Lopagno

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Lugano district

Circle :

Capriasca district

Municipality :

Capriasca

Postal code :

6950

Coordinates :

719 023 / 103078 coordinates: 46 ° 4 '7 " N , 8 ° 58' 37" O ; CH1903: 719,023 / 103078

Height :

595 m above sea level M.

Area :

5.31 km²

Residents:

496 (December 31, 2000)

Population density :

93 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.capriasca.ch

map

Parish before the merger on October 15, 2001

Lopagno is a former municipality in the county Capriasca , district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

The village is 595 m above sea level. M. in Val Capriasca and at the entrance to Val Colla (valley) , nine kilometers north of the Lugano train station . The municipality contains the fractions Somazzo , Treggia and Scampo .

history

The village is first mentioned in 1335 under the then name Lopagnio . Together with Cagiallo and Campestro, it has formed a vicinia since 1348, with a community of property dating back to the Middle Ages.

Community merger

On October 15, 2001, it was merged with Tesserete , Campestro and the Odogno, Cagiallo , Roveredo Capriasca , Sala Capriasca and Vaglio fraction to form the new municipality of Capriasca.

population

Population development
year	1574	1602	1638	1779	1850	1900	1920	1950	1980	2000
Residents	117	114	93	211	410	397	365	359	344	496

Attractions

Sacred buildings

Oratory Sant'Apollonia, built in 1735, with painting by Sant'Apollonia (around 1600) and oil painting of the Annunciation (mid-17th century)
Oratory Madonna della Neve in the hamlet of Scampo
Oratory of Sant'Agata in the fraction of Oggio , (1757); Oil painting with San Paolo di Tarso, Sant'Agata and Immacolata Concezione
Oratory of Sant'Antonio of Padua, in the district of Treggia , (1752–1753), with fresco Sacra Famiglia e Santi Antonio da Padova and Carlo Borromeo by the painter Giovanni Battista Sertorio
Oratory of San Giovanni Bosco in the Somazzo district , built in 1935

Civil buildings

Villa Janua (Istituto Don Luigi Orione ) (1912), architect: Ernesto Quadri for the shipowner Gian Carlo Ageno from Genoa , seat of the Fondazione San Gottardo

Personalities

Giuseppe Lepori (born June 2, 1902 in Massagno , † September 6, 1968 in Seravezza , from Oggio (Lopagno), today the municipality of Capriasca ), son of Giovanni, Swiss politician (CVP), journalist, lawyer, he was from Ticino from 1927–1940 Grand Councilor and 1928–1929 municipal council in Massagno, Ticino State Council since 1940 (President 1941, 1946, 1951), Federal Councilor 1954–1959

literature

Franco Binda: Lopagno. In: Archeologia rupestre nella Svizzera Italiana. Locarno, Dadò, 1996, page 111.
Emilio Foletti: I Lepori di Oggio a Massagno. In: Risveglio. Numbers 7/8, 1986, pp. 229-232.
Alberto Lepori (Ed.): Giuseppe Lepori (1902-1968). Scritti e discorsi. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1988; Idem: Giuseppe Lepori in Consiglio Federale. In: Rivista di Lugano. November 12, 1999, pp. 10-11.
Raimondo Locatelli: Le cinque frazioni di Lopagno nei quadri di Rini Widmer. In: Rivista di Lugano. November 12, 1999, pp. 22-23; the same: L'Istituto don Orione e gli handicappati. Ibidem, pp. 12-13; the same: L'Istituto San Nicolao a Treggia. Ibidem, p. 15.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 371, 380, 381.
Giuseppe Negro: Lopagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 17, 2006 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Celestino Trezzini : Lopagno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, Liebegg - Milan , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1927, page 712 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Website of the municipality of Capriasca
Data from the municipality of Capriasca
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Capriasca (Italian)
Lopagno: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Lopagno on elexikon.ch
Somazzo on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Somazzo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 28, 2016.)
^ Walter Lips: Val Colla, Somazzo, Alta Capriasca , "Roda Rota", Somazzo 1998.
^ Giuseppe Negro: Lopagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 17, 2006 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 371, 380, 381.
↑ Fondazione San Gottardo (Italian) on fsangottardo.ch/
↑ Giuseppe Lepori on parlament.ch (accessed on November 23, 2016).
^ Fabrizio Panzera: Giuseppe Lepori. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 22, 2006 .

[1] Somazzo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 28, 2016.)

[2] Walter Lips: Val Colla, Somazzo, Alta Capriasca , "Roda Rota", Somazzo 1998.

[3] Giuseppe Negro: Lopagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 17, 2006 .

[Martinoli-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 371, 380, 381.

[5] Fondazione San Gottardo (Italian) on fsangottardo.ch/

[6] Giuseppe Lepori on parlament.ch (accessed on November 23, 2016).

[7] Fabrizio Panzera: Giuseppe Lepori. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 22, 2006 .