Arogno
Arogno
Arogno is a municipality in the district Ceresio, in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Geography
It lies at the foot of the mountain Sighignola whose peak is already on Italian territory. Also, below the municipality borders Arogno to Italy, namely the Italian exclave Campione d' Italia on the shores of Lake Lugano.
Population
Personalities
- Adamo d' Arogno, builder of the Cathedral of San Vigilio in Trento
- Guido Bigarelli, marble sculptor.
- Stefano Consiglio (* 1644 in Arogno; †? ), Painter
- Luca Antonio Colomba (1674-1737), painter
- Giovanni Antonio Colomba, plasterer. , In http://www.sikart.ch/
- Giovanni Battista Colomba, painter, plasterer and architect.,
- Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo or Colomba (1717-1793), architect, painter and set designer
- Baldassare Maggi (before 1550-1629 ), architect in Bohemia
- Romeo Manzoni, politicians, freethinkers, National
- Alessandro Manzoni, Entrepreneur.
- Ivan Bianchi ( born December 12, 1811 in Varese, † December 24, 1893 () in Lugano? ), Watercolor painter, photographer.
Attractions
- Parish Church of Santo Stefano and ossuary
- Residence Cometta
- Teatro sociale
- Residential house Colomba
- Oratory of San Rocco
- Residence Manzoni (Post)
- In the district of " San Michele ", Oratory of San Michele
- Various oratory
- Oratory of San Vitale
- In the district of " Pugerna " goods complex Sant'Evasio
- In the district of " Valmara " oratorio Beata Vergine delle Grazie.