Personico

Personico

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Leventina districtw
Circle :	Giornico district
BFS no. :	5076i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6744
Coordinates :	713 863 / 136 579 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '15 " N , 8 ° 55' 6" O ; CH1903: seven hundred thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-three / one hundred thirty-six thousand five hundred seventy-nine46.3709314 8.9184636 325
Height :	325 m above sea level M.
Height range :	286–2717 m above sea level M.
Area :	38.87 km²
Residents:	335 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	9 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.personico.ch
Location of the municipality
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Val Nadro, quartz quarry and hut (1916)

Personico quarry near the Tessin Bridge (1936)

Nuova Biaschina power station

Personico is a municipality in the Giornico district , in the Leventina district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

The village of Personico is located on the valley floor on the shady side of the Leventina . The side valleys Val d'Ambra, Val Marcri and Val Nèdro also belong to the municipality.

The municipality borders Bodio to the north, Pollegio to the northeast, Biasca to the east, Iragna to the south, Lavertezzo to the southwest, Frasco to the west and Giornico to the northwest .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1227 under the then name Prexonego . Personico used to belong to the vicinia di Basso (Giornico). In 1600 Personico, Bodio and Pollegio formed a vicinia, which existed as a corporation until 1803. Ecclesiastically, the village first belonged to Biasca and before 1570 became an independent parish.

population

Population development
year	1745	1850	1900	1950	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010	2012	2017
Residents	269	306	288	270	401	384	379	353	345	350	344

Attractions

Sacred buildings

Parish church of Santi Nazario e Celso, mentioned in 1256.
Oratory of San Rocco, in the Faidàl district , built at the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century

Civil buildings

Nuova Biaschina power station built in 1962 by engineer Giovanni Lombardi and architect Augusto Jäggli
Old glass factory built in 1736 (painter Giuseppe Maria Busca)
Old Keltnerhaus
Old Bridge da Picol
Old Bridge del Cassinone
Val d'Ambra dam.

Sports

Unione Sportiva Personico

Personalities

Emilio Bontà (1882–1953), teacher and local history researcher

literature

Flavio Bernardi, Giulio Foletti: Le vetrerie di Personico e di Lodrino. Manifatture in una vallata alpina tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo. Editore Jam, 2005.
Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Personico. In: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, p. 241.
Valeria Farinati: Personico. In: Centrali idroelettriche d'autore. In: Arte & Storia. , Il Ticino dell'acqua. Dalla formazione geologica del Cantone alle attività economiche , Edizioni Ticino Management, 12th year, number 54, April – July 2012, Lugano 2012.
Mario Fransioli: Personico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 24, 2011 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Personico. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 232, 476.
Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Personico. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 283-298.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Personico. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 116, 117.
Celestino Trezzini : Personico. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Neuenschwander - Picot. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 443 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Personico on the ETHorama platform
Website of the municipality of Personico
Data from the municipality of Personico
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Personico (Italian)
Personico: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Official website of Gazzose Ticinesi SA
Personico 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 .

↑ Mario Fransioli: Personico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 31, 2009 .

^ Gilardoni, 1967, 476.

^ Bernasconi Reusser, 2010, 241.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 116–117.

↑ Unione Sportiva Personico ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[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] Mario Fransioli: Personico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 31, 2009 .

[3] Gilardoni, 1967, 476.

[4] Bernasconi Reusser, 2010, 241.

[Martinoli-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 116–117.