Val Mesolcina
The Misox (Italian Val or Valle Mesolcina ) is a valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
History
The Sax ( de Sacco ) prevailed in the family Castello di Mesocco over the valley of Moesa and Calanca until 1480. This year, Giovanni Pietro de Sacco sold its sovereign rights to the Milanese generals Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. In the same year, the residents of Soazza Mesocco and leaned against the horror of the federal government, followed by the inhabitants of the remaining parts of the valleys on 4 August 1496th Gian Francesco Trivulzio approved in 1549 for a payment of 24,500 gold ducats a detachment of the remaining sovereign rights. Since this year the story of Misox is closely associated with the Three Leagues and Graubünden.
Geography
The Misox is like Bregaglia and Poschiavo a Graubunden valley south of the Alps. In Misox Italian is spoken as in Bregaglia and Poschiavo and not, as in the rest of Grisons Swiss German or Romansh.
The valley stretches from the San Bernardino Pass south to Grono where it joins the Calancatal, and thence westward to the border shortly before Ticino Bellinzona. By Misox flows the Moësa that shortly after the Ticino border in Ticino (Italian: Ticino ) opens. Neighboring valleys in the west and in the east the Calancatal the Val San Giacomo in Italy.
In Grono officially the highest ever recorded temperature in Switzerland was founded in 2003 with 41.5 ° C registered.
Places in Misox
The Misox is essentially congruent with the circles Mesocco and Roveredo in the district Moesa.
For Misox includes the following municipalities: