Muralto

Muralto

Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The community has grown together with the adjacent Locarno and Lake Maggiore is located on the eastern edge of the Maggia delta.

Traffic

In Muralto is the Locarno train station where two railroad lines terminate. It is round about the opened of the Gotthard Railway, standard gauge train line from Bellinzona ago, which did not affect the municipality of Locarno, and the narrow gauge railway Cento Valli ( FART / SSIF ) from Domodossola. Both routes end in terminal stations, the train line in the above-ground " Hauptbahnhof ", the FART - line since 1990 in its own underground station within the railway area, north of the SBB systems. The underground station reaches the FART about their tunnel route, which starts in front of San Antonio Locarno Locarno and moves below.

Personalities

  • Paul Klee ( born December 18, 1879 in Munich Buchsee, Canton Bern, † June 29, 1940 in Muralto, Canton Ticino ), painter and graphic artist
  • Richard Katz ( born October 21, 1888 in Prague, † 8 November 1968, Muralto, Ticino), journalist and travel writer
  • Diego Bianconi ( born August 7, 1957 in Muralto ), painter, etcher
  • Franco Forini, racers, inter alia, Formula 1 team Osella Squadra Corse 1987
  • Erich Fromm ( born March 23, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main, † March 18, 1980 in Muralto, Switzerland ), psychoanalyst, philosopher and social psychologist
  • Emilio Maria Beretta ( born March 27, 1907 in Muralto; † 1 July 1974 in Geneva ), a painter, glass painter, draftsman
  • Aldo Crivelli ( born June 18, 1907 in Chiasso, † 12 July 1981 in Muralto ), a painter, archaeologist, Schriffsteller, lecturer
  • Livio Bernasconi ( born April 23, 1932 in Muralto ), painter, lecturer
  • Raffaele Cavadini (born 1954 in Mendrisio ), architect, working in Muralto
  • Lorenzo Bianda ( born August 3, 1956 in Muralto ), Photographer, Computer Art

Attractions

  • Church of Santa Maria Annunciata
  • Chapel of St Joseph
  • Vicus,
  • Grand Hotel Locarno,
  • Villa Liverpool,
  • Villa Carmen of kinesicher politicians Lou Tseng Tsiang, Architect: Eugenio Cavadini (1900/1905)
  • Villa Pauliska in eklettischer style
  • Villa Bella Vista, (1900)
  • Villa Rose Marie in home style (1916 ) by F. Aeschbach, architect Ferdinando Ficher
  • Villa Moretti, (1920 ) with Belvedere, Architect: Enea Tallone
  • Villa Rovana, (1911 ) Attilio Zanolini owner, architect: Olinto Tognola
  • Villa Farinelli, (1896 ), owner Giuseppe Farinelli, Archizekt: Paolo Zanini
  • Villa Cattori, owners Leone Cattori, in ekettischer style, architect Alessandro Ghezzi
  • Residence Emilia at Ponte Vecchio with frescoes on the façade (18th century)
  • Residential building with fresco on the facade of the Crucifix with Sante Caterina and Maria Maddalena
  • Bahnhof SBB, architect Adolf Goller
  • Arcades in via della stazione, architect Eugenio Agostino e Cavadini negli anni del XX trenta secolo.
  • Saint Agnes Hospital, built (1935/1936) in via Balli, Architect: Bruno Brunoni
  • Swimming pool Residenza al Parco Mosaic (2002) by the sculptor Pedro Pedrazzini.
  • In lakefront Giuseppe Motta Giuseppe Cattori monument of Bilkdhauers Fiorenzo Abbondio (1939 ) on granite base with bronze relief.
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