Caslano

Caslano

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Lugano districtw
Circle :	Magliasina district
BFS no. :	5171i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6987
Coordinates :	711 960 / 92091 coordinates: 45 ° 58 '16 " N , 8 ° 52' 59" O ; CH1903: seven hundred eleven thousand nine hundred sixty / 9209145.97112 8.88309 272
Height :	272 m above sea level M.
Height range :	270-526 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.79 km²
Residents:	4356 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1561 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.caslano.ch
Caslano
Location of the municipality
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Parish Church of San Cristoforo

Villa Ferretti

lakeside

Villa Carolina (Museum of Fisheries)

The district of La Torrazza as seen from Lavena, Italy

Caslano is a municipality in the Magliasina district in the Lugano district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The village is 275 m above sea level. M. on Lake Lugano , near the mouth of the Magliasina and 3 km east of the station Ponte Tresa TI line Ponte Tresa- Lugano . Its area protrudes as a peninsula into Lake Lugano, the highest point of the peninsula is Monte Caslano with a height of 526 m above sea level. M. The municipality covers the right bank of the river estuary Magliasina, the old core is based on the Monte Caslano (or Sassalto) to the lake.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1126 as Castellano . According to tradition, it was built on a Roman fortification, the existence of which is indicated by the old place name Castellano , which was used until the 18th century, and the compact structure of the once fortified town center. The hamlets of Magliasina and Torrazza belong to the municipality. After bitter fighting with the municipality of Lavena Ponte Tresa, the village was finally assigned to the village in the Treaty of Varese concluded between the federal towns and the Duchy of Milan in 1604.

population

Population development
year	1801	1850	1900	1950	1970	1990	2000	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017
Residents	494	690	651	898	1489	2949	3495	3998	4090	4259	4256	4296	4339	4330

tourism

The community lives mainly from tourism. Caslano has a beautiful old village center on Lake Lugano. The village is connected to public transport by the Lugano-Ponte-Tresa railway . A golf course extends over the municipal area; the entrance is in the neighboring municipality of Magliaso . The municipalities of Ponte Tresa , Caslano and Magliaso are so heavily built up and grown together that the municipal boundaries are hardly recognizable.

In order to promote tourism in the region, the Associazione Turistica Malcantonese was founded on July 31, 1935 in Caslano . It has 27 congregations.

Commercial and industrial

The Chocolat Alprose has in Caslano based and produced there with around 100 employees chocolate for the retail trade. The company was founded in 1957 under the name Titlis-Chocolat and belongs to the Stollwerck Group, which was sold by Barry Callebaut to the Belgian barony in 2011 .

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

Sacred buildings

Parish Church of San Cristoforo
Chapel of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Cemetery with Azzi, Greppi and Vicari graves
Church of the Madonna del Rosario (Rosary Church; completed 1739) in the Magliasina district
Prayer chapel Santa Maria dei Greppi in the district of Magliasina
Prayer Chapel della Pietà

Museums

Museo della Pesca (Fisheries Museum) in Villa Carolina
Museo Sergio Maina
Alprose Chocolate Museum
Museo della fotografia Fondazione Vincenzo Vicari

Civil buildings

Villa Martini-Ferretti

Lucerne holiday apartment

Elementary and middle school (Architects: Mario Campi , Franco Pessina )

Residential building, via Martelli 17, (Architect: Aurelio Galfetti )

Residential building via Camparlungo 3, (Architects: Emilio Bernegger , Bruno Keller , Edy Quaglia )

Kindergarten (Architects: Emilio Bernegger, Edy Quaglia)

San Michele quarter (architect: Franco Ponti )

Former Landhaus Consul General Dr. D. , Via Bosconi 6 (Architect: Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot )

Residential house with fresco Madonna and Child

Residential house with fresco Madonna and Child and two saints

Various town houses; Valenghi town house with San Cristoforo fresco

Old lime blast furnace and brickworks in the Torrazza district

Sports

The football club Associazione Calcio Malcantone was created in 1999 from the merger of FC Caslano with FC Tresa / Monteggio.

Infrastructures

Pro Caslano
Duck Turistico del Malcantone

Personalities

literature

Adolfo Caldelari: Arte e Storia nel Ticino. ETT, Locarno 1975, pp. 118-119.
Virgilio Chiesa : Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Tipografia Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1961.
Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Caslano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 17, 2005 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, p. 277.
Nino Ezio Greppi: La Vicinia di Caslano (Ricerche storiche). Tipografia “Popolo d'Italia”, Milano 1931, in the Archivio storico della Svizzera italiana , 1929, booklets I and II.
Nino Ezio Greppi, Francesco Dario Palmisano: Documenti per la storia di Caslano: 1. La Vicinia di Caslano. (Nino Ezio Greppi, new edition); 2. Repertorio di vari temi riguardanti Caslano fino al 2007. (Palmisano), foreword by Mario Agliati, Verlag ASPT CH Ponte Tresa 2008.
Plinio Grossi: Il Malcantone. , Guida Galli-Tamburini, 2nd edition, Fontana Print SA Pregassona 1984, pp. 114-116, 142, 148.
Mario Jäggli: La vegetazione del Monte di Caslano. Edizione della Pro Malcantone, 1970.
Stephan Magyar, Armin von Moos: The mica-like clay in the triad of Mte Caslano, Kt. Ticino. Leemann, Zurich 1947.
Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 402-405.
Francesco Dario Palmisano: Ponte Tresa e Caslano a fronte sulle rive del lago Ceresio e nel corso della storia. Edited by Archivio Storico Ponte Tresa, Ponte Tresa 2007.
Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Caslano. In: Malcantone. Testimonianze culturali nei comuni malcantonesi. Lugano-Agno 1985, pp. 23, 26-29, 43.
Celestino Trezzini : Caslano. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 505 ( digitized version ).
Stefano Vassere, (Ed.): Caslano. In: Repertorio toponomastico ticinese. Book 24, Archivio di Stato, Bellinzona 2008.

Web links

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

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 .
^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Caslano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2005 .
^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Caslano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2005 .
^ Associazione Turistica Malcantonese In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini Bizzozero, Curio 2002, p. 244.
↑ Chocolat Alprose website
↑ Barry Callebaut sells Alprose to Belgium , Handelszeitung of July 11, 2011
↑ 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 ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 402–405.
↑ Museo della pesca
^ Museo Sergio Maina
↑ Alprose Chocolate Museum
^ Museo della fotografia Fondazione Vincenzo Vicari
^ Website of the Associazione Calcio Malcantone
^ Pro Caslano on portal.dnb.de (accessed on February 2, 2017).
↑ Ente Turistico del Malcantone in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)
↑ Stephan Magyar, Armin von Moos: The mica-like clay in the triad of Mte Caslano, Kt. Tessin. in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)

[1] 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 .

[2] Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Caslano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2005 .

[3] Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Caslano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2005 .

[4] Associazione Turistica Malcantonese In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini Bizzozero, Curio 2002, p. 244.

[5] Chocolat Alprose website

[6] Barry Callebaut sells Alprose to Belgium , Handelszeitung of July 11, 2011

[7] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-8] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 402–405.

[9] Museo della pesca

[10] Museo Sergio Maina

[11] Alprose Chocolate Museum

[12] Museo della fotografia Fondazione Vincenzo Vicari

[13] Website of the Associazione Calcio Malcantone

[14] Pro Caslano on portal.dnb.de (accessed on February 2, 2017).

[15] Ente Turistico del Malcantone in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)

[16] Stephan Magyar, Armin von Moos: The mica-like clay in the triad of Mte Caslano, Kt. Tessin. in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)