Maroggia

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Maroggia
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Lugano district
Circle :	Ceresio district
BFS no. :	5195
Postal code :	6817
UN / LOCODE :	CH MRO
Coordinates :	718 819  /  88295 coordinates: 45 ° 56 '9 "  N , 8 ° 58' 14"  O ; CH1903:  718,819  /  88295
Height :	277  m above sea level M.
Height range :	270–602 m above sea level M.
Area :	0.99  km²
Residents:	686 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	693 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.maroggia.ch
Maroggia
Location of the municipality

Maroggia is a municipality in the Ceresio district in the Lugano district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The village is located on the east bank of Lake Lugano at the foot of Monte Generoso and 2 km north of the Melano station on the Bellinzona-Chiasso line of the Swiss Federal Railways .

history

The village has been inhabited since the Iron Age; In 1906 a northern Truscan inscription and in 1926 a Roman stele were discovered. The Lombard king Liutprand donated the village to the church of San Carpoforo in Como around 724 , later it was transferred to the Benedictine abbey of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan . In 1798, Maroggia joined the short-lived Republic of Riva San Vitale .

population

Population development
year	1636	1791	1850	1900	1950	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2010	2012	2014	2017
Residents	114	151	211	414	577	689	554	575	571	586	557	575	597	683

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Maroggia

• The parish church of San Pietro was first mentioned in 1579, renovated in 1640 and consecrated in 1643
• Ossuary
• Oratorio Madonna della Cintura (1731–1766) and restored by the architect Tita Carloni (1975–1976)
• Ex Don Bosco College with frescoes
• three holiday homes built by the architect Rino Tami (1953, 1954, 1963)
• Maroggia Mill (1897)

Sports

• Associazione Sportiva Maroggia

camping

In Maroggia there is a small TCS campsite called Paradiso .

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities from Maroggia

literature

• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 362–363.
• Giuseppe Negro: Maroggia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 2, 2010 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
• Cesare Santi, Il collegio Don Bosco di Maroggia. In Almanacco di vita chiassese e del Mendrisiotto , Chiasso 2003, pp. 27-33.
• Celestino Trezzini : Maroggia. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 30 ( digitized version ).

photos

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  On the bank by the parish church of San Pietro

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  Maroggia railway station

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  Confluence of the Giessbach Mara

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  San Nicolao tunnel (architect Rino Tami)

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  Modern holiday homes (2017)

Web links

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

• Maroggia on the ETHorama platform
• Data from the municipality of Maroggia
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Maroggia (Italian)
• Maroggia on www.artistiticinesi-ineuropa.ch
• Maroggia: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Maroggia on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ^ Giuseppe Negro: Maroggia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2009 .
3. ^ Giuseppe Negro: Maroggia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2009 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Simona Martinoli and others: 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. 362–363.
5. ^ Associazione Sportiva Maroggia