Stampa is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the Maloja district of the Swiss canton, Graubünden. It is now part of the municipality of

Bregaglia Bregaglia (Italian and rm, ) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. It was formed by the 2010 merger of the municipalities of Bondo, Castasegna, Soglio, Stampa and Vicosoprano, all located in the Val ...

History

Stampa is first mentioned after 1354 as ''Stamppa'' and was named so in honor of the

Stampa Stampa is a former municipality in the Maloja district of the Swiss canton, Graubünden. It is now part of the municipality of Bregaglia. History Stampa is first mentioned after 1354 as ''Stamppa'' and was named so in honor of the Stampa fami ...

family, overlords of the area.

Geography

Stampa has an area, , of . Of this area, 14.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (66.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located in the Bergell sub-district of the Maloja district and is the administrative and cultural center of the sub-district. The municipality is divided into two distinct territories, the smaller in the

Val Bregaglia The Val Bregaglia ( lmo, Val Bregaja; german: Bergell, ; rm, ) is an alpine valley of Switzerland and Italy at the base of which runs the river Mera ( lmo, Maira in Switzerland). Most of the valley falls within the Swiss district of Maloja ...

and the larger which extends from the two sides of the

Maloja Pass Maloja Pass ( Italian: ''Passo del Maloja'', German: ''Malojapass'') (1815m a.s.l.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking the Engadine with the Val Bregaglia, still in Switzerland and Chiavenna in It ...

and

Engadin The Engadin or Engadine ( rm, ;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is ''Nagiadegna'', and in Sutsilvan, it is ...

. It consists of the valley settlements of Stampa, Borgonovo, Coltura, Montaccio, Caccior (at an elevation of ), Cavril and Canova at the foot of the

(at ) and the sections of Maloja with Isola, Orden, Pila and Capolago (at ). On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Bondo,

Castasegna Castasegna () is a former municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Grisons, on the Italian border. It is currently part of the municipality of Bregaglia. The town is situated in the Bergell valley, above the river Mera. ...

, Soglio, Stampa, and

Vicosoprano Vicosoprano is a former municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and is the largest village in the Val Bregaglia. It's now part of the municipality of Bregaglia. History Vicosoprano is first mentioned in 1096 a ...

merged into a new municipality of

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 Lägh da Cavloc is located in the Val Forno.

Demographics

Stampa has a population () of 595, of which 14.5% are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.6%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 19-Oct-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 48.4% male and 51.6% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Stampa is; 65 children or 12.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 40 teenagers or 7.5% are 10 to 14, and 21 teenagers or 4.0% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 41 people or 7.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 70 people or 13.2% are 30 to 39, 84 people or 15.8% are 40 to 49, and 71 people or 13.4% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 69 people or 13.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 44 people or 8.3% are 70 to 79, there are 23 people or 4.3% who are 80 to 89, and there are 3 people or 0.6% who are 90 to 99.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the

2007 federal election This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not ...

the most popular party was the SVP which received 57.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (22.5%), the FDP (16.2%) and the CVP (2.6%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Stampa about 65% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a '' Fachhochschule''). Stampa has an unemployment rate of 1.71%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 64 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

and there are 11 businesses in this sector. 191 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

, with 42 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Languages

Most of the population () speaks Italian (66.1%), with German being second most common (27.7%) and Romansh language, Romansh being third ( 1.9%). However, because a portion of the municipality lies in the

valley and a part lies in the Val Bregaglia, there are also German and Romansh minorities.

Famous people

One family of famous artists, the Giacometti, come from Stampa. The most famous members of the family are: * Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933) * Augusto Giacometti (1877–1947), cousin of Giovanni * Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), son of Giovanni * Diego Giacometti (1902–1985), son of Giovanni * Bruno Giacometti (1907-2012), son of Giovanni.

Heritage sites of national significance

Palazzo Castelmur is listed as a Swiss Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance, heritage site of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 19-Oct-2009 File:CH Coltura Palazzo Castelmur 2.jpg, Palazzo Castelmur File:CH Coltura Palazzo Castelmur 1.jpg, Back side of Palazzo Castelmur

References

External links

Site of the Val Bregaglia
with information about Stampa
Site of the office of tourism for Maloja Pass
{{Authority control Bregaglia Cultural property of national significance in Graubünden Populated places disestablished in 2010