Carabbia

Carabbia ; district of Lugano
Coordinates	716 258 / 92449 coordinates: 45 ° 58 '25 " N , 8 ° 56' 19" O ; CH1903: 716 258 / 92449
height	Ø 523 m
surface	1.07 km²
Residents	599 (December 31, 2015)
Population density	560 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 20, 2008
BFS no.	519-2022
Post Code	6913

Parish before the merger on April 20, 2008

Guglielmo Caccia: Madonna col Bambino tra i Santi Giacomo Maggiore e Francesco d'Assisi.

Carabbia is a district of the city of Lugano in the Lugano West district , in the Lugano district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

The village is 526 m above sea level. M. on the western slope of Monte San Salvatores , four kilometers southwest of Lugano on the road to Carona TI .

history

The village was first mentioned as Carabio in 1213 . Roman graves were discovered here. The Torello monastery owned a hospice in Carabbia, to which the village had to pay a fee. In the 15th century Carabbia was an independent municipality and had to provide ten soldiers to the Duke of Milan . The former Vicinia was headed by a consul who was elected in turn from each family; Families in which there was no man had to be represented. Until 1825, Carabbia also included the current municipality of Grancia .

Merger with Lugano

On September 30, 2007, the voters of Barbengo , Carabbia and Villa Luganese approved the incorporation of these three municipalities into the city of Lugano. The former political municipality of Carabbia has belonged to Lugano since April 20, 2008.

population

Population development
year	1590	1696	1801	1850	1900	1950	1960	2000	2015	2019
Residents	110	143	227	143	138	122	110	512	599	615

Attractions

Parish Church of San Siro preserves the painting Madonna col Bambino tra i Santi Giacomo Maggiore e Francesco d'Assisi by the painter Guglielmo Caccia called Moncalvo.
Rectory
Laurenti house

Northern part of the village of Carabbia below the San Salvatore
Parish Church of San Siro in Carabbia
Interior view of the Church of San Siro in Carabbia
Southern part of the village of Carabbia
Casa Laurenti

Culture

ABC Amici della Biblioteca

Personalities

Laurenti family of artists
- Mathias Lorentisch , (around 1580–1654) sculptor
- Johann Lorentisch , (1610–1666) sculptor
- Anselmo Laurenti (born June 11, 1845 in Carabbia; † 1913 there?), Sculptor
- Silvio Laurenti (* 1943), President of the Hockey Club Lugano (since 2009)

Giuseppe Oliva (born November 11, 1851 in Carabbia; † September 6, 1922 in Lugano ), priest, vice- rector of the Lugano seminary, Canon of Lugano, journalist for the newspaper Il Credente Cattolico

Ilse Kubaschewski (1907–2001), German film distributor and film producer

Cristina Zanini Barzaghi (born August 24, 1964), engineer, politician, member of the municipal administration of the city of Lugano

literature

Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 266-267.
Antonio Gili: Carabbia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 343-344.
Giovanni Sarinelli: Note storiche sulla Ven.da Parrocchia di San Siro in Carabbia nell'Amministrazione Apostolica Ticinese con Accenni Comunali - Vignette e Statistiche. Grassi & C. Tipografi-Editori, Lugano 1911.
Celestino Trezzini : Carabbia. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, pp. 491, 492 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Carabbia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Quartier Carabbia at www.lugano.ch
Carabbia: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Fausto Tettamanti: Carabbia on portal.dnb.de (accessed on November 22, 2016).
Carabbia on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Antonio Gili: Carabbia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .
↑ Population of Carabbia at the end of 2019 on statistica.lugano.ch/site/demografia/
↑ ^a ^b ^c Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 343-344.
↑ Anselmo Laurenti. In: Sikart , accessed January 24, 2016.
^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 23.
↑ Cristina Zanini Barzaghi

[1] Antonio Gili: Carabbia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .

[2] Population of Carabbia at the end of 2019 on statistica.lugano.ch/site/demografia/

[Martinoli-3] Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 343-344.

[4] Anselmo Laurenti. In: Sikart , accessed January 24, 2016.

[5] Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 23.

[6] Cristina Zanini Barzaghi