Ligornetto

Ligornetto

Ligornetto was up on April 13, 2013 a municipality in the district Stabio, in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Since April 14 Ligornetto belongs to the municipality and to the district Mendrisio. The village is ten kilometers away from Chiasso, on the Italian border.

The village was already inhabited in Roman times. Worth seeing are the churches of San Lorenzo Martire from the 12th century and San Giuseppe.

Personalities

  • Vincenzo Vela (1820-1891), sculptor
  • Apollonio Pessina (1879-1958), sculptor.
  • Carl Burckhardt ( born January 13, 1878 in Lindau, † December 24, 1923 in Ligornetto ), sculptor and painter
  • Milo Cleis ( born May 11, 1936 in Ligornetto ), sculptor
  • Daniele Cleis ( born April 12, 1944 in Ligornetto ), a painter, sculptor, lecturer
  • Fiorenza Casanova ( born July 3, 1951 in Lugano), Aquarellistin, photographer, illustrator, mosaic worker
  • Mario Casanova ( born January 22, 1962 in Locarno ), painter
  • Ugo Crivelli (* November 4, 1923 in Ligornetto, † November 20, 1998 in Cortaillod ), painter, sculptor, engraver
  • Irene Pusterla wide - Dreisprungaltletin.

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Lorenzo (1736/1741), architect: Giuseppe Caresana with decorative paintings ( 1777), the painter Cipriano Pelli and three murals Saint Lorenzoslebens Episodes: alms, martyrdom, bid farewell to Pope Sixtus II of the painter Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colomba
  • Museum Vincenzo Vela (1962/1965), architect: Cipriano Ajmetti,
  • Residence Casanova with hatching on the facade
  • Residence Vincenzo Vela thinking panel
  • Weighing space with justice statue by the sculptor Vincenzo Vela
  • Family house (1959/1960), architect Tita Carloni, Luigi Camenisch
  • Residence Pessina with the sculptor's studio Apollonio Pessina
  • Oratory of San Giuseppe ( fiction tombs nearby) construction ( 16th century ), with frescoes on the facade; in the interior marble altar and various paintings
  • Family house (1975/1976), architect: Mario Botta
  • Primary school (1954, architect: Mario Salvadè )
  • At the cemetery: Vincenzo Velas Tomb (1893 ), in the charnel house of the sculptor Vincenzo Vela statue of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Pictures

Museo Vela in Ligornetto

Museo Vela

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