Melide, Switzerland

Melide is a municipality on Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino in the (district Lugano) in the district of Paradiso.

Geography

The place is below the Monte San Salvatore and on the western side of the dam of Melide bridging the Strait between Melide and Bissone.

Matteo Castelli (* around 1560 in Melide, † 1632 in Warsaw? ), Architect
Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614), architect and engineer in Rome (sewer of the Tiber ); Site Manager St Peter
Domenico Fontana (1543-1607), the city planner for Pope Sixtus V in Rome, offset 1586 an obelisk in St. Peter's Square, completed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica and built the Lateran Palace; had to leave Rome in 1592 and continued ( Palazzo Reale) his work in Naples, discovered the buried Pompeii.
Filiberto Lucchese (1606-1666, Vienna), Vienna Hofbaumeister

Parish church of Santi Quirico and Giulitta
Melide is well known throughout Switzerland for Swiss Miniatur, an open air museum that presents a miniature Switzerland.
Causeway of Pasquale Lucchini
Interesting and well known by the media coverage is also the Villa Branca - a 1912 -built winery representative on the lakeshore, which was extended ten years later by the architect Americo Marazzi the east; grants is demolished and a new building soft. ,
Old Kalchshochofen
Former brickworks.

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