page_title: Onsernone
section_title: Russo
hierarchical_section_title: Onsernone / History / Russo
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dorfzentrum von Russo
context_page_description: Onsernone is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino, near the city of Locarno. The river Isorno runs through this valley.
  The municipality was created in 1995 by a merger of Comologno, Crana and Russo.
  On 10 April 2016 the former municipalities of Vergeletto, Gresso, Mosogno and Isorno merged into Onsernone.
context_section_description: During the Ancien Régime, Russo belonged to the Squadra of Russo, part of the old municipality of Onsernone.
  The parish was probably created in 1656, when it separated from Loco.  It included Comologno until 1715, Vergeletto until 1757, and Crana until 1787.  The parish church of S. Maria Assunta is first mentioned in 1365, and was renovated in 1995–2002.
  Until about the mid-20th century, agriculture, animal husbandry and straw plaiting were the main sources of income in the village.  This was supplemented by the traditional seasonal migration.  While the number of inhabitants had decreased consistently over the decades, it began increasing in the 1970s.  In 1989, the opening of the Centro sociale onsernonese nursing home provided a few dozen jobs in the village.
caption: Village center of Russo
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