Mugena
Mugena | ||
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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 | |
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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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 | |||||||
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year | 1599 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2002 |
Residents | 180 | 108 | 175 | 157 | 150 | 141 | 141 |
Attractions
- 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
- ^ Bernardino Croci Maspoli: Mugena. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 15th December 2016 .
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Fondazione Portugalli on easymonitoring.ch (accessed on: June 22, 2016.)
- ↑ Pietro Rizzolo. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini-Bizzozero, Curio 2002, p. 203.
- ↑ Bartolomeo Rizzoli. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... 2002, p. 203.
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ Bernardino Mercoli. In: Sikart , accessed January 21, 2016.
- ↑ Giacomo Mercoli (il Vecchio). In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
- ↑ Giacomo Mercoli (il Giovane). In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
- ↑ Michelangelo Mercoli. In: Sikart , (accessed on: January 21, 2016).
- ↑ Domenico Insermini. In: Sikart , (accessed on: February 3, 2016).
- ↑ Anselmo Insermini. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. 2002, p. 203.
- ↑ Luigi Insermini. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... 2002, p. 203.
- ↑ Candido De Giorgi at http://biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 1, 2017).