Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca

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Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca
coat of arms
Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca (Italy)
Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Coordinates 46 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 2 '40 "  N , 8 ° 44' 19"  E
height 210  m slm
surface 41.96 km²
Residents 2,580 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 61 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 21061
prefix 0332
ISTAT number 012142
Popular name maccagnesi
Patron saint Materno and Stefano ( July 18 ) ( December 26 )
Website Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca
Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca municipality in the province of Varese

Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca is a municipality in the Italian province of Varese , Lombardy region , which was newly formed in 2014. It has 2580 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

The community is located on the east bank of the Langensee and covers an area of ​​41.96 km². It surrounds the independent municipality of Tronzano Lago Maggiore and borders in the north on the Swiss canton of Ticino . The neighboring communities are Brissago (CH-TI), Cannobio (IT-VB), Dumenza (IT-VB), Gambarogno (CH-TI), Luino (IT-VB), Ronco sopra Ascona (CH-TI) and Tronzano Lago Maggiore (IT-VB).

Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca includes the fractions Armio, Biegno, Cadero, Campagnano, Caviggia, Entiglio, Garabiolo, Graglio, Lozzo, Maccagno (main town), Monte Venere, Musignano, Monti di Pino, Orascio, Pianca, Piantonazzo, Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore , Ronchi, Sarangio, Veddo and Zenna.

The administrative seat is in the district of Maccagno . Branches that are open on individual days of the week exist in the districts of Pino and Armio.

history

The municipality was created on February 4, 2014 after a consultative vote on December 1, 2013 with Regional Law No. 8 of January 30, 2014. It emerged from the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Maccagno, Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore and Veddasca .

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1936 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 3745 3906 3778 3825 3710 3348 3257 3323 3323 3289 3037 2975 2597 2444 2615

Transport and economy

The municipality is on the Bellinzona - Giubiasco - Luino railway line , whose trains operated by TILO SA go to Milan-Malpensa airport .

One of the main industries today is tourism . Maccagno has a very popular beach. The climbing wall il Cinzanino is managed by the Luino section of the Italian Alpine Club.

Attractions

  • Sanctuary of Madonnina della punta in the district of Maccagno Inferiore
  • medieval tower, called Torre imperiale, above the village
  • Palazzo della Zecca, built in 1622
  • Casa forte Della Bella
  • Civico Museo Parisi - Valle, designed by the architect Maurizio Sacripanti; shows contemporary art in changing exhibitions
  • Church of Sant'Antonio abate in the district of Maccagno Superiore, with frescoes by the painter Antonio da Tradate (15th century)
  • medieval tower of Pino

Personalities

  • Antonio da Musignano called Lombardo (* around 1445 in Musignano, fraction of Maccagno; † after 1510 in Urbino ), son of Giacomo, sculptor in Perugia
  • Domenico della Bella called Macaneo (* 1466 in Maccagno; † 1530 ibid), local historian, author of the "Chorographia Verbani laci" and the "Epitomae historicae novem ducum Sabaudorum"
  • Ferdinando Caronesi (born October 11, 1794 in Maccagno Superiore, † October 24, 1842 in Turin ), architect of neoclassicism
  • Angelo Pedroni (1914–1992), Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See

gallery

  • Parisi-Valle Art Museum

  • Maccagno beach

  • Train composition of the TILO

  • Pino faction

  • Pino, in the background Ronco sopra Ascona

  • Fraction Pino with railway line

  • Medieval tower of Pino

  • Val Veddasca with Lake Maggiore in the background

  • Alp Forcora

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, pp. 218-222.
  • Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 (Italian); books.google.ch
  • Luca Gianazza: La Zecca di Maccagno inferiore e le sue monete. Alberti editore, Intra 2003.

Web links

Commons : Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ Antonio da Musignano . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 592 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Domenico Macaneo (Italian) on ilritornodeiclassici.it; accessed on December 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Macaneo. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 4: Liebegg - Milan. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 783; unibe.ch (PDF).