Prato-Sornico
Prato-Sornico | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Vallemaggia district | |
Circle : | Lavizzara district | |
Municipality : | Lavizzara | |
Postal code : | 6694 | |
Coordinates : | 693 492 / 139 089 | |
Height : | 750 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 38.34 km² | |
Residents: | 112 (2003) | |
Population density : | 3 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.lavizzara.ch | |
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From 1864 to 2004, Prato-Sornico was a municipality in the Lavizzara district, in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .
geography
The village lies at an altitude between 742 and 754 m above sea level. M. on the left bank of the Lavizzara (river) and at the entrance to Val Prato, 37 kilometers northwest of Locarno . An abundant mineral spring gushes on one of the alpine pastures belonging to the village. The 3,071 m above sea level rises above the village. M. Pizzo Campo Tencia .
history
The village is first mentioned in 1374 under the then name Prato , 1374 Sornico . The place used to belong to the vicinìa Lavizzara and enjoyed a certain independence. In 1374, the villages of Prato, Sornico, Broglio TI , Peccia and Fusio divided the common area. From 1803 on, Prato formed a political municipality, from 1864 it was united with Sornico to form the municipality of Prato-Sornico.
Community merger
It emerged from the merger of Prato (Vallemaggia) and Sornico and merged in 2004 with Broglio, Brontallo , Fusio , Menzonio and Peccia in the larger municipality of Lavizzara.
Local civil parish
Local citizen families are Cavalli, Moretti, Cotti, Jelmini, Fenini, Melia, Oberti.
population
Population development | ||||||||||
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year | 1591 | 17th century | 1776 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1920 | 1950 | 2000 | 2003 |
Residents | 120 households | 800 | 335 | 225 | 161 | 124 | 114 | 104 | 104 | 112 |
Attractions
- In the district of Prato, parish church of Santi Fabiano and Sebastiano, consecrated (1487)
- In the district of Predee : Oratory San Carlo Borromeo (1618)
- In the district of Vedlà : Oratorium del Crocifisso (1758)
- In the district of Sornico : Church of San Martino, mentioned in 1372
- Community House (1500)
- Moretti house (XVII century)
- Old raised granary
- Schalenstein (character stone) on the border of the former municipality of Broglio TI (900 m above sea level)
Personalities
- Giovanni Antonio Galliardi (* 1657 in Prague Neustadt; † around 1690 in Vienna ?) (Place of origin Prato-Sornico), painter, fresco in Kremsmünster
- Gottlieb Antonio Galliardi (* 1689 in Prague ; † 1728 in Slovakia ?), Son of Giovanni Antonio, painter, fresco artist
- Giovanni Giulio Gerolamo Berna (1717–1804), clergyman and library founder
- Bernardo Pfiffer-Gagliardi (born September 19, 1810 (also Phiffer, Pfyffer or Gagliardi-Pfiffer in reverse of the double name taken over from his father) in Prato-Sornico (today the municipality of Lavizzara); February 14, 1867 ibid)
- Giacomo Pfiffer-Gagliardi (March 20, 1809 (also Phiffer, Pfyffer or Gagliardi-Pfiffer in reverse of the double name adopted from the father) in Prato-Sornico; † July 31, 1867 in Locarno )
- Martino Signorelli (born July 10, 1896 in Prato-Sornico, † November 14, 1975 in Locarno ), priest, pastor of Muzzano , Canon of Lugano , rector of the Lugano seminary, local historian
- Fede Cavalli Melià (born April 19, 1936 in Cevio , † November 19, 2011 in Prato-Sornico), painter, linoleum artist
- Flavio Cotti (* 1939), lawyer, politician, Federal Councilor
literature
- Giovanni Bianconi : Prato-Sornico. In: Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
- Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
- Daniela Pauli Falconi: Prato-Sornico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
- Martino Signorelli: Prato-Sornico. In: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 8, 10, 112, 131, 136, 150, 152, 172-173, 192, 196, 221, 228, 236-237, 252-253, 283-285, 288-289, 292 -293, 318-319, 353, 374-377, 398-400, 403-404, 425, 431.
- Celestino Trezzini : Prato. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 5, Pictet - Resti. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 483; Idem: Sornico. ( Digitized version ) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Volume 6, Sisikon - Steg. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 452.
- Art history
- Virgilio Gilardoni : Prato-Sornico. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 287, 562.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Prato-Sornico. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 262.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Lavizzara
- Data from the Lavizzara municipality
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Lavizzara (Italian)
- Prato-Sornico: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Federal inventory ISOS: Prato (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Sornico (PDF; 3.6 MB)
- Prato Vallemaggia on elexikon.ch
- Sornico on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 8, 73, 76, 93, 113, 115, 130, 140, 150, 165, 182, 228, 240, 255, 282, 298, 301, 338, 346, 359, 378, 408, 415, 431.
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Prato-Sornico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 264–265.
- ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 353, 401, 404, 427.
- ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 30, 282, 300, 324-325, 328, 332, 342, 375, 401, 403-404.
- ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 2013, p. 80.
- ↑ Gottlieb Antonio Galliardi in uibk.ac.at/aia (accessed on: March 21, 2016.)
- ↑ Gottlieb Antonio Galliardi in uibk.ac.at/aia (accessed on: March 21, 2016.)
- ↑ Marco Marcacci: Bernardo Pfiffer-Gagliardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 31, 2008 , accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Marco Marcacci: Giacomo Pfiffer-Gagliardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 14, 2008 , accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 27.
- ↑ Fede Cavalli Melià. In: Sikart