Faido

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Faido
Faido Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Leventina districtw
Circle : Faido County
BFS no. : 5072i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6745 Chiggiogna
6746 Calonico
6747 Chironico
6748 Anzonico
6749 Cavagnago
6749 Sobrio
6760 Calpiogna
6760 Campello
6760 Faido
6760 Rossura
6763 Osco
6763 Mairengo
Coordinates : 704 502  /  148420 coordinates: 46 ° 28 '44 "  N , 8 ° 47' 58"  O ; CH1903:  704502  /  148420
Height : 711  m above sea level M.
Height range : 454–3069 m above sea level M.
Area : 132.59  km²
Residents: 2903 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 22 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.faido.ch
Faido train station

Faido train station
Location of the municipality
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Faido ( listen ? / I , German Pfaid (obsolete), dialect Fait ) is a political municipality and capital of the Faido district and the Leventina district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . Audio file / audio sample  

geography

The village, capital of the district, is 721 m above sea level. M. on the left bank of the Ticino (river) and on the Airolo - Bellinzona road , a station of the Gotthard Railway , in the Leventina Valley (Livinental). A few years ago it only comprised the valley floor ; in the meantime, however, all the earlier municipalities of the central Leventina valley below the Piottino have merged to the Biaschina .

The neighboring municipalities of Faido are (alphabetically) Acquarossa , Blenio , Dalpe , Giornico , Lavizzara , Quinto TI and Sonogno .

history

Faido, historical aerial photo from 1931, taken by Walter Mittelholzer
Faido train station towards the end of the 19th century

The place was first mentioned in 1171 as Faedo . In the spring of 2004, the residents of Faido approved the merger of their municipality with Chiggiogna , Osco , Mairengo , Calpiogna , Campello , Rossura , Calonico , Anzonico , Cavagnago and Sobrio in a referendum. The mountain village of Aldescio at 1550  m above sea level has also been part of the municipality since 2005 . M. on a southern slope above Chiggiogna.

Since most of the municipalities rejected the merger, the new municipality was initially only formed from Faido, Chiggiogna, Rossura and Calonico. On June 5, 2005, the new merger proposal was approved in a referendum and the legally binding merger took place on January 29, 2006.

On April 1, 2012, Faido merged with the municipalities of Anzonico, Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico , Mairengo and Osco. As a result of the merger, the population increased from 1527 inhabitants (as of the end of 2005, old municipality) to around 3000 inhabitants (new municipality of Faido). On April 10, 2016 Faido merged with Sobrio.

population

Population development
year 1639 1745 1850 1880 1900 1950 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2012 2016 2018
Residents 255 383 704 1293 860 1172 3657 3724 3306 3206 2978 3255 2978 2903

traffic

The construction of the national road N2 ( Autobahn 2 (Switzerland) ) presented the community with a practical test, because the official project envisaged an open route between the village center and the hospital . Supported by Robert Steiner, building advisor to the Swiss Homeland Security and Hans Marti , delegate for urban planning of the city of Zurich, both in the Hürlimann commission , it was possible to obtain a tunnel solution from Federal Councilor Hans-Peter Tschudi . At the opening, Bonvin was made an honorary citizen and Marti was made a guest of honor.

Local civil parish

Active local citizen families are Beltrami, Cappelletti, Caso, Cattaneo, Costa, Disteli, Grassi, Karpf, Lentini, Lucchini, Merzaghi, Pedrini, Picchiotini, Solari, Tagliabue, Vicari.

Attractions

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

  • Provost church of Sant'Andrea
  • Oratory of San Bernardino da Siena
  • Selvini house
  • Patrician palace, architect: Paolo Zanini
  • San Francesco d'Assisi Church and Capuchin Monastery
  • Monument to Federal Councilor Stefano Franscini
  • Torre dei Varesi
  • Piumogna waterfall near the town center

photos

  • Faido

  • Faido train station

  • hospital

  • School complex

  • Parish Church of Sant'Andrea

  • Church of San Francesco d'Assisi

  • Oratory of San Bernardino da Siena

  • Monument to Federal Councilor Stefano Franscini

economy

  • Faido is mainly characterized by the Gotthard motorway and the nearby Alp transit construction site for the Faido-Polmengo intermediate attack on the Gotthard base tunnel . Faido was the first municipality in Ticino to introduce electric light in 1889.
  • AlpTRansit San Gottardo SA
  • Cooperativa Elettrica Faido, electricity cooperative

Sports

  • Leventina Calcio
  • Football Club Drina

Personalities

literature

  • Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, p. 215 Note, 223, 225, 232, 241.
  • Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Faido. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 26, 30, 48, 63, 67; the same (ed.): Faido. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 77, 79.
  • Mario Fransioli: Faido. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 223, 298, 327, 402.
  • Kurt Held (Kläber): Faido's drummer. Youth novel. 1941.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 130.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 96-98.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Faido. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 3, Egolf - Fazy. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, pp. 105, 106 ( digitized version ).
  • Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera: Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, pp. 12, 18, 82, 84, 92, 128, 149, 150, 241, 253, 319, 320, 329, 407, 437.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Faido. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Faido. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  4. ^ Claude Ruedin et at .: Hans Marti - Pioneer of spatial planning. GTA, 2008.
  5. ↑ Patriziato di Faido on patriziatofaido.ch
  6. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 129-131.
  8. ↑ Church of San Francesco d'Assisi at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  9. ↑ Piumogna waterfall on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  10. ↑ AlpTRansit San Gottardo SA (accessed on: May 3, 2016.)
  11. ↑ Cooperativa Elettrica Faido in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 3, 2016.)
  12. ↑ Leventina Calcio  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mobile.football.ch  
  13. ^ Football Club Drina