Cugnasco-Gerra

Cugnasco - Gerra is a municipality in the district Navegna, in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. She is a resulting 20 April 2008 fusion community.

History

In 2005, the union of the community Cugnasco came with the exclave Gerre di Sotto the city of Locarno and the exclave Gerra Piano the community Gerra ( Verzasca) to the municipality Cugnasco - Gerra not materialize.

One of the reasons for the failure was that the old core area of ​​the municipality Gerra after the separation of its exclave lost in the middle of the Verzasca Valley in Magadinoebene the bulk of its population and instead of 1200 only about 200 people would have counted.

On 20 April 2008, the merger of Cugnasco with the entire municipality of Gerra (Verzasca ) was converted to the new community Cugnasco - Gerra (the Locarno Gerre di Sotto is not part of the fusion zone are ).

In the summer of 2010 a project was announced, with which the whole of the Verzasca Valley is to be summarized in a community, including includes the exclave of Cugnasco - Gerra, Gerra the area Valle on Fusion perimeter.

Attractions

• Parish Church of San Giuseppe
• Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie
• Oratory of San Martino, in the district of " Ditto "
• Oratory Santi and Anna Cristoforo, in the district " Curogna "
• Church of San Giovanni, in the district, " Gerra Piano »
• Church of Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù, in the district " Montedato ".