page_title: Lavizzara
section_title: Peccia
hierarchical_section_title: Lavizzara / History / Peccia
caption_attribution_description: English: Paragliding above the Peccia valley, Ticino, Switzerland
context_page_description: Lavizzara is a municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
  The municipality was created in 2004 by a merger of Broglio, Brontallo, Fusio, Menzonio, Peccia and Prato-Sornico.
context_section_description: Peccia, together with Broglio, Fusio, Prato and Sornico were part of the comunità or valley community of Lavizzara until 1374.  When the valley community broke up into separate villages, Peccia was the largest in the Lavizzara region.  It included the settlement of Mogno and the Valle di Peccia, which was independent until 1669.  The common, shared land of the four communities of Fusio, Peccia, Prato and Sornico (known as the comunella dei quattro comuni) remained shared until 1929.
  The village was part of the parish of Sornico until 1613, after which the church of S. Antonio Abate in Peccia was elevated to become a parish church.  The church was built in the 16th century.  After the floods of 1834 and 1868, which destroyed some of the village, the church was totally rebuilt.  The valley church of S. Carlo was built in 1617, and was raised to be the parish church in 1669.
  At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the jobs in the village were in the extraction, processing (vessels and stone ovens) and trade in soapstone.  Since 1946, white marble is also mined, which is the only marble quarry in Switzerland.  In 1984, the presence of marble led to the creation of a sculpting school.  This marble was used when the church of Mogno (a hamlet of Fusio) was rebuilt by Mario Botta, after the old church was destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
  At the beginning of the 21st century, manufacturing provides more than a third of the jobs in village.  In 1950-56 largest hydroelectric power plants in Switzerland was built in the Valle di Peccia.  It is fed by water from the catchment area of the Maggia river.  In the last decades of the 20th century, the village invested in its tourist infrastructure.
caption: Peccia valley
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