Piotta

Piotta
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Leventina district
Circle :	Quinto County
Municipality :	Quinto TI
Postal code :	6776
Coordinates :	694 992  /  152 025 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '46 "  N , 8 ° 40' 35"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-two  /  152 025
Height :	1001  m above sea level M.
Website:	www.tiquinto.ch
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Piotta is a village in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . It belongs to the municipality of Quinto .

geography

Like the neighboring village of Ambrì , Piotta remains without sun for several months in winter. Together with Ambrì, Piotta is best known thanks to the HC Ambrì-Piotta ice hockey club , which plays in the National League A. The Ritom funicular (maximum gradient 87.8%) connects the valley floor with Lake Ritom in the Pioratal .

Above the village stands the former Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta , which was abandoned in 1962 . Plans to convert it into a hotel were not realized.

history

Aerial photo (1964)

The village formerly formed a neighborhood association with Quinto; today it belongs to Quinto. The Sankt Karlskirche was probably built in the 17th century. In 1817 and on August 27, 1834 there were floods.

Civil parish of Piotta Ravina

Board

• President: Livio Gobbi
• Members: Fausto Piccoli, Ivo Gobbi, Donato Gobbi, Norman Gobbi.

Personalities

• René Juri, politician, agricultural engineer
• Norman Gobbi , politician.

Sports

• Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

• San Carlo Church (1768)
• Centrale elettrica (hydroelectric power station) del Ritom (1918/1919), architect: Thedor Nager
• Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta

Others

• The June heat record in Piotta was measured on June 27, 2019 at 35.1 ° C.

literature

• Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Piotta. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 26, 27.
• Mario Fransioli: Quinto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 13, 2012 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Piotta. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed.  Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 140–141.
• Celestino Trezzini : Piotta. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 8, Macheret - Z. , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1929, p. 137 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Quinto
• Data from the municipality of Quinto
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Quinto (Italian)
• Quinto: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Federal inventory ISOS: Piotta (PDF; 2.1 MB)
• Ambrì-Piotta Airport
• Piotta on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corriere del Ticino: Un albergo all'ex Sanatorio di Piotta
2. ↑ René Juri
3. ↑ Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta
4. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
5. ^ ^{A b} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 138–142.
6. ↑ Centrale elettrica (hydroelectric power station) del Ritom (photo)
7. ↑ The downside of the heat wave - swimming accidents, high ozone levels and the risk of forest fires. In: srf.ch . June 28, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .