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Melano
Melano coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Lugano districtw
Circle : Ceresio district
BFS no. : 5197i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6818
Coordinates : 719 881  /  87114 coordinates: 45 ° 55 '30 "  N , 8 ° 59' 2"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-one  /  87114
Height : 294  m above sea level M.
Height range : 270–1606 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.56  km²
Residents: 1439 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 316 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.melano.ch
Melano

Melano
Location of the municipality
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Parish Church of Sant'Andrea
Giuseppe Motta square
Camping Paradiso
Maroggia Melano train station

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

geography

Aerial photo (1946)

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

history

The place is first mentioned in 799 as Mellani and was an important port on the lake in the Middle Ages. The village church of Sant'Andrea was built in 1850 by the architect Luigi Fontana .

population

Population development
year 1591 1702 1769 1801 1850 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000 2010 2012 2014 2017
Residents 100 193 205 351 368 584 529 841 894 1070 1306 1359 1435 1445

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 Sant'Andrea
  • Madonna del Castelletto Church
  • Polatta old house; Arched entrance with stucco work
  • Villa Seminario in the Pedemonte district
  • Castellaccio castle ruins .

education

  • Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino, in Villa Maderni.
  • Artrust SA The swiss bank of fine art and antiques

Sports

  • Football Club Melano

Personalities

  • Artist family Stella
    • Paolo della Stella (1500–1552), sculptor and architect
    • Giovanni Maria Stella (* around 1505 in Melano † after 1538 in the Czech Republic  ?), Sculptor. Brother of Paolo. Works with his brother in ( Moritzburg Castle (Saxony) in Saxony , Dresden Castle ) and in the Czech Republic.
    • Cristoforo Stella (* around 1550 in Melano; † 1596 in Eger (Hungary) ), military engineer in Hungary, where he built fortifications to protect against the Turkish invasions.
    • Giovanni Stella (* around 1620 in Melano; † after 1665 in Warsaw  ?), Architect. In a document from King John II Casimir from March 7, 1665, he is described as a good architect and receives privileges throughout the empire. He is mentioned during the construction of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw.
  • Canavesi family of artists
    • Girolamo Canavesi (* around 1525–1582), sculptor
    • Carlo Canavesi called lo Spadino (* around 1620 in Melano; † after 1650 in Milan  ?), Wood sculptor.
  • Fogliardi family
    • Giovanni Battista Fogliardi (born July 24, 1791 in Melano; † January 5, 1861 there), lawyer, Ticino Grand Councilor and Ticino State Council
    • Augusto Fogliardi (1818–1890), Swiss politician, colonel in the Swiss Army
  • Giuseppe Cantone (* around 1665 in Melano; † 1718 in Brescia  ?), Sculptor, architect
  • Carlo Vincenzo Giuseppe Borsa (born June 5, 1796 in Capolago ; † September 28, 1871 in Maroggia ), son of Giuseppe and Lucrezia Amadio from Pazzallo , entrepreneur, politician, Ticino councilor lived in Melano, tenant of the Kant. Customs and road charges.
  • Alessandro Repetti (born November 13, 1822 in Genoa ; † June 18, 1890 in Rome ), from 1849 from Melano, employee and owner of Tipografia elvetica in Capolago , major
  • Mario Ribola (born April 7, 1908 in Lugano ; † May 8, 1948 ibid) (town Melano), painter
  • Eliane Gervasoni (born November 11, 1958 in Basel ) (town Melano), video artist, draftsman, photographer, engraver

literature

  • Mark Bertogliati (Ed.): Melano: segni, itinerari, destini. Edizioni del Comune di Melano, 2017.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Melano . In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 368-370.
  • Giuseppe Negro: Melano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 13, 2008 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
  • Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Melano. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 253-268.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 203.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Melano. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, pp. 71, 72 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Melano  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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: Melano. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 13, 2008 .
  3. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 368–370.
  5. ^ Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino
  6. ↑ Artrust SA The swiss bank of fine Art and Antiques
  7. ↑ Football Club Melano on football.ch/ftc/Club-FTC.aspx/v-592/
  8. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Maria Stella. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2017, Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Cristoforo Stella. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2017, Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Stella. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2017, Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  11. ^ Mariusz Karpowicz: Gerolamo Canavesi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 23, 2003 .
  12. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Carlo Canavesi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved March 11, 2016 (2012/2016).
  13. ^ Corrado Biasca: Giovanni Battista Fogliardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 23, 2004 , accessed December 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Giuseppe Cantone. In: Sikart
  15. ^ Massimiliano Ferri: I Borsa da Sacconago a Melano. Fortune effimere di una famiglia lombarda sulle rive del Ceresio. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese , No. 165, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona luglio 2019, pp. 38–56.
  16. ^ Mark Bertogliati (eds.): Vincenzo Borsa e Giovanni Battista Fogliardi. Fortuna, opere e vicissitudini. In: Melano. Segni Itinerari Destini. Melano 2017, pp. 177-189.
  17. ^ Carlo Agliati: Vincenzo Borsa. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 4, 2003 , accessed December 20, 2019 .
  18. ^ Annamaria Valenti: Alessandro Repetti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2012 , accessed May 14, 2020 .
  19. ^ Marcella Snider Salazar: Mario Ribola. In: Sikart
  20. ↑ Eliane Gervasoni. In: Sikart , accessed February 6, 2016.