Morcote
Morcote | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Lugano district |
Circle : | Paradiso district |
BFS no. : | 5203 |
Postal code : | 6922 |
Coordinates : | 714 607 / 87012 |
Height : | 272 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 270–822 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 2.79 km² |
Residents: | 723 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 259 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.morcote.ch |
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Morcote is a municipality in the district of Paradiso , district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .
geography
Morcote is ten kilometers southwest of Lugano in the southern part of Lake Lugano , across from the Italian Porto Ceresio , at the foot of the 822 meter high Monte Arbostora . The formerly important from Paleari fortress towered trading center today is a beautiful position on a slope, the Parco Scherrer, his palaces , a monumental church staircase with 404 steps, the famous cemetery, the arcades along the shore road, not just a tourist destination but with the Arbostora district has been a sought-after residential area that has stretched to its natural limits for over 30 years.
history
Morcote was first mentioned in a document in 926 as "Murcau". The name means "at the end of the mountain" and comes from the Latin "Morae caput".
Until the construction of the Melide dam, better known as Ponte Diga, in 1847, Morcote was an important transshipment point and the largest port on Lake Lugano. The goods on the connecting route between the canton of Ticino and northern Italy were loaded onto ships in Morcote and brought across the lake. Morcote belonged to the sphere of influence of the Dukes of Milan in the Middle Ages . After the plague year of 1432, only seven families survived in Morcote. Seven houses sank into the lake in a landslide in 1862.
The church of Santa Maria del Sasso, presumably founded in the 13th century, was largely rebuilt in the Renaissance style from 1462 and redesigned in Baroque style in 1758.
population
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year | 1591 | 1643 | 1769 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2017 | |
Residents | 500 | 472 | 500 | 400 | 481 | 515 | 593 | 553 | 604 | 700 | 754 | 722 | 729 | 725 |
traffic
Morcote is located on a side street between the Lugano district of Barbengo and Vico Morcote , which runs along the lake shore. The next motorway connections to the A2 are Melide / Bissone and Lugano-Sud near Noranco .
The next stop of the Gotthard Railway is in Melide. The nearest airport is Lugano-Agno Airport, around 9 km northwest .
photos
View from the marina Porto Ceresio to Morcote
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 Santa Maria del Sasso
- Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova, rectory and outside staircase
- Oratory Sant'Antonio Abate Medieval foundation of the Order of Antonites with an outside staircase
- Numerous artists have found their final resting place in the terraced monumental cemetery above the lake with its memorial stones, flower beds and cypress trees: Alexander Moissi (1879–1935), best-paid stage actor of his time, Georges Baklanoff (1881–1938), Russian baritone, Georg Kaiser (1878–1945), German playwright, Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932), German composer and pianist, and Kurt Feltz (1910–1982), German songwriter and music producer. Church and cemetery is reached by a branch of the winding road that from the lake to Morcote and further Carona leads
- Parish hall
- Oratory of San Rocco
- Torre del Capitano
- Residential house Buzzi with graffiti
- Maspoli house with graffiti
- Ruggia e Isella house
- Fedele Palace
- Paleari palace
- Parco Scherrer
- Chiattone house in Arbostora , architect: Mario Chiattone
- Villa Angela in the hamlet of Soresello, architect: Paolito Somazzi .
Personalities
literature
- Massimo Bartoletti, Laura Damiani Cabrini: I Carlone di Rovio. Fidia, Lugano 1997, pp. 257-258.
- Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero: Una veduta ticinese di Genova, il pittore valsoldese Domenico Pezzi e la cultura ligure del Cinquecento. In: Bollettino Storico della Svizzera Italiana. XCVI, Bellinzona 1984.
- Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 319, 437-438, 582.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Emilio Motta : I Sanseverino. In: Periodico della Società storica comense. Volume II, Como 1882.
- Giuseppe Negro: Morcote. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 26, 2011 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Adolf K. Placzek : Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. 1982, pp. 613-614.
- Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 219-232.
- Celestino Trezzini : Morcote. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Monopole - Neuenkirch. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 159 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
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- Morcote on the ETHorama platform
- Website of the municipality of Morcote
- Data from the municipality of Morcote
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Morcote
- Morcote on tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch
- Morcote: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Federal inventory ISOS: Morcote (PDF; 6.5 MB)
- Biography of Giuseppe Sardi on tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch
- Morcote on ticinotopten.ch
- Morcote on ticinarte.ch
- Morcote on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Giuseppe Negro: Morcote. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 26, 2011 .
- ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ Parish Church of Santa Maria del Sasso (PDF; 56 kB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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. 350–355
- ↑ Oratory Sant'Antonio da Padova, rectory and outside staircase (PDF; 49 kB)
- ↑ ntonier on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 15, 2017).
- ↑ Chapel of Sant'Antonio Abate with outside staircase (PDF; 11 kB)
- ↑ Monumental Cemetery (PDF; 47 kB)
- ↑ Parco Scherrer
- ↑ Parco Scherrer (PDF; 9 kB)
- ↑ Parco Scherrer on ticino.ch