Genestrerio

Genestrerio

Genestrerio was until April 4, 2009, a municipality in the district of Mendrisio, in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village is ten kilometers away from Chiasso, on the Italian border.

On 25 November 2007, the merger of the municipalities Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona was approved by the voters. They have joined together by April 5, 2009 the new church Mendrisio.

History

Genestrerio was already inhabited before the first millennium. Documented evidence of the village is the first time around 1300. Since the beginning of the 16th century, many inhabitants of the village found as a mason in Italy their income. In the 18th and 19th century, the Boffi family and a representative of Coldirari as plasterers were known.

Personalities

• Giovanni Bianchi ( born October 29, 1851 in Genestrerio, † December 5, 1916 in Chur), sculptor
• Paolo Bellini ( born February 28, 1941 in Mendrisio ), sculptor
• Anna Bianchi ( born February 19, 1953 in Mendrisio ), sculptor
• Giovanni Bianchi ( born February 5, 1893 in Chur, † 19 June 1975), a sculptor. Construction and tomb sculpture
• Olga Emma Bianchi Wenker ( born December 17, 1895 in Croix -des- Biches, † 25 October 1976 in Chur), a sculptor. Portraits and figures. textile works
• Paul Bianchi ( born October 21, 1920 in Chur, † November 25, 1973 in Carouge ), sculptor. Animal sculpture, nudes and portraits

Attractions

• Parish church of Sant'Antonio Abate (1651/1689) with marble facade (2001/2002) Architect: Mario Botta; in the interior, frescoes ( 1797), the painter Giovanni Battista Bagutti, Giudizio Universale ( Last Judgment ) of the painter Antonio RinaldiRenaissance painting perhaps as called by Ambrogio Fossano Bergognone and Sant'Ambrogio statue of the sculptor Agostino Silva
• Rectory (1961/1963), architect: Mario Botta.