Colla TI
Colla | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Lugano district | |
Circle : | District of Lugano North | |
Municipality : | Lugano | |
Postal code : | 6959 | |
Coordinates : | 724 928 / 105818 | |
Height : | 996 m above sea level M. | |
Website: | www.lugano.ch | |
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Until 1955, Colla was a political municipality in the Lugano district in the Swiss canton of Ticino . After two municipal mergers, the village of Colla is now part of the municipality of Lugano .
geography
The hamlet is located at the upper end of the Val Colla at an altitude of 996 m. ü. M., at the southern foot of the 2116 m above sea level. M. high Gazzirola. The San Lucio Pass (1541 m above sea level) leads from here to the Italian municipality of Cavargna .
history
In 1956 Colla merged with the municipalities of Scareglia , Insone , Piandera and Signôra to form the new municipality of Valcolla , which has been part of Lugano since 2013 . As a local civil parish (patriciate) it still exists today.
Attractions
Sacred buildings
- Parish Church of Santi Pietro and Paolo
- Oratory Madonna del Carmine in the district of Cozzo, built in 1819
- Oratory of San Luigi IX and Sant'Anna, in the Curtina district, built in the 16th century; again in 1850 and 1920
Civil buildings
- Covered wooden bridge under the Curtina district over the Cassarate
- another wooden bridge in the district of Molino
Personalities
- Angelo Bassi (* around 1790 in Colla; † December 9, 1846 ibid), priest, pastor of Colla, 1834–1846 member of the Ticino Grand Council.
literature
- Bernhard Other: Guida d'Arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980, p. 295.
- Maurizio Cattaneo, Alberto Gandolla: Valcolla. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 382-383.
- Celestino Trezzini : Colla. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2: Cavadini - Daegerlen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 600 f ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Ufficio di statistica del Cantone Ticino: Valcolla
- Local civil parish of Colla
- Colla on elexikon.ch.
- Colla: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 382.
- ↑ Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume II, p. 42, Article Article Angelo Bassi (digitized from biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz; accessed on June 5, 2017).