Prato (Vallemaggia)

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Prato (Vallemaggia)
Prato coat of arms (Vallemaggia)
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Vallemaggia districtw
Circle : Lavizzara district
Municipality : Lavizzarai2 w1
Postal code : 6695
Coordinates : 693579  /  138910 coordinates: 46 ° 23 '42 "  N , 8 ° 39' 19"  O ; CH1903:  693579  /  138910
Height : 742  m above sea level M.
Website: www.lavizzara.ch
Prato (Vallemaggia)

Prato (Vallemaggia)

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Prato (Vallemaggia) (Switzerland)
Prato (Vallemaggia)
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Prato-Sornico
Prato

Prato (Vallemaggia) with Sornico is a fraction of the Ticino municipality Lavizzara .

geography

The village is 750 m above sea level. M. at the foot of Pizzo Rüscada (2558 m above sea level) on the left bank of the Lavizzara and at the entrance to Val Prato, 37 km northwest of Locarno train station .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1374 as Prato . In the High Middle Ages it belonged to the Lavizzara valley. In 1374, the villages of Prato, Sornico , Broglio , Peccia and Fusio divided the common area.

On April 4, 2004, Prato-Sornico merged with the former municipalities of Broglio , Brontallo , Fusio , Menzonio to form the newly formed municipality of Lavizzara.

population

Population development
year 1591 1801 1920
Residents 90 households 78 114

Attractions

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

  • Parish Church of Santi Fabiano and Sebastiano, consecrated in 1487; inside the paintings Crucifixion with Saint Roch and Sebastianus by the painter Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis (mid 18th century) and Sacra Famiglia by the painter Jacobus Buferus (1663)

Personalities

  • Giovanni Giulio Gerolamo Berna (born April 21, 1717 in Prato Vallemaggia; † March 3, 1804 in Locarno ), Canon in Muralto , 1773–1804 archpriest, dean, protonotary and apostolic commissioner.
  • Giuseppe Belli (born August 14, 1752 in Prato Vallemaggia, † after 1802 ibid), member of the Helvetic Senate as representative of the Canton of Lugano ; 1801–1802 member of the cantonal assembly
  • Giovanni Battista Adrighetti or Ardrighetti (born June 20, 1796 in Prato Vallemaggia, † March 6, 1872 in Freiburg im Üechtland ), teacher, educator and painter
  • Martino Signorelli (born July 10, 1896 in Prato Vallemaggia, † November 14, 1975 in Locarno ), priest, music lecturer, director of the seminary of Lugano , historian

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Prato. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Simona Martinoli et al. a .: 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. 264-265.
  4. ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 353, 401, 404, 427.
  5. ↑ Domenico Trezzini: Giovanni Giulio Gerolamo Berna on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 14, 2017)
  6. ^ Raffaello Ceschi: Giovanni Giulio Gerolamo Berna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 3, 2017 , accessed February 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Domenico Trezzini: Giuseppe Belli at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on June 12, 2017).
  8. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Giuseppe Belli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed April 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Domenico Trezzini: Giovanni Battista Adrighetti or Ardrighetti at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 7, 2017).
  10. ↑ Martino Signorelli on ricercamusica.ch
  11. ↑ Martino Signorelli, un dissenziente fedele on editore.ch