Signôra

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Lugano district

Circle :

Lugano north

Municipality :

Lugano

Postal code :

6959

Coordinates :

724 348 / 105806 coordinates: 46 ° 5 '32 " N , 9 ° 2' 47" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred forty-eight / 105806

Height :

994 m above sea level M.

Website:

www.lugano.ch

Signôra village

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Parish before the 1956 merger

Signôra was a municipality in the district of Lugano , Canton Ticino , in Switzerland.

geography

Signôra lies at 994 m above sea level. M. in the upper Val Colla , at the southern foot of the 2116 m above sea level. M. high Gazzirola. The San Lucio Pass (1541 m above sea level) leads from here to the Italian municipality of Cavargna .

history

In the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the great vicinìa of Colla, probably with a certain local independence. In 1686 it is mentioned as a municipality; it bought itself out of the obligation to maintain the collegiate church of San Lorenzo in Lugano .

Community merger

In 1956 Signôra merged with the municipalities of Colla , Insone , Piandera and Scareglia to form the new municipality of Valcolla . Today it is part of the city of Lugano . It consists of the previously independent municipalities of Bogno , Certara , Cimadera and Valcolla, which were incorporated into Lugano on April 13, 2013 and are all located in the valley called Val Colla .

Attractions

Oratory San Giuseppe renovated in 1819 with wooden altar from Ortisei (1931) with paintings Madonna col Bambino, San Giuseppe, Sant'Antonio di Padova e le anime purganti
In 2015 the oratory was renovated inside by Ralf Abati. The former assistant to the Swiss artist HR Giger mixed old traditions with new art. The main attraction are the 4 faceless archangels Gabriel , Uriel , Raphael and Michael who each bear a coat of arms from Ticino , Lugano , Valcolla and Signôra. The oratorio is freely accessible every day.

Personalities

Emilio Campana (* 1874 in Signôra; † after 1920 ibid), priest and doctor of theology 1897, professor at the Minor Seminary in Pollegio ; since 1898 professor of theology at the Lugano seminar with the exception of two interruptions in 1916 and 1919–1920. First episcopal delegate, then promoter Fiscalis of the diocese until 1915. Since 1914 Canon of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Lugano. Author of Maria nel Dogma .

photos

Signôra
Oratorio di Signôra

literature

Bernhard Other: Guida d'Arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980.
Maurizio Cattaneo, Alberto Gandolla: Valcolla. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
Flavio Maggi: Patriziati e patrizi ticinesi. Pramo Edizioni, Viganello 1997.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 406.
Celestino Trezzini : Signôra. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 6, Schultheiss - Sisgau. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1931, p. 365 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Valcolla
Signôra on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Simona Martinoli et al. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, page 382.
^ Celestino Trezzini : Emilio Campana. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, page 480, (accessed on July 16, 2017).

[1] Simona Martinoli et al. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, page 382.

[2] Celestino Trezzini : Emilio Campana. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, page 480, (accessed on July 16, 2017).