Castione TI

TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Castione .

Castione

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Bellinzona districtw
Circle :	Bellinzona district
Municipality :	Arbedo Castionei2
Postal code :	6532
Coordinates :	724.24 thousand / 120798 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '38 " N , 9 ° 2' 57" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-four thousand two hundred forty / 12079846.22716 9.04908 242
Height :	242 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.64 km²
Residents:	1513 (December 31, 2012)
Population density :	573 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.arbedocastione.ch
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Castione is a village in the political municipality of Arbedo-Castione in the Bellinzona district , in the Bellinzona district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

The village lies at an altitude of 278 m above sea level. M. on the left bank of Ticino , about three kilometers north of Bellinzona , an important traffic junction. Neighboring municipalities are: Bellinzona, Sant'Antonio TI , Lumino TI . Roveredo GR , Gnosca and Gorduno .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1237 under the then name Castillionum . 84 graves from the First Iron Age and those from the Gallic period were discovered here. The church of San Pietro in Bellinzona had tithing rights as early as the 13th century, for which the vicinia Lumino-Castione and the Bellinzones chapter fought for a long time from 1463 . Castione originally belonged to the vicinia Lumino Castione, then it was separated from it as an independent municipality; since 1820 it has belonged to the municipality of Arbedo.

This is where the Battle of Castione took place on July 6, 1449.

population

Population development
year	1583	1698	1801	1808	1845	1900	2011	2012
Residents	200	126	36	40	366	192	1481	1513

Attractions

Church of Santi Gottardo and Nicola di Bari
Old house Muggiasca, in via Tenza,
primary school
Bourgeois house in via Della Campagna
Former home of Ernesto Luini
Antonini SA Graniti e Marmi building (1991/1992), architect: Renato Magginetti .

Personalities

Giovanni Antonio Gioiero (* 1570 in Castaneda , † September 16, 1624 in Castione), warden in the Calanca and Podesta of Morbegno
Renato Lafranchi (* 1942), politician, painter

literature

Virgilio Gilardoni : Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Edizioni dello Stato. Bellinzona 1955, pp. 183-186; Idem: Il Romanico. Arte e monumenti della Lombardia prealpina . Istituto grafico Casagrande, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 280, 301, 396.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 60-61.
Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 3.
Martin Peter Schindler, Giuseppe Chiesi: Castione. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 4, 2009 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
Celestino Trezzini : Castione. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 517 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Alessandra Maffioli: Battle of Castione. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 29, 2003 , accessed April 6, 2020 .
^ Celestino Trezzini : Castione. ( Digitized version ).
^ Gilardoni, 1967, 280.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 60–61.
↑ Church of Santi Gottardo and Nicola di Bari (photo)
↑ Old house Muggiasca: - Inventory dei beni culturali
↑ Old house Muggiasca (photo)
↑ Primary school (photo)
^ Cesare Santi: Giovanni Antonio Gioiero. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 2, 2004 , accessed April 6, 2020 .
↑ Renato Lafranchi on portal.dnb.de (accessed March 8, 2017).

[1] Alessandra Maffioli: Battle of Castione. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 29, 2003 , accessed April 6, 2020 .

[2] Celestino Trezzini : Castione. ( Digitized version ).

[3] Gilardoni, 1967, 280.

[Martinoli-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 60–61.

[5] Church of Santi Gottardo and Nicola di Bari (photo)

[6] Old house Muggiasca: - Inventory dei beni culturali

[7] Old house Muggiasca (photo)

[8] Primary school (photo)

[9] Cesare Santi: Giovanni Antonio Gioiero. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 2, 2004 , accessed April 6, 2020 .

[10] Renato Lafranchi on portal.dnb.de (accessed March 8, 2017).