- Biasca
Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Biasca
municipality_name = Biasca
municipality_type = municipality
imagepath_coa = Biasca-coat of arms.svg|pixel_coa=
languages = Italian
canton = Ticino
iso-code-region = CH-TI
district = Riviera
lat_d=46|lat_m=21|lat_NS=N|long_d=8|long_m=58|long_EW=E
postal_code = 6710
municipality_code = 5281
area = 58.1
elevation = 301|elevation_description=
population = 5935|populationof = December 2004 | popofyear = 2004
website = www.biasca.ch
mayor = |mayor_asof=|mayor_party=
mayor_title = |list_of_mayors =
places = Loderio, Ponte, Pontirone, Sant'Anna, Valle
demonym =
neighboring_municipalities=Cauco (GR),Iragna , Lodrino,Malvaglia ,Osogna ,Personico ,Pollegio , Rossa (GR),Semione
twintowns = |Biasca is a town of the district of Riviera in the canton of
Ticino inSwitzerland .Geography
The municipality lies at the entrance to the Blenio valley, 19 km north of
Bellinzona , on the banks of theBrenno . About 3 km east of Biasca is the small lake of Carigiolo, from which a stream with an 80 m. waterfall flows. The villages of Loderio, Ponte, Pontirone, Sant'Anna, and Valle belong to the municipality.History
Roman coins have been found in Biasca, testifying to its occupation in antiquity.
The church of Biasca has sculptures and paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. It was built in 1213. A second Catholic church, the Rotonda di San Carlo, is a magnificent example of the modern architecture of the
Milan ese architect Macciacchini.A landslide from the Monte Crenone (now called Pizzo Magno) in 1512 buried many houses in Biasca and killed hundreds of people. This was one of the major landslides in the
Alps in modern times. It dammed the Brenno, forming a 14-kilometer-long lake. This dam broke in the spring of 1514, flooding the Ticino valley to the Magadino plain.In 1900 the building of the Gotthard Railway employed about 100 workers in Biasca.
References
External links
* [http://www.biasca.ch Official website] it icon
* [http://www.biascaturismo.ch Biasca and Riviera Tourism website] (Italian, French, German, English)
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