Claro TI

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Claro
Claro coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Bellinzona districtw
Circle : Bellinzona district
Municipality : Bellinzonai2
Postal code : 6702
former BFS no. : 5282
Coordinates : 722 297  /  123 696 coordinates: 46 ° 15 '13 "  N , 9 ° 1' 29"  O ; CH1903:  722,297  /  one hundred twenty-three thousand six hundred ninety-six
Height : 270  m above sea level M.
Area : 21.22  km²
Residents: 2921 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 138 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bellinzona.ch
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Parish council before the merger on April 1st, 2017
View of Claro with the cable car leading to the monastery
Santa Maria Assunta Monastery
Former Claro station

Claro , in the alpine Lombard local dialect Crè [kr] , is a district of the municipality of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 1, 2017, Claro formed an independent political municipality .

Pronunciation of Claro

geography

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)

The village is located on the left bank of the Ticino , on the cantonal road Biasca- Bellinzona. The groups Scubiago, Duno, Brogo, Cassero and Torrazza also belong to Claro.

history

Claro was first mentioned in 1120 as locus Clari , when the owners at the time, minor vassals of the Archbishop of Milan , ceded their property to the cathedral chapter. However, as archaeological grave finds show, the settlement of the municipality goes back to the Bronze Age .

From the time of the late 11th and late 12th centuries, an administrative building each of the Milanese and Locarnese, who at that time owned tithes in Claro, have been preserved . Between 1402 and 1422 and from 1449 to 1798 the place was under the common rule of the original cantons Uri , Schwyz and Nidwalden (Landvogtei Riviera). In 1803 he came to the newly founded Canton of Ticino.

In 1874 Claro received a (now closed) station on the Gotthard Railway . In 2017 it was incorporated into Bellinzona.

population

Population development
year 1567 1801 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2016
Residents 800 829 962 920 934 2159 2588 2921

Attractions

  • The parish church of Santi Rocco e Sebastiano in the Brogo district dates from the 16th and 17th centuries and has splendid stucco decorations on the inside .
  • The Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria Assunta, founded in 1490 and expanded in the 17th century, sits enthroned on a rocky plateau above the town, at an altitude of 621 meters . The community of around a dozen nuns lives in seclusion. The monastery can be reached via a forest road, a cable car or an old mule track. The overall appearance of the buildings is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.
  • The church of Santi Nazario e Celso in the Scubiago district was first mentioned in 1207 and completely rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries. Inside there are remains of frescoes from the Renaissance and the 17th century.
  • The cemetery church of San Lorenzo in the district of Cassero is a single-nave Baroque building with a Romanesque tower from the 11th century.
  • Remains of three medieval fortifications: Cortauro in the district of Duno (around 1200), so-called Castello dei Magoria in the district of Matro (end of the 13th century?) And traces of a castle above the chapel of San Ambrogio.

Sports

  • Football Club Claro

Personalities

  • Ubertino da Gnosca (* 1330 in Gnosca , mentioned from 1362 Claro, † before 1407 in Claro), received the half tithing Capitanei of Locarno and the cathedral Milan states
  • Tomaso Pagnamenta (1855–1930), judge and politician
  • Federico Marioni (born June 23, 1866 in Claro; † February 28, 1938 in Milan ), graphic artist, lithographer, engraver
  • Alberto Totti (born June 23, 1903 in Claro, † March 23, 1947 in Bellinzona ), lawyer, praetor of Riviera , journalist of Il Lavoro, mayor of Claro
  • Mario Marioni (born September 2, 1910 in Milan, † March 18, 1987 in Mendrisio , citizen of Claro), painter, engraver, illustrator

literature

Web links

Commons : Claro TI  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol, Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 249.
  2. ^ Giuseppe Chiesi: Claro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Art guide through Switzerland. Completely revised edition. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Volume 2. GSK, Bern 2005, p. 502.
  4. ↑ a b c Art guide through Switzerland. Completely revised edition. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Volume 2. GSK, Bern 2005, p. 503.
  5. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Football Club Claro on portal.dnb.de (accessed on May 4, 2016.)
  7. ↑ Paolo Ostinelli: Ubertino da Gnosca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 15, 2004 , accessed December 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Federico Marioni. In: Sikart , accessed January 20, 2016.
  9. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 28.
  10. ^ Maria Will: Mario Marioni. In: Sikart (status: 1998) , accessed January 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ Patricia Cavadini-Bielander: The Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria Assunta sopra Claro on portal.dnb.de (accessed on May 4, 2016.)