying village of Primadengo.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1246 as Calpiognia . In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the vicinìa Faido and the parish Faido- Mairengo . In 1577 it already had a chapel dedicated to St. Eutychios . In 1665 the chapel was rebuilt and consecrated to St. Athanasius. In 1651 the chapel of St. Anthony of Padua was built in Primadengo . At the beginning of the 19th century, it still comprised Campello TI , which was separated from the church in 1837 and civilly in 1853 and became a separate church and political community.
Merger with Faido
On April 1, 2012, it merged with the municipalities of Anzonico , Campello , Cavagnago , Chironico , Mairengo and Osco to form the existing municipality of Faido .
In a referendum in March 2004, the citizens of Calpiogna rejected the merger of their municipality with Faido, Osco, Mairengo, Campello, Anzonico, Rossura , Calonico , Chiggiogna , Cavagnago and Sobrio , although the municipality has few resources and is financially completely dependent on the canton .
population
Population development | ||||||||
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year | 1639 | 1745 | 1850 | 1860 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2011 |
Residents | 93 | 211 | 354 | 181 | 147 | 99 | 40 | 50 |
Attractions
The village of Primadengo is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.
- Parish Church of Sant'Atanasio
- Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova (1651) in the Primadengo district
- Oratory Santa Famiglia (1885) in the Prodör district with a mural by Rosalia Grimaldi (1990)
- Various praying chapels (17th and 19th centuries).
Personalities
- Atanasio Del Pietro (* around 1880 in Calpiogna; † around 1945 there), farmer and Ticino Grand Councilor
- Luigi Del Pietro (born July 1, 1906 in Calpiogna, † August 29, 1977 in Lugano ), priest, syndicalist Antonio Gili: Luigi del Pietro. In: Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 19, 118-125.
- Agostino Del Pietro (* 1957 in Faido ), Provincial of the Swiss Capuchins
literature
- Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, pp. 210, 212.
- Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Calpiogna. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939; the same (ed.): Calpiogna. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948.
- Mario Fransioli: Calpiogna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 133.
- Celestino Trezzini : Calpiogna. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, pp. 474–475 ( digitized version ), (accessed on July 15, 2017).
Web links
- Website of the Faido municipality
- Faido municipality data
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Faido (Italian)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Calpiogna (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Primadengo (PDF; 627 kB)
- Faido-Calpiogna: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Calpiogna on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mario Fransioli: Calpiogna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Calpiogna ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 15, 2017).
- ↑ Mario Fransioli: Calpiogna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2016 .
- ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 133.
- ↑ Parish Church of Sant'Atanasio (photo)
- ↑ Oratorio Sant'Antonio da Padova (photo)
- ^ Fabrizio Panzera: Luigi Del Pietro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 1, 2004 , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ^ Fabrizio Panzera: Luigi Del Pietro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 1, 2004 , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Luigi Del Pietro biography (Italian) on fmdp.ch/biografia-di-monsignor-del-pietro/
- ↑ Agostino Del Pietro, Provincial of the Swiss Capuchins on kapuziner.ch/blog (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)