Curio TI

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

Curio

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Lugano districtw
Circle :	Magliasina district
BFS no. :	5181i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6986
Coordinates :	710 495 / 95498 coordinates: 46 ° 0 '7 " N , 8 ° 51' 54" O ; CH1903: 710495 / 9549846,002 8,865 569
Height :	569 m above sea level M.
Height range :	338–1107 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.75 km²
Residents:	559 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	203 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.curio.ch
San Pietro Church
Location of the municipality
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Curio is a municipality in the county Magliasina of the district Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

The municipality is located in central Malcantone around 3 kilometers west of Agno in the southwest of the canton. The village is 556 m above sea level. M. on the south slope of 746 m above sea level. M. high Sciaroni (also Gheggio) above the valley of the Magliasina on the brook Riale di Molge . This forms a small gorge below the village before it flows into the Magliasina, which marks the entire eastern and northeastern municipal boundary. In the southwest rises the 813 m above sea level. M. high wooded hill I Mundínn (Monte Mondini), on the western slope of which extends an area of around 0.1 km², which is only connected to the rest of the municipality by a narrow corridor. Northwest of Curio lies at 588 m above sea level. M. below the Monte Lema on the southeast slope of the Motto Croce the exclave Bombinasco.

The neighboring municipalities are Aranno , Astano , Bedigliora , Bioggio , Croglio , Neggio , Novaggio , Pura , Sessa and Vernate .

history

In 1196 the village is first mentioned in writing as Coira , later (1298) it appears as Cuyri . In 1352 a church dedicated to St. Peter is mentioned. The municipalities of Curio and Bedigliora fought for a long time about Bombinasco, a hamlet between Astano , Bedigliora and Sessa TI ; In 1850 he was finally beaten to Curio. The current village church dates from 1609.

On November 4, 2014, a serious landslide from Malcantone occurred in the municipality of Curio , in which two people died. The road to Bombinasco (fraction of the municipality of Curio) was then closed between Astano and Banco .

population

Population development
year	1801	1900	1910	1950	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2012	2014	2016	2017
Residents	245	340	275	286	288	419	535	553	548	517	537	559	546	544

traffic

The village is on a side street between Novaggio and Pura. This leads via Pura to Caslano on Lake Lugano , where it joins the main road 398 . Above Curio, a side road branches off that leads via Banco to the hamlet of Bombinasco. Another side street connects Curio with Bedigliora.

Attractions

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

Parish Church of San Pietro
In the parish church of San Pietro: painting of the patron and reliquary
Pilgrimage chapel Madonna della Morella with a fresco inside: Madonna and Saints Lucia and Caterina, painted in 1597 by Domenico Banchini from Curio
Former drawing school (today “Museo del Malcantone”), architect: Luigi Fontana (1812–1877) from Muggio ; the museum opened in 1989 and is located in a neoclassical building from 1853. It deals with the culture and history of the Malcantone
In the church della Santissima Trinità in the district of Bombinasco: Paliotto in stucco marble # Scagliola .

Culture

Associazione culturale Lo Sgambetto.

Sports

Associazione Calcistica Lema

Personalities

coat of arms

The village of Curio has a wolf's head in its coat of arms. Legend has it that in 1885 a wolf terrorized the village. The residents decided to hunt him down. But then a fire broke out in a house where a baby was sleeping. The wolf carried the baby out of the burning house.

photos

Museo del Malcantone
Madonna della Morella
Madonna della Morella, interior view

literature

Ernesto W. Alther, Ermanno Medici: Curio e Bombinasco dagli albori. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1993.
Virgilio Chiesa : Curio. In: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Tipografia Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1961.
Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Curio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 12, 2005 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Renato Giovannoli: Il Vello d'Oro e il mistero di Garavee. In: Giornale del Popolo . August 20, 2011, pp. 22-23.
Luigi G. Herz: Di lasco e di bolina. Una disputa medico-farmacologica sul “solfato indigeno febbrifugo”, tra Lombardia e Ticino, 1846–1848. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. No. 147. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010.
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. 390–409.
Ermanno Medici: Curio. Note di storia. Florence 1960.
Nicola Navone (Ed.): Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie di costruttori nella Russia degli zar. Mendrisio Academy Press, Mendrisio 2009.
Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Curio. In: Malcantone. Testimonianze culturali nei comuni malcantonesi. Lugano-Agno 1985, pp. 32-35, 37, 61.
Celestino Trezzini : Curio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 654 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Curio TI on the ETHorama platform
Official website of the Municipality of Curio
Data from the municipality of Curio
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Curio
Federal inventory ISOS: Curio (PDF; 6.1 MB)
Curio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Website of the Museum of the Malcantone
Curio on elexikon.ch

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: Curio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 15, 2005 .
↑ Bombinasco at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 27, 2017).
↑ Landslide kills mother and three-year-old daughter
↑ Landslide tore the house with it: wife and child died in Switzerland
^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Curio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 15, 2005 .
↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on June 3, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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. 390–409.
^ Website of the Museo del Malcantone
^ Associazione Calcistica Lema

[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: Curio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 15, 2005 .

[3] Bombinasco at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 27, 2017).

[4] Landslide kills mother and three-year-old daughter

[5] Landslide tore the house with it: wife and child died in Switzerland

[6] Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Curio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 15, 2005 .

[7] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on June 3, 2016.

[Martinoli-8] 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. 390–409.

[9] Website of the Museo del Malcantone

[10] Associazione Calcistica Lema