Verscio

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Verscio

Total population

1,120

Elevation275 m

Land area3.8 km²

Coordinates46.19°, 8.73°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Verscio is a former municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The municipalities of Cavigliano, Tegna and Verscio merged on 14 April 2013 into the new municipality of Terre di Pedemonte.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Gaetano Matteo Pisoni

Swiss-Italian architect (1713-1782)

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Michele Arnaboldi

Swiss architect

Pietro Berno

Swiss missionary

Nella Martinetti

Swiss singer (1946– 2011)

Dimitri

Swiss clown (1935–2016)

Antonio Ciseri

Italian painter (1821-1891)

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Claudio Baccalà

Swiss artist (1923-2007)

Giovanni Serodine

Italian painter (1594-1630)

B

Bruno Bisang

Swiss photographer

Daniela Ambrosoli

Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder and president of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation and film director

H

Hannes Wettstein

Swiss designer and architect (1958-2008)

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Giuseppe Torti

Swiss priest and theologian (1928-2005)

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Gotthard de Beauclair

German publisher (1907–1992)

W

Wilfried de Beauclair

German mathematician and engineer (1912–2020)

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Lothar Knaak

Swiss psychotherapist (1925-2006)

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Nicolas Thomkins

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Ticino

• Tegna
  0.6 mi away · pop. 757
• Cavigliano
  0.6 mi away · pop. 689
• Avegno
  1.4 mi away · pop. 1,534
• Intragna
  1.6 mi away · pop. 897
• Arcegno
  1.7 mi away
• Losone
  2 mi away · pop. 6,499
• Brè sopra Locarno
  2.1 mi away
• Ascona
  2.8 mi away · pop. 5,423
• Ronco sopra Ascona
  3 mi away · pop. 652
• Loco
  3.1 mi away · pop. 254
• Aurigeno
  3.3 mi away · pop. 384
• Locarno
  3.3 mi away · pop. 16,000

Browse all places in Ticino →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Verscio

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers