Sant'Antonino TI
| TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Sant'Antonino . |
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Ticino (TI)
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| District : | Bellinzona district |
| Circle : | Sant'Antonino district |
| BFS no. : | 5017 |
| Postal code : | 6592 |
| Coordinates : | 719 008 / 112485 |
| Height : | 226 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 201–1105 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 6.55 km² |
| Residents: | 2525 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 385 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.santonino.ch |
 View over S.Antonino |
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Sant'Antonino , in Lombard local dialect Sant'Antunin [ˌsantantuniŋ] , is a municipality in the district of Sant'Antonino , district of Bellinzona , in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
geography
The municipality is located on the southern edge of the Magadino plain , but is not touched by the Ticino river . In the south of the municipality the Cenerimassiv rises with the Matro ( 1201 m above sea level ) as the highest point, in the immediate vicinity of which the municipality border of Sant'Antonino runs.
The old village center ( 226 m above sea level ) lies at the foot of the Ceneri. Today, the north ramps of the A2 and the Bellinzona – Lugano section of the Gotthard Railway , which have to overcome Monte Ceneri to the south, run directly south above the village .
North below the village spreads to about 210 m above sea level. M. the Magadino plain. The Gotthardbahn branch line Bellinzona – Locarno (“Ticino Valley Railway”), which branches in Cadenazzo to Luino , and main road 2 run through the municipality . The latter is the most important road connection in the Magadino plain and is heavily burdened by transit traffic - from the Camorino (Bellinzona Sud) motorway junction on the A2 to Locarno and Italy. Due to its logistical location, Sant'Antonino is the headquarters of Migros Ticino .
Neighboring municipalities are Bellinzona , Isone and Cadenazzo, clockwise from the northwest .
history
The village was first mentioned in 1219 as Sancto Antorino . It was part of a church in Bellinzona until 1442, then in Cadenazzo until 1830.
Formerly a farming village, it has been developing into a suburb of Bellinzona since the 1960s and, thanks to its favorable geographical and transport-related location, has been increasingly a commercial and industrial location since 2000.
population
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| year | 1591 | 1696 | 1795 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017 | ||
| Residents | 400 | 453 | 373 | 329 | 380 | 440 | 711 | 1130 | 1711 | 2066 | 2274 | 2513 | ||
Industry
- Interroll Holding (Switzerland) AG
Sports
- Unione Sportiva Sant'Antonino
Attractions
- Parish church of Sant'Antonino: Romanesque bell tower from the 12th century and single-nave Baroque church from the 16th / 17th century. Century. The former ossuary is now a Lourdes grotto .
- Casa Grino: Single-family house near the train station in the form of a district, built 1984–1985 according to plans by Franco and Paolo Moro.
- Spirale verde: In the industrial zone by landscape architect Paolo L. Bürgi for Knoll-Bio Research, a spiral garden consisting of a hundred poplars.
Personalities
- Christian Vitta (born December 25, 1972 in Locarno ), former mayor of the municipality of Sant'Antonino, State Councilor of the Canton of Ticino.
literature
- Virgilio Gilardoni : Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Edizioni dello Stato. Bellinzona 1955, pp. 271-274. Ders .: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 324, 375, 545-546.
- Art guide through Switzerland. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Volume 2. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2005, p. 489 f.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Graziano Tarilli: Sant'Antonino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 12, 2009 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
- Celestino Trezzini : Sant'Antonino. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 6: Saint Gelin - Schaffer. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 80 ( digitized version ).
photos
Sant'Antonino
Sant'Antonino train station
Parish Church of Sant'Antonino (2018)
Sant'Antonino Martyr of Apamea
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Sant'Antonino
- Data from the municipality of Sant'Antonino
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Sant'Antonino
- Sant'Antonino: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
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 .
- ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 795.
- ^ Graziano Tarilli: Sant'Antonino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Interroll (Schweiz) AG on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 9, 2016.)
- ↑ Unione Sportiva Sant'Antonino in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 9, 2016.)
- ↑ a b c Art guide through Switzerland. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Volume 2. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2005, p. 489 f.
- ↑ Christian Vitta in ti.ch/dfe/ (accessed on: May 9, 2016.)