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Iragna
Coat of arms of Iragna
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Riviera districtw
Circle : Riviera district
Municipality : Rivierai2
Postal code : 6707
former BFS no. : 5284
Coordinates : 717 725  /  132043 coordinates: 46 ° 19 '46 "  N , 8 ° 58' 3"  O ; CH1903:  717725  /  132043
Height : 294  m above sea level M.
Area : 18.3  km²
Residents: 561 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 31 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.comuneriviera.ch
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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017
Parish Church of Santi Martiri Maccabei
Prayer chapel
Lona fortress bunker

Iragna was a political municipality in the Riviera district of the Swiss canton of Ticino until April 1, 2017 . On April 2, 2017, Iragna merged with the former municipalities of Cresciano , Lodrino and Osogna to form the new municipality of Riviera .

geography

The municipality stretches largely over the Val d'Iragna , which is traversed by the Riale d'Iragna and extends to the Poncione Rosso ( 2506  m above sea level ), which forms the border with the Val Verzasca . The valley, which is now heavily forested, once had extensive Alpine farming, but today all the Alps have been abandoned and it is relatively wild.

The village itself is located at the mouth of the Val d'Iragna on the right side of the valley of the Riviera . It is 294  m above sea level. M. and lay over the course of the river Ticino , which today runs straightened further east and forms the municipality boundary. Today there is a wooded wetland with several ponds on the former course of the river.

history

The village is first mentioned in 1210 as Vicinia von Inagna . It used to belong to the Leventina Valley with Prosito , Lodrino and Moleno and sent ten members to the Council of the Valley. Since 1441, at the time the Leventina was ceded to the canton of Uri , it was no longer part of it. At that time, the Duke of Milan excluded Iragna and Lodrino (with Prosito and Moleno) from this assignment; Until the final conquest by the Swiss, these formed a ducal vicariate under the government of a vicar who the villages themselves chose.

population

Population development
year 1567 1801 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 400 209 374 344 260 491 551 557 563 561

Attractions

  • Santi Martiri Maccabei Church
  • Bridge della Torre
  • Bridge in the village
  • Lona fortress bunker
  • Two shell stones in the Monte Pont district (883 m above sea level)

Sports

  • Giovani Calciatori Iragna (Football Club)

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, pp. 207, 212.
  • Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Iragna. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, p. 97.
  • Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
  • Giuseppe Chiesi: Iragna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 374-375, 383, 484.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 76.
  • Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Iragna. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 165-180.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Iragna. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, Hoescheller - Jestetten. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1927, p. 359 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giuseppe Chiesi: Iragna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c 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 , p. 76.
  3. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, pp. 74–76.
  4. ↑ Giovani Calciatori Iragna (Football Club)
  5. ↑ Giuseppe Vaccaro, sculptor on giuseppevaccaro.ch