Verdasio

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Locarno district

Municipality :

Centovalli

Postal code :

6657

Coordinates :

692 511 / 113313 coordinates: 46 ° 9 '54 " N , 8 ° 38' 11" O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred and eleven / 113313

Height :

711 m above sea level M.

Residents:

20 (2007)

Website:

www.intragna.ch

Verdasio

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Verdasio is a small mountain village in Centovalli . Since October 1st, 2009 it has belonged to the Ticino municipality of the same name .

geography

The place is 711 m above sea level. M. and still has around twenty permanent residents (2007). The village is a popular destination for hikers. Below the village is a station of the Centovalli Railway .

The station on the Centrovalli Railway

history

In the Middle Ages, the village formed a vicinanza (neighborhood) with Golino and Intragna , the first statutes of which date from 1365 (revised 1469). It had the right to delegate a representative to the council of the Pieve of Locarno.

Attractions

Baroque house

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 Giacomo Maggiore and Cristoforo, built in 1578
Oratory Madonna di Comino or della Segna on the Monti di Comino (1176 MuM)
Casa Tosetti (17th century)
Casa Cavalli, formerly Maggetti
Casa de Martini (1685)

literature

Rodolfo Huber: Intragna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Verdasio. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 217 f.
Karl Kerényi : La madonna ungherese di Verdasio: paesaggi dello spirito e paesaggio dell'anima. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2012.
Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. By the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 .
Celestino Trezzini : Verdasio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 8: Macheret - Z. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1934, p. 178 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Centovalli municipality website
Federal inventory ISOS: Verdasio (PDF; 872 kB)
Centovalli Intragna: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Catalogo ASTI, Verdasio at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed on December 11, 2017).
Verdasio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Simona Martinoli u. 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 , p. 218.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. By the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 234–243.

[1] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-2] Simona Martinoli u. 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 , p. 218.

[Rüsch-3] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. By the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 234–243.