Montagnola

Montagnola is a village in the municipality Collina d' Oro. It has more than 2,100 residents and is located a few kilometers southwest of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It consists of the fractions " Viglio ", " Orino ", " Arasio ", " Certenago ", " Poporino ", " Barca " and " Scairolo ".

Until April 4, 2004 Montagnola was an independent municipality, but then was summarized in a church reform with Agra and Gentilino to the new community Collina d' Oro.

Geography

Situated atop a hill, offering from the once small mountain village from a wide view of Lake Lugano.

Personalities

  • From 1916-1924 Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown lived in Montagnola, the co-founder and co-owner until 1911 the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur.
  • Internationally known Montagnola was the poet Hermann Hesse, who until his death in 1962 lived from 1919 here and the place, among other things in the story Klingsor's Last Summer began a literary monument. The poet lived until 1931 in the eastern part of the castle-like Camuzzi before he finally established his residence in the Casa Rossa in the outskirts of the town. Today, the Torre Camuzzi, a directly grown right at the Casa Camuzzi Tower, the Hermann Hesse Museum, which was opened on the occasion of the 120th birthday of the writer on 2 July 1997 with the support of his son Heiner Hesse houses. Attached is a theme that leads the visitor through the town and around it to some places that had a special meaning for Hesse and partially found in his works.
  • The painter Gunter Böhmer came in 1933 with 22 years to Monatgnola to visit Hesse. He was referring to the upper floors of the western part of the Camuzzi and lived there until his death in 1986. The encounter with Hesse a lifelong friendship, which was reflected in a variety of sketches, portraits and texts of the painter was born. From 1944 to the 1960s the painter Hans Purrmann lived in Montagnola and found in the Camuzzi a ground floor apartment with Böhmers apartment. In 1955, the painter Georg Meister man lived in a apartment in the Casa Camuzzi, and later moved into the apartment Purrmann for some time the Swiss writer Hermann Burger one.
  • From 1959 until her death lived social scientists and theorists of the Frankfurt School, Max Horkheimer and Pollock in Montagnola.
  • Cesare Berra ( born February 4, 1850 in Saint Petersburg, † July 17, 1898 in Fribourg ), sculptor,
  • Antonio Camuzzi (* 1655 Montagnola, † 1724), plasterer
  • Arnoldo Camuzzi ( born January 29, 1838 in Saint Petersburg, † March 13, 1895 in Montagnola ), painter, engineer
  • Fabio Camuzzi (* 1653 Montagnola ), plasterer
  • Francesco Camuzzi (* 1651 Montagnola ), plasterer
  • Muzio Camuzzi (* 1717 Montagnola ), plasterer
  • Demetrio Camuzzi, Architect, Grand Council and the National
  • Alexandre Benois ( May 3, 1870 in Saint Petersburg, † February 9, 1960 in Paris), a painter, art critic
  • Luigi Simona, priests, art historian

Attractions

  • Oratory of Santi Nazario e Celso
  • Camuzzi
  • Primary school Collina d' Oro (1982/1984), architect: Livio Vacchini
  • Palace Gilardi, architect Domenico Gilardi
  • Oratory of San Mattia in Certenago, architect: Giacomo Alberti
  • Villa Berra, architect: Costantino Berra
  • Terrace House, via Matorell 7 -7b, architect: Mario Campi, Franco Pessina
  • Oratory of San Silvestro, in the district " Arasio ".

Grave of Hermann Hesse

Camuzzi Tower, entrance to the Hesse Museum

Cemetery

In Hesse Museum

Lugano District Monte San Salvatore Klingsor's Last Summer Georg Meistermann Grancia Melide, Switzerland Morcote Vico Morcote Barbengo Carabbia Carona, Ticino Municipalities of the canton of Ticino
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