Personico

Personico is a municipality in the district of Giornico in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Geography

The village Personico lies on the valley floor to the shady side of the Levantine. The municipal area includes the valleys of Val d' Ambra, Val and Val Marcri Nedro. In Personico there is a small beverage factory that manufactures " gazzosa Ticinese " ( lemon, mandarin and raspberry lemonade ) from " Fizzy ".

The municipality is bordered to the north by Bodio, on the northeast by Pollegio, to the east by Biasca, to the south by Iragna, on the southwest by Lavertezzo, on the west by Frasco and to the northwest by Giornico.

Attractions

Sacred buildings

• Parish church of Santi Nazario e Celso Fondata nel 1256
• Oratory of San Rocco, in the district " Faidàl " built end 16th - early 17th century.

Civil buildings

• Power station Nuova Biaschina built in 1962 by engineer Giovanni Lombardi and architect Augusto Jäggli
• Old glasses factory built in 1736 (painter Giuseppe Maria Busca )
• Numerous grottos
• Old Bridge since Picol
• Old Bridge del Cassinone
• Old stone fountain
• Dam Val d' Ambra.

Economy

An economic significance of the small dam in the Val d' Ambra. In 2007 there were plans to increase the dam significantly, so that a larger part of the valley would have been put under water ..