page_title: Giubiasco
section_title: Modern Giubiasco
hierarchical_section_title: Giubiasco / History / Modern Giubiasco
caption_attribution_description: Linoleum site in Giubiasco, Switzerland, 1932
context_page_description: Giubiasco is a former municipality in the district of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
  On 2 April 2017 the former municipalities of Camorino, Claro, Gnosca, Gorduno, Gudo, Moleno, Monte Carasso, Pianezzo, Preonzo, Sant'Antonio and Sementina merged into the municipality of Bellinzona.
context_section_description: On 25 August 1814, the leaders of the liberal revolutionary people's movement in the Ticino met in Giubiasco, to resist the oligarchic cantonal constitution of 29 July.  The so-called Revolt of Giubiasco, set up a temporary government but was soon crushed by Federal troops.  The leaders were given heavy sentences.  In 1853 the Camorino-Giubiasco-Sementina line was fortified, while the fortifications around Giubiasco were later dismantled, the Fortini della fame at Camorino is still visible.  The 19th and 20th Century brought profound changes to the economy and society of the municipality.  Due to its geographic location near Bellinzona, it became a station on the Gotthard railway.  The connection to Locarno was completed in 1874, followed in 1882 by the Lugano and Luino route.
  In 1905-06 two factories grew up next to the railway line; the linoleum works (later Forbo factory) and the Lenz engineering works (later Fischer e del San Gottardo Acciaierie Elettriche, closed 1925).  In 1932, the Cattaneo AG ironworks opened.  The ironworks still have a role in the regional economy.
  Agriculture has remained virtually unchanged, cereals, fruit and vegetable are grown of the plains and vineyards are on the hillside.  A wine cooperative opened in 1928 and a market hall in 1937.  Warehouses, mills and silos for an agricultural cooperative (Società cooperativa agricola ticinese, founded in 1941) supported other municipalities of the region.
  The strong population growth in the 1970s and 80s, a consequence of the emergence of medium-sized industrial and small commercial businesses south of the main settlement, has slowed recently.  The built-up area for housing and for commercial properties have extended from the old population centers at the foot of the mountain down into the valley floor.  In 2000, about two-thirds of jobs were in the services sector, and about a fifth were in the manufacturing sector.
caption: Linoleum factory in Giubiasco
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