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Vico Morcote
Coat of arms of Vico Morcote
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Lugano districtw
Circle : Paradiso district
BFS no. : 5233i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6921
Coordinates : 715 077  /  87670 coordinates: 45 ° 55 '51 "  N , 8 ° 55' 20"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifteen thousand and seventy-seven  /  87670
Height : 424  m above sea level M.
Height range : 270–814 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.97  km²
Residents: 405 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 206 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.vicomorcote.ch
Vico Morcote

Vico Morcote

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Vico Morcote is a municipality in the Paradiso district , in the Lugano district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . With its original character, the village is a popular tourist destination.

geography

The village is 424  m above sea level. M. on the south- eastern slope of Monte Arbostora around 150 meters above Lake Lugano opposite Brusino Arsizio . A little to the northeast, the district of Olivella is also slightly above the lake shore , while Colombaio is located directly on the lake on the municipal border with Melide .

history

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The village is mentioned for the first time in 1022 under the then name Vico Morcao , it belonged together with the Carabietta to the concilium of Morcote and formed with Morcote one of the privileged or special communities.

population

Population development
year 1591 1801 1850 1900 1950 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2012 2014 2016
Residents 120 131 179 166 188 221 224 218 250 315 357 370 378 382

traffic

Vico Morcote is accessed by side roads that connect the village with Carona , Melide and Morcote. 4 km to the southwest is the Melide train station on the Bellinzona - Lugano - Chiasso line of the Swiss Federal Railways .

Attractions

  • Parish church of Saints Fidelis and Simon (Chiesa parocchiale dei Santi Fedele e Simone) with main altar by the sculptor Giacomo Pellegatta from Cadro
  • Palazzo Bazzurri with stucco decoration
  • Villa Achillea
  • Gianini house, architect: Mario Chiattone
  • Peter Smithers mansion and private park

Personalities

  • Raggi family of artists
  • Fra Ferdinando da Vico Morcote (* around 1625 in Vico Morcote, † after 1686 in Lugano ), Franciscan, miniature painter
  • Gaetano Polari (born November 6, 1826 in Vico Morcote, † April 5, 1894 in Morcote ) Lawyer, politician, editor
  • Hans Herbert Blatzheim (1905–1968), German major restaurateur and entrepreneur
  • Peter Smithers (1913-2006), British intelligence officer.
  • Luido Bernasconi (* 1948), lawyer, politician, former mayor of Vico Morcote and former president of FC Luganos .

photos

  • Church of Santi Fedele and Simone

  • Ristoro Alpe Vicania

  • Village center

literature

  • Katrin Bechtler: A few days in Vico Morcote. Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main, Salzburg 1980.
  • Eva Camenisch Luisoni: Vico Morcote. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 28, 2011 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 438, 581-582.
  • Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel '600 , Stato del Cantone Ticino, Bellinzona 1983, pp. 159, 160, 161, 169.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 349-351.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Vico Morcote. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 7, Ungelt - Villarvolard. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1934, p. 243 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Vico Morcote  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ Eva Camenisch Luisoni: Morcote. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 349–351.
  4. ↑ Martino Raggi. In: Sikart , accessed January 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Antonio Raggi (il Giovane). In: Sikart , accessed January 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ferdinando da Vico Morcote at archive.org/stream (accessed January 2, 2017).
  7. ↑ Marco Marcacci: Gaetano Polari. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 24, 2010 , accessed April 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Luido Bernasconi punished (Italian) on cdt.ch/ticino (accessed October 25, 2016).