Fusio

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Vallemaggia district

Circle :

Lavizzara district

Municipality :

Lavizzara

Postal code :

6696

Coordinates :

693 978 / 144325 coordinates: 46 ° 26 '37 " N , 8 ° 39' 42" O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred seventy-eight / 144325

Height :

1289 m above sea level M.

Area :

60.78 km²

Residents:

50 (2006)

Population density :

1 inhabitant per km²

Website:

www.lavizzara.ch

Fusio

map

Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004

Fusio was an independent municipality and included the Mogno fraction; today is a fraction of the political municipality Lavizzara in the Lavizzara district, in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village is at 1281 m above sea level. M. in the upper section of Val Lavizzara , at the foot of Pizzo di Röd (2699 m above sea level) and 44 km from Locarno .

history

The village was first mentioned as Fuxio in 1374. Fusio belonged to the great vicinìa Lavizzara, which was dissolved on September 10, 1374 as a result of the formation of the municipality of Broglio TI , Prato (Vallemaggia) , Sornico , Peccia and Fusio. A remnant of the earlier community still exists in the communella Fusio-Peccia-Prato-Sornico.

Community merger

The previously independent political municipality Fusio was merged on April 4, 2004 with the former municipalities Broglio , Brontallo , Menzonio , Peccia and Prato-Sornico to form the municipality Lavizzara.

population

Population development
year	1591	1799	1801	1850	1900	1920	1950	1990	2000	2006
Residents	120 households	257	241	236	161	137	136	37	45	50

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 Santa Maria Assunta
Church of San Giovanni Battista in the Mogno fraction with ossuary
Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the Fontanedo fraction
Prayer chapel Madonna delle Grazie
Prayer Chapel di Dazzi
Mill dei Guglielmoni
Dazio Mill
Old Torba (granary)
Old car wash
Early medieval settlement in the Mott Dorei district

Personalities

The Balli family of Fusio, mentioned since the 13th century, with branches in Cavergno and Locarno (from the end of the 18th century). The latter, together with the Rusca, held the patronage rights over the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Locarno. From the 16th century onwards, members of the family, which was characterized by a remarkable hiking tradition, worked as architects in Leitmeritz ; in the 17th century representatives of the Balli from the Maggia Valley stayed in Rome .
- Valentino Balli (* 1764 in Fusio; † 1825 in Groningen ), founder of the Balli trading house.

Fusio
Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta
Parish church
Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta interior
Sambuco reservoir
Sambuco reservoir
Naret Dam
Dam of the Naretsee
Rural house
Sambuco reservoir
Stone bridge over the Lavizzara
Campolungo Pass

literature

Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
Guglielmo Buetti: Note Storiche Religiose delle Chiese e Parrocchie della Pieve di Locarno, (1902), e della Verzasca, Gambarogno, Valle Maggia e Ascona (1906). 2nd edition, Pedrazzini Edizioni, Locarno 1969.
Adriano Caprioli, Antonio Rimoldi, Luciano Vaccaro: Diocesi di Como. La Scuola, Brescia 1986, p. 234.
Uria Cerini, Armando Donati, Nicoletta Dutly Bondietti (eds.): Mills, rammers and other hydroelectric machines in Fusio. APAV, Cevio 2012.

Flavio Maggi: Patriziati e patrizi ticinesi. Pramo Edizioni, Viganello 1997.

Daniela Pauli Falconi: Fusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .

Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 249, 254, 255, 277, 280, 291, 293, 332, 342-343, 348-349, 374-378, 406-408, 416.

Celestino Trezzini : Fusio. ( Digitized version ) In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 3, Freiburg - Galmiz. , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1926, p. 365.

Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera: Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, p. 277 Note.

Art history

Piero Bianconi : Fusio. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, p. 32; the same: Mogno. In: Ibidem. , P. 11.
Giulio Foletti, Maria Rosaria Regolati Duppenthaler, Flavio Zappa: Fusio: chiesa parrochiale di S. Maria Assunta: la storia e il restauro. Parrocchia di Fusio c / o Studiodigrafica Grizzi, Fusio 2013.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Fusio. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 262, 266-267.

Web links

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

Fusio on the ETHorama platform
Official website of the municipality of Lavizzara
Data from the Lavizzara municipality
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Lavizzara (Italian)
Fusio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Fusio (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Fusio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Fusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
↑ Fusio in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Fusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .
↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 262, 266–267.
↑ Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)
↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 407.
↑ Early medieval settlement in the Mott Dorei district
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Balli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th December 2014 .
^ Family Balli in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Balli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th December 2014 .

[1] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Fusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .

[2] Fusio in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)

[3] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Fusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .

[4] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 262, 266–267.

[6] Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)

[7] Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 407.

[8] Early medieval settlement in the Mott Dorei district

[9] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Balli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th December 2014 .

[10] Family Balli in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)

[11] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Balli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th December 2014 .