Ligornetto
Ligornetto | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Mendrisio district |
Circle : | Stabio district |
Municipality : | Mendrisio |
Postal code : | 6853 |
former BFS no. : | 5253 |
Coordinates : | 717 483 / 80155 |
Height : | 362 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 2.0 km² |
Residents: | 1726 (December 31, 2012) |
Population density : | 863 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | mendrisio.ch/quartieri/ligornetto/ |
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Until April 13, 2013, Ligornetto was a municipality in the Stabio district , in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
geography
The village is 362 m above sea level. M. and is ten kilometers from Chiasso and is on the Italian border. It has a beautiful scenic location at the foot of the heights of Besazio and Saltrio , with vines and chestnut groves, where various marble quarries are quarried.
history
The village was first mentioned in 789 under the then name Logurno . The village was already inhabited before the beginning of the Roman era, on July 18, 1946, various Roman graves were found there.
Community merger
Since April 14, 2013 Ligornetto has belonged to the municipality and county of Mendrisio .
population
Population development | |||||||||
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year | 1591 | 1643 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2012 | 2018 |
Residents | 230 | 320 | 543 | 795 | 770 | 855 | 1408 | 1726 | 1810 |
Ventures
- Aleph Film produioni
photos
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 San Lorenzo (1736/1741), architect: Giuseppe Caresana with decorative paintings (1777) by the painter Cipriano Pelli and three wall paintings of the life of Saint Lawrence. Episodes: alms , martyr's death , farewell to Pope Sixtus II by the painter Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo
- Oratory of San Giuseppe (16th century)
- Vincenzo Vela Museum (1962/1965), architect: Cipriano Ajmetti
- Vincenzo Vela house with plaque
- Weighing area with a statue of justice by the sculptor Vincenzo Vela
- Single-family house (1975/1976), architect: Mario Botta
- In the cemetery: Vincenzo Vela's tomb (1893), in the ossuary the statue L'Addolorata by the sculptor Vincenzo Vela
- Pessina house with the studio of the sculptor Apollonio Pessina
Sports
- Football Club Ligornetto
Personalities
literature
- Stefania Bianchi: Ligornetto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- Giuseppe Martinola : Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 209-220.
- Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 433–435.
- Celestino Trezzini : Ligornetto. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, Liebegg - Milan. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1927, p. 686 ( digitized version ).
- Marc-Joachim Wasmer: Museo Vela in Ligornetto. Swiss Art Guide GSK, Volume 741/742: Bern 2003, ISBN 3-85782-741-6 .
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Mendrisio
- Data from the municipality of Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio
- Quartier Ligornetto on the website of the Municipality of Mendrisio (Italian)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Ligornetto (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- Ligornetto: inventory of cultural assets in the Canton of Ticino
- Ligornetto on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Aldo Crivelli: Tombe preromane a Ligornetto. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese , Anno 9, N. 1-6, Gennaio-Dicembre 1946, Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1946, pp. 1221-1222.
- ↑ Stefania Bianchi: Ligornetto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 18th January 2017 .
- ^ Population of Ligornetto at the end of 2018
- ↑ Aleph Film Producers
- ↑ 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 Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 433, 434, 435.
- ↑ Parish Church of San Lorenzo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 6, 2016.)
- ^ Marc-Joachim Wasmer: Museo Vela in Ligornetto. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 741/742, Series 74). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-85782-741-9 .
- ↑ Vincenzo Vela house
- ↑ Casa Pessina (museum)
- ↑ Football Club Ligornetto at football.ch/ftc/Club-FTC.aspx