Morcote

Also known as Morcote TI

Morcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Morcote
Swiss town.image_photo: Morcote Aerial.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Morcote COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Morcote Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Ticino
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-TI
Swiss town.district: Lugano
Swiss town.postal_code: 6922
Swiss town.municipality_code: 5203
Swiss town.area: 2.8
Swiss town.elevation: 272
Swiss town.population: 755
Swiss town.populationof: December 2007
Swiss town.popofyear: 2007
Swiss town.website: www.morcote.ch
Swiss town.mayor: Giacomo Caratti
Swiss town.mayor_title: Sindaco

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of: Municipality of Switzerland
Official name: Morcote
Country: Switzerland
Official language: Italian
Population: 713
Area: 2.79
Elevation: 285
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Lake Lugano
Shares border with: Brusimpiano
Official website: www.morcote.ch
Image: Morcote.jpg
Dialing code: 091
Licence plate code: TI

Show 6 more facts

Commons category: Morcote
postal code: 6922
twinned administrative body: Viarmes
Commons gallery: Morcote
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/5203
P8168: Thurisind

Sources (11)

via Wikidata · CC0

~15 min read

Encyclopedic overview

13 sections

Contents

History
Geography
Coat of arms
Heritage sites of national significance
Sites
Demographics
Notable people
Politics
Economy
Religion
Education
References
External links

Morcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano.

==History== right|thumb|upright|Morcote's lakefront. The town's development and history are connected to the lake thumb|Aerial view from 100 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1929)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morcote” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.