Muralto

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Muralto
Muralto Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Locarno district
BFS no. : 5120i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6600
Coordinates : 705 285  /  114417 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '23 "  N , 8 ° 48' 7"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and five thousand two hundred and eighty-five  /  114417
Height : 207  m above sea level M.
Height range : 193-320 m above sea level M.
Area : 0.59  km²
Residents: 2682 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 4546 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.muralto.ch
Muralto

Muralto

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Muralto , in Lombard local dialect Müralt [myrɑlt] , is a municipality in the district of Locarno , district of Locarno , in the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

The community has grown together with neighboring Locarno and is located on Lake Maggiore on the eastern edge of the Maggia Delta. The neighboring communities are Locarno, Minusio and Orselina .

history

Aerial photo from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

Muralto was first mentioned in a document as de Muralto in 1235. The name goes back to the Latin mūrus "wall" and altus "high" and is possibly reminiscent of remains from Roman times.

The area was actually already inhabited in the early Roman times. Archaeologically recorded are a residential area, a commercial area, a necropolis (with 300 known graves so far) and a troop camp. The size of the vicus suggests intensive trade relations between the Alpine valleys and the Po Valley.

The predecessor of today's Collegiate Church of San Vittore, a building from 1190/1300, was an early Christian basilica from the 5th or 6th century. San Vittore was also the parish church of Locarno until 1816 . The castle, of which only ruins remain, was the ancestral seat of the von Muralt family .

In the first half of the 19th century Orselina-Muralto lost its importance as a regional center to Locarno, which built a new port in 1825/26. In 1874 Muralto was connected to the railroad. As part of the tourist boom, the Grand Hôtel Locarno was built in 1874/76 and the Hotel Reber in 1886 , both of which were closed in 2006. In 1881 the Muralto faction separated from Orselina and has since formed its own political municipality. In 1893 it was the first in the region to introduce electric lighting.

population

Population development
year 1850 (with Orselina) 1888 1900 1950 1970 2000 2010 2017
Residents 782 1019 1502 2673 3090 2676 2769 2713

economy

Service sector

Muralto is now a major tourist destination and is of regional importance with its multi-purpose congress center. In 2005, around 95% of jobs in the municipality were in the service sector .

traffic

The Locarno train station is in Muralto , where two railway lines end. It is that of the Gotthard railway opened, standard gauge SBB - distance from Bellinzona ago, which does not affect the municipal area of Locarno, and the narrow gauge Centovalli railway ( Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino / SSIF ) from Domodossola ago. Both routes end in terminal stations, the SBB route in the above-ground “Hauptbahnhof”, the FART route since 1990 in its own underground station within the SBB area north of the SBB facilities. FART reaches the underground station via its tunnel section, which begins in front of Locarno San Antonio and passes under Locarno.

Attractions

  • Collegiate Church of San Vittore, one of the most important Romanesque churches in Ticino
  • Santa Maria Annunciata Church
  • Remains of the castle
  • Villa Liverpool
  • former Grand Hotel Locarno
  • Villa Carmen, built for Lou Tseng Tsiang, architect: Eugenio Cavadini (1900/1905)
  • Villa Bellavista (1900)
  • Villa Rose Marie, built in 1916 in the local style by F. Aeschbach, architect: Ferdinando Ficher
  • Villa Moretti (1920), with Belvedere, architect: Enea Tallone
  • Villa Rovana (1911), architect: Olinto Tognola
  • Villa Farinelli (1896), architect: Paolo Zanini
  • Villa Cattori, owner Leone Cattor, built in an eclectic style by Leone Cattori, architect: Alessandro Ghezzi
  • Emilia house near Ponte Vecchio, facade with frescoes (18th century)
  • House, facade with frescoes Crocifisso with Sante Caterina and Maria Maddalena

Personalities

The later Federal Councilor Flavio Cotti comes from Muralto . Numerous well-known people settled in the community, including the artist Paul Klee and the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm .

photos

  • San Vittore Collegiate Church

  • Grand Hotel Locarno

  • Locarno train station (FFS)

  • Muralto on the border with Locarno

  • Giuseppe Cattori Monument in Muralto

literature

Art history

  • Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, volume I: Locarno e il suo circolo (Locarno, Solduno, Muralto e Orselina) (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 60). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1972, pp. 339-408.
  • Art guide through Switzerland. Completely re-edit Output. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Volume 2. GSK, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-96-3 , pp. 587-590.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History , Bellinzona 2007.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 233–243.

Web links

Commons : Muralto  - collection of images, 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. ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 631.
  3. ^ Rodolfo Huber: Muralto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 2, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Art guide through Switzerland. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Volume 2. Bern 2005, p. 587 f.
  5. ^ Rodolfo Huber: Muralto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 2, 2009 .
  6. ^ Rodolfo Huber: Muralto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 2, 2010 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Rodolfo Huber: Muralto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 2, 2010 .
  8. ^ Rodolfo Huber: Muralto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 2, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Muralto on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 170–173.
  11. ↑ Gilardoni, 1972, 345-347.
  12. ^ Grand Hotel Locarno