Leontica

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Leontica
Leontica coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Blenio districtw
Circle : Acquarossa district
Municipality : Acquarossai2
Postal code : 6716
Coordinates : 714 122  /  145793 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '14 "  N , 8 ° 55' 27"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred fourteen thousand one hundred twenty-two  /  145793
Height : 874  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.37  km²
Residents: 267 (2000)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.acquarossa.ch
Leontica

Leontica

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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Leontica

Leontica ( Lombard Lontia [ˈlontja, ˈlontia] ) is a village in the political municipality of Acquarossa, formed in 2004, in the Swiss canton of Ticino . Before that, it formed an independent community.

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village of Leontica is located in the central Blenio Valley at an altitude of 876 m above sea level. The former municipality stretched from the Brenno river to the slopes of the Nara (2330 m above sea level) and, in addition to the village of Leontica, also included the hamlet of Comprovasco, which is a little above the valley floor.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1204 as Levontega . The common name of the Lepontier is in the name . At that time it formed its own neighborhood (vicinìa), which belonged to the fagìa Malvaglia or de subtus . A decision by the Federal Supreme Court in 1926 put an end to the dispute with Corzoneso over Allmenden.

On April 4, 2004, the previously independent municipalities of Castro , Corzoneso , Dongio , Largario , Lottigna , Marolta , Ponto Valentino and Prugiasco merged to form the newly formed municipality of Acquarossa .

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista, mentioned for the first time in 1204, renovated 1778–1784 under the direction of Tommaso Colonetti; Church tower by Riccardo Gianella (1925). Inside a high altar (1780) by Carlo Andrea Galetti from San Fedele Intelvi and the three frescoes Battesimo di Cristo, Madonna Assunta and San Giovanni Evangelista by the painter Lorenzo Peretti from Buttogno . In the rosary chapel there is a wooden statue of the Madonna and Child (1523), in the second chapel from the left there is a wooden tabernacle from the 17th century.
  • Former spa hotel Terme with thermal baths, built in 1887 by Giuseppe Martinoli.
  • Shell stone on Monte Foppa (1562 m above sea level)

Events

  • La milizia storica napoleonica (appearance of "historical militias")

Sports

  • Below the Pizzo Molare is the Piandios hut , where mountain hikers can spend the night.
  • The Leontica-Nara ski area, which can be reached by chairlift, has 30 kilometers of slopes and also offers a toboggan run.

Personalities

  • Giacomo Genora (1656–1731), clergyman in Osco and Pollegio and local writer
  • Antonio Arcioni (1811-1859), Swiss officer and republican general in the first Italian war of independence
  • Domenico Visani (born September 23, 1894 in Palazzuolo di Romagna, today Palazzuolo sul Senio , † May 13, 1969 in Leontica), trade unionist and politician, president of the construction and wood union in Lugano , Ticino Grand Council
  • Aurelio Gianora (born September 6, 1909 in Leontica, † December 31, 1995 in Saint-Maurice ) missionary in Sikkim in India, titular abbot of Sixt (Haute-Savoie)
  • Remo Beretta (born February 20, 1922 in Leontica, † July 25, 2009 in Lugano ), writer
  • Sandro Beretta (1926–1960), journalist, writer

literature

population

Population development
year 1349 1567 1602 1808 1850 1870 1880 1900 1920 1941 1960 1980 2000
Residents 60 households (with Comprovasco) 63 house 315 441 473 392 415 395 398 438 383 298 267

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 524.
  2. ↑ Lorenzo Peretti (Italian) on icandreatestore.it/webspace/risorseterritoriali
  3. ↑ Galetti's high altar (photo)
  4. ^ Simona Martinoli et al. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 100.
  5. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 35.
  6. ↑ The historical militias in the Blenio valley at http://www.lebendigetradUNGEN.ch/tradUNGEN/00090/
  7. ↑ Piandios Hut on capanneti.ch/
  8. ↑ Leontica-Nara ski area on bergfex.ch
  9. ^ Urban Fink: Carlo Francesco Gianella. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2006 , accessed May 4, 2020 .
  10. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 20.
  11. ↑ Pasquale Genasci: Domenico Visani. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 30, 2013 , accessed May 12, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Walter Home: Aurelio Gianora. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2006 , accessed on 2020-05-02 .
  13. ^ Giovanni Orelli: Remo Beretta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 18, 2013 , accessed May 1, 2020. }
  14. ↑ Remo Beretta (Italian) on bibliomedia.ch/de/fuer-alle/schweizer-autoren-und-autorinnen/
  15. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Leontica. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 .