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unusual facts about Canton of Ticino



John Maria Gatti

Born as Joannes Maria Aemilius in Dongio, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, he was the eldest son of the entrepreneur Agostino Gatti.

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.

Sberna

Galo dialect drift Italico (Lombard language), mixture of French, Italian and German or maybe the (Romansh) spoken in the Canton of Grisons (Graubünden (Switzerland), Lombardy (Italy) and Canton of Ticino (Switzerland), whose etymology seems to be very old and date back to the time of Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic tribes, between present-Switzerland, part of Belgium, part of Austria and northern Italy.

Swiss rock

In the beginning of the 1990s, in Southern Switzerland (canton of Ticino) a very active neo-progressive rock scene produced two bands with world wide footprint: Clepsydra (InsideOut Music) and Shakary (SHK Records).


see also

Acquarossa

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

Besso

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

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.

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.

Margrit Mondavi

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

Swiss Italian

Swiss Italian is spoken as natively by about 350,000 people in the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Graubünden (Canton Grigioni).

Willi Forst

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