Colla TI

Colla

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Lugano district

Circle :

District of Lugano North

Municipality :

Lugano

Postal code :

6959

Coordinates :

724 928 / 105818 coordinates: 46 ° 5 '32 " N , 9 ° 3' 14" O ; CH1903: 724,928 / 105818

Height :

996 m above sea level M.

Website:

www.lugano.ch

map

Parish before the 1956 merger

Colla village

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

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).

[Martinoli-1] 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.

[2] 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).