Gentilino

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Lugano district

Circle :

Paradiso district

Municipality :

Collina d'Oro

Postal code :

6925

Coordinates :

715 795 / 94405 coordinates: 45 ° 59 '29 " N , 8 ° 55' 59" O ; CH1903: seven hundred fifteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-five / 94405

Height :

390 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.23 km²

Residents:

1328 (December 31, 2002)

Population density :

1080 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.collinadoro.com

Gentilino

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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004

Gentilino ( Gentilìn in Ticino dialect) is a village in the municipality of Collina d'Oro in the Paradiso district , in the Lugano district in the south of the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

The village is at 390 m above sea level. M. on the ridge d'Oro; 3.5 km southwest of the Lugano station of the Swiss Federal Railways .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1210 under the then name Gentarino .

Community merger

Until April 4, 2004, Gentilino was an independent political municipality, but was then merged in a municipality reform with Agra and Montagnola to form the new municipality of Collina d'Oro .

population

Population development
year	1591	1801	1850	1900	1920	1950	2000	2002
Residents	470	212	333	427	491	558	1328	1328

Attractions

Sant'Abbondio church and Monte San Salvatore in the background

Sant'Abbondio seen from the east

Grave of Hugo Ball and Emmy Ball-Hennings (1978)

Hermann Hesse's grave

The site with the church of Sant'Abbondio is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

Sacred buildings

Church of Sant'Abbondio
Museo di arte sacra
Ossuary
Way of the Cross
Neoclassical cemetery
Prayer Chapel San Pietro with fresco by the painter Emilio Ferrazzini (1934)
Oratorio Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio in the Ca 'di Sotto district
Oratory of San Giovanni Evangelista in the district of Viglio.

Civil buildings

Somazzi house in Via Ca 'di Sotto 15 with sgraffito on the facade (16th century)
Neoclassical Villa Donini in Via Bora da Besa 2 (1889)
Pasquale Lucchini's villa in Via Chioso 1
Palazzo Bora da Besa (1925), architect: Americo Marazzi
Palazzo Francesco Somazzi
Balmelli House
Palazzo Sant'Abbondio
Single-family house in Via ai Canvetti (1965/1966), architect: Tita Carloni
Detached house in Via ai Grotti 12 (1969/1970), architects: Mauro Buletti , Paolo Fumagalli
Villa Argentina in the district of Viglio with fresco Pietà above the portal.

Culture

Archivio Comunale Gentilino
Fondazione Circolo Franchi Liberali e Filarmonica Liberale-Radicale Collina d'Oro
Fondazione Balart

Industry

Hawe-Neos Dental

Personalities

literature

Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Gentilino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, p. 329.
A. Mario Redaelli: Storia e storie della Collina d'Oro. Editori Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1977.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 336-338.
Celestino Trezzini : Gentilino. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 3, Galmiton - Giovanni. Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, p. 475 ( digitized version ).
Edoardo Villata: Petrini inedito e seriale. Un nuovo Cristo crocifisso al Bigorio. In: Arte & Storia. 11th year, number 49, Edizioni Ticino Management, Lugano 2010.

Web links

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

Gentilino on the ETHorama platform
Website of the municipality of Collina d'Oro
Data from the municipality of Collina d'Oro
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Collina d'Oro
Gentilino: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Church of Sant'Abbondio (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Gentilino on elexikon.ch.

Individual evidence

^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Gentilino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 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 ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 336–338.
↑ Sant'Abbondio Church, Ossuary and Way of the Cross
^ Museo di arte sacra
^ Neoclassical cemetery
↑ Archivio Comunale Gentilino on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)
↑ Fondazione Circolo Franchi Liberali e Filarmonica Liberale-Radicale Collina d'Oro on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)
↑ Fondazione Balart on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)
↑ Hawe-Neos Dental on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)

[1] Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Gentilino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2016 .

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

[Martinoli-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 336–338.

[4] Sant'Abbondio Church, Ossuary and Way of the Cross

[5] Museo di arte sacra

[6] Neoclassical cemetery

[7] Archivio Comunale Gentilino on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)

[8] Fondazione Circolo Franchi Liberali e Filarmonica Liberale-Radicale Collina d'Oro on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)

[9] Fondazione Balart on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)

[10] Hawe-Neos Dental on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: August 4, 2016.)