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Melide commune (Ticino canton, Switzerland)

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Melide

image by Pascal Gross

Azure an anchor cabled or.
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2003

The anchor on the flag of Melide is an evident symbol for this lake-village partially built on a natural dam.
Melide is also the place where you can see all the major monuments of Switzerland in miniature (Swissminiatur).
Pascal Gross, 9 July 2003

The dam of Melide is partly natural, partly artificial, with Melide on the headland. From 1818 until the construction of a bridge-dam in 1847 there was a regular ferry service between Melide and Bissone (Those communes are on the Gotthard route). The anchor in the emblem refers to that time. In 1854 the bridge-dam was expanded to a dam, which was widened in 1874 for the construction of the
railway. In 1968 the motorway A2 was added, so that today three traffic lines cross this passage over the Lake Lugano
(a.k.a. Ceresio).
Martin Karner