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Mugena
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Lugano district
Circle :	Breno County
Municipality :	Alto Malcantone
Postal code :	6939
former BFS no. :	5145
Coordinates :	712 329  /  100739 coordinates: 46 ° 2 '56 "  N , 8 ° 53' 24"  O ; CH1903:  712,329  /  100739
Height :	810  m above sea level M.
Area :	3.7  km²
Residents:	141 (December 31, 2002)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.altomalcantone.ch
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Parish before the merger on March 13, 2005

Church of Sant'Agata

Mugena is part of the Ticino Alto Malcantone municipality in the Breno district, in the Lugano district in upper Malcantone .

geography

The village is 818 m above sea level. M. in the upper Val Magliasina and six kilometers southwest of the Taverne station on the Bellinzona - Lugano - Chiasso line of the Swiss Federal Railways .

Community merger

Mugena merged on March 13, 2005 with the former municipalities of Breno , Fescoggia , Arosio and Vezio to form the new municipality of Alto Malcantone.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1214 under the then name Megiadina . The Roman road from Ponte Tresa to Monte Ceneri through the municipality has been handed down.

population

Population development
year	1599	1801	1850	1900	1950	2000	2002
Residents	180	108	175	157	150	141	141

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Alto Malcantone

• Parish Church of Sant'Agata
• House with paintings by Giovanni Pellegrinelli

education

• Fondazione Portugalli

Personalities

• Pietro Rizzolo (* around 1530 in Mugena; † after 1572 there?), Son of Giovanni, master builder
• Giovan Martino Portogalli (* around 1650 in Mugena; † after 1721 in Florence  ?), Plasterer
• Bartolomeo Rizzoli (* around 1700 in Mugena, † after 1738 in Viterbo  ?), Master builder
• Giacomo Albertolli (* 1761 in Mugena; † January 8, 1805 in Milan ), from Bedano , architect

• Mèrcoli family of artists
  • Bernardino Mèrcoli (* 1682 in Mugena; † 1746 there), painter
  • Giacomo Mèrcoli (il Vecchio) (* around 1715 in Mugena; † 1785 ibid), plasterer, engraver (Jacobo Mercurus)
  • Giacomo Mèrcoli (il Giovane) (* 1745 in Mugena; † October 18, 1825 ibid), sculptor, etcher
  • Michelangelo Mèrcoli (* 1773 in Mugena, † 1802 in Milan) etcher

• Insermini family of artists
  • Gian Domenico Insermini (* around 1725 in Mugena; † after 1775 there), altar sculptor active in the Church of San Giorgio in Origlio
  • Anselmo Insermini (* around 1805 in Mugena, † 1868 in Turin ), building contractor in Piedmont
  • Luigi Insermini (* around 1820 in Mugena; † 1876 there), engineer, road builder in Liguria
• Candido De Giorgi (* 1846 in Mugena, † 1906 in La Spezia ), engineer

literature

• Virgilio Chiesa : Mugena. In: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Tipografia Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1961.
• Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Mugena. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
• Laura Facchin: I Portugalli di Mugena a Livorno. In: Arte & Storia. Edizioni Ticino Management, Volume 14, Number 62, Lugano August 2014, pp. 302–315.
• Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 386.
• Giovanni Maria Staffieri : Mugena. In: Malcantone. Testimonianze culturali nei comuni malcantonesi. Lugano-Agno 1985, pp. 73, 74-75.
• Celestino Trezzini : Mugena. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Monopole - Neuenkirch. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 205 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Alto Malcantone
• Data from the municipality of Alto Malcantone
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Alto Malcantone (Italian)
• Mugena: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Mugena on elexikon.ch
• Parish Church of Sant'Agata on www.flickr.com
• November 26, 1214 sale, Carta vendicionis in Lugano (Italian) at ti.ch/archivio-pergamene (accessed on January 22, 2017)
• February 12, 1331 Sale, Carta vendicionis (Italian) at ti.ch/archivio-pergamene (accessed on January 26, 2018).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Mugena. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 15th December 2016 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 386.
3. ↑ Fondazione Portugalli on easymonitoring.ch (accessed on: June 22, 2016.)
4. ↑ Pietro Rizzolo. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini-Bizzozero, Curio 2002, p. 203.
5. ↑ Bartolomeo Rizzoli. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... 2002, p. 203.
6. ^ Albertolli, Giacomo . 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. 221 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
7. ↑ Bernardino Mercoli. In: Sikart , accessed January 21, 2016.
8. ↑ Giacomo Mercoli (il Vecchio). In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
9. ↑ Giacomo Mercoli (il Giovane). In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
10. ↑ Michelangelo Mercoli. In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
11. ↑ Domenico Insermini. In: Sikart , (accessed on: February 3, 2016).
12. ↑ Anselmo Insermini. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. 2002, p. 203.
13. ↑ Luigi Insermini. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... 2002, p. 203.
14. ↑ Candido De Giorgi at http://biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 1, 2017).