Bosco/Gurin
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Bosco/Gurin (, Walser German: Gurin / Guryn, Lombard: Bosch / Gürin) is a municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village is near the end of the valley of Bosco Gurin, near the Italian border. Despite the overall prominence of Italian in Ticino, the small municipality of Bosco/Gurin is historically German-speaking.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bosco/Gurin
- Swiss town.image_photo
- BoscoGurin veduta.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Bosco-Gurin TI COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Bosco-Gurin Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Ticino
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-TI
- Swiss town.district
- Vallemaggia
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6685
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 5304
- Swiss town.area
- 22.04
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1504
- Swiss town.population
- 52
- Swiss town.website
- www.bosco-gurin.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Alberto Tomamichel
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Sindaco
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Campo, Cerentino, Cevio, Formazza (IT-VB), Premia (IT-VB)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Gurin
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Subdistrict Rovana
- Official language
- Italian
- Population
- 47
- Area
- 22.01
- Elevation
- 1506
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Formazza
- Official website
- www.bosco-gurin.ch
- Image
- BoscoGurin veduta.jpg
- Dialing code
- 091
- Licence plate code
- TI
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- Commons category
- Bosco Gurin
- postal code
- 6685
- mountain range
- Lepontine Alps
- P8168
- Lossa
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/5304
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Historic population
- Languages
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Bosco/Gurin (, Walser German: Gurin / Guryn, Lombard: Bosch / Gürin) is a municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village is near the end of the valley of Bosco Gurin, near the Italian border. Despite the overall prominence of Italian in Ticino, the small municipality of Bosco/Gurin is historically German-speaking.
==History== thumb|left|Snow-covered, historic buildings in the center of the village Bosco/Gurin is first mentioned in 1244 as als Buscho de Quarinobis. Until 1934, it was known as Bosco-Vallemaggia, and in German as Gurin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bosco/Gurin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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