Villa Luganese

Villa Luganese ; district of Lugano
Coordinates	720 470 / 101549 coordinates: 46 ° 3 '17 " N , 8 ° 59' 43" O ; CH1903: seven hundred twenty thousand four hundred seventy / 101549
height	Ø 603 m
surface	2.21 km²
Residents	556 (December 31, 2015)
Population density	252 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 20, 2008
BFS no.	519-2023
Post Code	6966

Parish before the merger on April 20, 2008

Villa Luganese (1948)

Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta

Villa Luganese is a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Lugano Nord district , in the Lugano district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is located at the entrance to Valcolla on the border with Italy .

geography

The village is 597 m above sea level. M at the foot of the Denti della Vecchia mountain .

history

A first reference to the village in 864 under the then name Colonaco , 1209 Coliono , then La Villa ; Lavilla 1419. It belonged to the rule of San Carpoforo of Como , then to the castellanza Sonvico , enjoyed an inner independence like the other villages of the castellanza Sonvico.

Merger with the city of Lugano

On September 30, 2007, the voters of Barbengo , Carabbia and Villa Luganese approved the incorporation of these three municipalities into the city of Lugano . The voters of the municipality of Cadro, however, rejected the merger. Although this made Villa Luganese an exclave of the city of Lugano, which in principle makes incorporation impossible, Villa Luganese was incorporated into the municipality of Lugano. The merger became final on April 20, 2008.

population

Population development
year	1591	1801	1850	1900	1930	1950	2000	2015	2019
Residents	50 households	267	264	229	205	233	467	556	570

Attractions

Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta
Oratory of Santa Maria del Parlò.

Sports

Associazione Sportiva Villa Luganese

literature

Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, pp. 219, 221.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 486, 554, 582-583.
Antonio Gili: Villa Luganese. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 327-328.
Celestino Trezzini : Villa. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 7, Ungelt - Villardvolard. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1934, p. 249 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Antonio Gili: Villa Luganese. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 12, 2017 .
↑ Population of Villa Luganese at the end of 2019 on statistica.lugano.ch/site/demografia/
↑ ^a ^b Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 327–328.
↑ Associazione Sportiva Villa Luganese on football.ch/ftc/

[1] Antonio Gili: Villa Luganese. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 12, 2017 .

[2] Population of Villa Luganese at the end of 2019 on statistica.lugano.ch/site/demografia/

[Martinoli-3] Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 327–328.

[4] Associazione Sportiva Villa Luganese on football.ch/ftc/