Bosco/Gurin

Bosco/Gurin (name doubles Italian/Suisse German walser) is a Commune Switzerland Canton of Tessin.

The village is located at 1506 meters of altitude, in the upper part of the Val Maggia. It is the highest village of Tessin, and it is also the only traditionally German-speaking commune of this canton.

Bosco/Gurin was founded in 1253 by colonists walser come from the High-Were worth, which brought their Germanic dialect . The community remained very isolated until the beginning from the 20th century, which made it possible the local dialect to preserve particularly antiquated features.

Today, however, one witnesses a strong retreat of German to the profit of the Italian . In 1970,82% of the inhabitants of the commune were German-speaking, against only 33% in 2000. (Source: Federal censuses of the population)

Geography

Bosco Gurin is the only German-speaking commune of the canton of the Tessin. It is located at 1506 meters of altitude, at the bottom of the Valley Rovana, in the upper part of the Vallemaggia, 35 km of the North-West of Locarno. It is the most village of Tessin.

The territory of the commune culminates with 2856 meters of altitude, in Wandfluhhorn.

In 1858, Bosco Gurin counted 420 more inhabitants, in 1955 220, and 2005 72.

Since the years 1970, the village became a ski station with 20 kilometers of tracks on 800 meters of unevenness.

History

Bosco Gurin is connected to Were worth by the pedestrian way of the collar of Guriner Furka. The Walser came from the Valley Italian Formazza, about 1240, to join the Valley Bosco and to establish a community to with it.

The first written mention of the existence of Bosco Gurin goes up with 1253, under the toponym of Lo Busco de Quarino. It indicates that the church of the village was devoted by a priest about the minor brothers of the Saint-Georges church of Locarno.

Of 1798 with 1803, Bosco/Gurin belonged to the canton of Lugano, then, since 1803 with that of the Tessin.

Transport

Curiosities

  • Museum of the culture Walser
  • Parish church Saint-Jacques-and-Saint-Christophe

External bonds

  • Bosco Gurin in the historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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