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Besso

Besso, Ticino, a suburb of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino


Acquarossa

Acquarossa, Switzerland, the capital of the district of Blenio in the canton of Ticino.

Act of Mediation

Two of the new cantons (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) were formerly "associates", while the four others were made up of subject lands (i.e. controlled by other cantons) that had been conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), Thurgau (1460), Ticino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536).

Andrea-Salvatore Aglio

Notes about his life are provided by the Historical Dictionary of illustrious men of the Canton Ticino, published in 1807 by Gian Alfonso Oldelli, from Meride (who personally knew the artist).

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

Albrecht personally supervised the crossing of the Ticino and by the handling of his division ensuring victory at Novara on 23 March 1849.

Bernate Ticino

Bernate Ticino borders the following municipalities: Cuggiono, Galliate, Mesero, Marcallo con Casone, Romentino, Boffalora sopra Ticino, Trecate.

Besozzi

Besozzi is the surname of an ancient and noble family of Western Insubria still present in Lombardy and Ticino, with dozens of family strains.

Boffalora sopra Ticino

Boffalora sopra Ticino borders the following municipalities: Marcallo con Casone, Bernate Ticino, Magenta, Trecate, Cerano.

Borgo Ticino

Borgo Ticino borders the following municipalities: Agrate Conturbia, Castelletto sopra Ticino, Comignago, Divignano, Varallo Pombia, and Veruno.

Brissago

In 1949 the islands were acquired under joint ownership: the canton of Ticino, the municipalities of Brissago, Ascona and Ronco sopra Ascona, the Swiss Heritage Society and the Swiss Federation for Nature Conservation.

Cartography of Switzerland

Over the following few years, a composite map was published of Ticino, soundings had started to measure the depth of the major Swiss lakes, and a first map was published, scaled 1:250.000.

Die schwarzen Brüder

Georgio grew up in the small Ticino mountain village Sonogno.

Falce e Martello

Falce e Martello (English: Hammer and Sickle) was an Italian-language communist weekly newspaper published as the organ of the Communist Party of Switzerland in Ticino.

Ferdinando Fontana

Inno del Canton Ticino (Anthem of Canton Ticino) as well as songs and romanzas set to music by various composers, including Nicolò Massa and Francesco Paolo Tosti.

Franklin College Switzerland

The team competes with other clubs in the league from the Canton of Ticino.

The Franklin campus is residential, and is located on a hillside overlooking the town of Lugano, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

Gervasoni

Gervasoni is an Italian surname from the Lombardia region of Italy and the Ticino canton of Switzerland.

Giovanni Battista Colomba

He was born in Arogno in the Ticino, and was active there including in the monastery of San Floriano.

Glenn Fleishman

Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), and attended the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland, in 1989.

Gotthard railway

What was originally considered the main line continues down the valley of the Ticino, crossing the Italian border and continuing to meet the Italian railway system at Pino on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

At the age of sixteen, he joined the staff command of General Clarck, upon the departure of Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, for the Marengo campaign, where French forces defeated the Austrian army on 14 June 1800, forcing them to withdraw from Italy west of Ticino.

Leonardo Conti

Conti was born to a Swiss Italian father, Silvio, and a German mother, Nanna Pauli, in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland; his mother later became the Reich Midwifery Leader in Nazi Germany.

Man in the Holocene

It contains some autobiographical elements: Frisch at the time of the writing is about the same age as the protagonist, Mr. Geiser, and Frisch also had a house in the Tessin valley where the story is set.

Margrit Mondavi

A native of Appenzell, Switzerland, Margrit was raised in her family home overlooking Lake Maggiore, in the canton of Ticino.

Mauro Lustrinelli

In Ticino, the Canton where Lustrinelli is originally from, after the great game against Togo a fanatic "Lustrimania" exploded.

Melide causeway

The Melide causeway, sometimes called the Melide bridge or Melide dam, is a causeway and bridge across Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

Menshikov Tower

The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl.

Domenico Trezzini, subordinate to Zarudny, was placed in charge of European craftsmen (of Fontana, Rusco, Ferrara and other Ticino families) but after half a year was dispatched to Saint Petersburg.

Mixosaurus

Many specimens of Mixosaurus cornalianus have been found from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio and the Tessin areas on the border of Italy and Switzerland.

Nino Bixio

On 4 November 1847, he made himself conspicuous at Genoa by seizing the bridle of Charles Albert's horse and crying, "Pass the Ticino, Sire, and we are all with you."

Opel Ascona

The Ascona took its name from the lakeside resort of that name in Ticino, Switzerland, and already in the 1950s a special edition of the Opel Rekord P1 was sold as an Opel Ascona in Switzerland, where the name was again used in 1968 for a locally adapted version of the Opel Kadett B into which the manufacturers had persuaded a 1.7-litre engine borrowed from the larger Rekord model of the time.

Rudolf Pannwitz

Rudolf Pannwitz (27 May 1881, Crossen/Oder, Silesia, Prussia - 23 March 1969, Astano, Ticino, Switzerland) was a German writer, poet and philosopher.

Rydzyna Castle

Other artists under the artistic patronage of the Leszczyński family were three brothers Catenazzi from Morbio Inferiore in Mendrisiotto, (in Ticino, Switzerland).

Saint-Gotthard Massif

The Saint-Gotthard Massif (German: Gotthardmassiv) is a mountain range in the Alps in Switzerland, located at the border of four cantons: Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden.

Santo Stefano Ticino

Santo Stefano Ticino borders the following municipalities: Arluno, Ossona, Marcallo con Casone, Corbetta, and Magenta.

Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni

This monument was the home of wise Swiss Moses Santiago Bertoni (born 1857 Lottigna, Ticino, Switzerland, died 1929 Foz de Iguazu, Paraguay), which eventually settled in this area while still young, and provided invaluable services to the people and Paraguayan Government.

Sonderbund War

But contrary to triumphant proclamations in the Sonderbund newspapers, the action failed to effectively separate the federal troops under Luvini in the Ticino from those in the Grisons under Eduard de Salis-Soglio (the brother of the insurgent commander), because the San Bernardino Pass remained open to the Confederates.

Squarcina Borri

Born in Santo Stefano Ticino in 1230, Squarcina was the son of Lanfranco of Borri (end of 12th – early 13th century), the local feudal lord of the city of Santo Stefano Ticino.

Swiss Party of Labour

Holding two seats in the Swiss National Council (lower or first chamber of the Swiss parliament), going into the 2007 elections, the party stood candidates in the cantons of Zürich, Vaud, Geneva and the Ticino on their own, and in Neuchâtel the candidate was on a joint list with Solidarity.

In 2007, the Ticino section voted to change the cantonal party's name back to the earlier Partito Comunista.

Virginia Tech Foundation

Center for European Studies and Architecture Located in Ticino, Switzerland the CESA is an offers semester-long and summer study abroad programs for undergraduate and graduate students.

Willi Forst

After the death of his wife in 1973 he lived a reclusive life in the Swiss canton of Tessin.


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