Salorino
Salorino | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Mendrisio district |
Circle : | Mendrisio district |
Municipality : | Mendrisio |
Postal code : | 6872 |
Coordinates : | 720 803 / 81279 |
Height : | 473 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 4.99 km² |
Residents: | 499 (December 31, 2012) |
Population density : | 100 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | mendrisio.ch/quartieri/salorino/ |
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Salorino is a village and district in the municipality of Mendrisio in the Mendrisio district of the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 4, 2004 Salorino was a municipality.
geography
Salorino is in a panoramic position above Mendrisio on the Moree torrent on the slopes of Monte Generoso . The hamlets Somazzo and Cragno belong to the locality .
history
The village was first mentioned in 1287 under the then name Selorino . The village is attested in 1330 with Somazzo as a neighborhood and belonged to the Mendrisio region. The village after Balerna , from which it separated in 1601, was part of a church.
population
Population development | |||||||||||
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year | 1643 | 1696 | 1769 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1970 | 2000 | 2012 | 2018 |
Residents | 349 | 312 | 271 | 274 | 439 | 348 | 393 | 347 | 487 | 499 | 498 |
economy
In the past, beekeeping, agriculture and forestry dominated the economy. In addition, there was seasonal emigration, especially of construction workers. Up until the beginning of the 21st century there was a quarry and a hat factory in the community, but they closed their doors in 2000 and 2005 respectively.
Attractions
- Parish Church of San Zeno, mentioned in 1330
- Churchyard
- Old graveyard
- Oratory of San Nicolao with painting by the painter Francesco Innocenzo Torriani (1698/1700)
- Villa Landolt, architect: Americo Marazzi with decorative paintings by the painter Carlo Basilico (1925)
- Cereghetti house (1994), architect: Tita Carloni
- Pestoni house in the Somazzo district, (17th century), with stucco work by Carlo Francesco Moresco (1720/1730), chimney decoration.
Personalities
literature
- Stefania Bianchi: Salorino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- Renata Broggini: Franco Brenni (Bellinzona 1897 - Zurigo 1963) un diplomatico ticinese nelle sfide del XX secolo. Consolato generale svizzero, Milano 2010.
- Giuseppe Martinola : Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 490-501.
- Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 451-453.
- Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Salorino. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 327-344.
- Celestino Trezzini : Salorino. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 6, Saint Gelin - Schaffer. , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 21 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Mendrisio
- Data from the municipality of Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio
- Quartier Salorino on the website of the municipality of Mendrisio (Italian)
- Website of the local community of Salorino (Italian)
- Mendrisio-Salorino: inventory of cultural assets of the canton of Ticino
- Salorino on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefania Bianchi: Salorino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ^ Population of Salorino at the end of 2018
- ↑ Stefania Bianchi: Salorino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 451–453.
- ↑ Cemetery (photo)