Stabio
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Stabio is a municipality in the district of Stabio, in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village is ten kilometers away from Chiasso, on the Italian border.
The village was already inhabited in Roman times. Its name is derived from the Latin word for stable stabulum.
Traffic
Stabio is on the main road 394 from Mendrisio to Malnate. A highway runs from the entrance of Stabio to motorway access Mendrisio -south. The railway line from Mendriso about Stabio to Malnate was decommissioned in 1928. The community is now connected by a bus service to the public transport network. In 2014, the new S -Bahn line from Mendriso about Stabio to Varese, was first built in 2009 to be opened.
Population
Ortsbürgergemeinde
Board of Directors
- President: Francesco Perucchi.
Active local middle-class families
- Della Casa, Ginella, Giorgetti, Gropetti, Induni, Luisoni, Pellegrini, Perucchi, Rusconi e Socchi.
Personalities
- Cadel Evans, cyclist.
- Luca Gerosa ( born September 19, 1856 in Stabio, † March 4, 1920 in Turin), sculptor.
- Lisa Della Casa, actress and concert singer
- Paolo Meneguzzi, singer.
Attractions
- Parish church of Santi Giacomo and Cristoforo, mentioned in 1275, with sculpture of wood ( 1663 ) by Paolo Lucino
- Oratory of Madonna di Caravaggio built in 1754/1758
- Oratory Maria Assunta or " del Castello " (16th century)
- Church of Santa Margherita, mentioned in 1437, with frescoes
- Rural museum Museo della civiltà contadina
- Camiceria Realini (1923 ), architect: Giuseppe Bordonzotti
- Primary school (1972/1974), architect Tita Carloni
- Kindergarten (1974/1975), architect: Marco Krahenbühl, Tino Bomio
- Villa « al Capriccio " ( 1925 ), architect: Giuseppe Bordonzotti.
- Family house (1666/1667), architect: Mario Botta
- In the district of " San Pietro ", Pietro and Lucia and mentioned 1275
- Old residential house Ghiringhelli (16th century)
- " Casa Rotonda " (1981/1982), architect: Mario Botta
- Oldtimermuseum Pietro Agustoni.