Auressio is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland

Switzerland

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In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Berzona

Berzona

Berzona is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Auressio and Loco to form a new and larger municipality Isorno.-History:...

 and Loco

Loco, Switzerland

Loco is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Auressio and Berzona to form a new and larger municipality Isorno.-History:...

 to form a new and larger municipality Isorno

Isorno

Isorno is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.The municipality was created in 2001 by a merger of Auressio, Berzona and Loco.-History:...

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History

Auressio is first mentioned in 1233 as Oraxio'.

Until the 19th Century, the village had much closer ties to Piedmont

Piedmont

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 than to the rest of the Onsernone valley. The construction of the road through the valley in the 19th Century brought it closer to the rest of the valley.

The church of S. Antonio Abate was finished in 1526 and became the center of an independent parish

Parish

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 in 1792 after it separated from Loco.

After World War II farming and grazing were almost abandoned and replaced by short-term, seasonal emigration. The improved transport links to the nearby town of Locarno

Locarno

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 increased Auressio's attractiveness as a place to live for those that were employed in Locarno. This led to a clear population increase in recent years.

One notable building in Auressio is the Villa Edera, which was built in 1887, for the Paris

Paris

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 impresario

Impresario

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Paolo Antonio Calzonio. It was restored in the early 1990s by the municipality and is now used as a hostel.

Historic population

The historical population is given in the following table:

Year	Population Auressio
1795	240
1808	273
1850	198
1900	164
1950	76
2000	71