Ticino
Lugano District
Melide

Melide

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  • Type: Village with 1,740 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Melide TI” and “Melide, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 6815
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Melide railway station and Parish church of Saints Cyricus and Julitta.

Railway station
Photo: Arbalete, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the canton of Ticino and the municipality of Melide. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between and .

Church
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bridge
Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The crosses across in the , connecting the communities of Melide and , and provides the only domestic land connection between the southern section of Ticino, around and , and the rest of Switzerland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carona and Bissone.

Village
Photo: Berger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of in . On 14 April 2013 the former municipalities of , , , , , and merged into the municipality of .

Village
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the district of Lugano, in the canton of in .

Village
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is a quarter of the city of , . was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Lugano in 2008.

Melide

Latitude
45.95444° or 45° 57′ 16″ north
Longitude
8.94762° or 8° 56′ 51″ east
Population
1,740
Elevation
282 metres (925 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH JJO
Open location code
8FQCXW3X+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32457646
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659692
Wiki­data ID
Q69981
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Melide” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Melide”
  • Armenian: “Մելիդե”
  • Basque: “Melide”
  • Belarusian: “Мэлідэ”
  • Breton: “Melide”
  • Catalan: “Melide”
  • Cebuano: “Melide (munisipyo sa Swisa, Ticino, Lugano District, lat 45,96, long 8,94)”
  • Cebuano: “Melide”
  • Chinese: “梅利德”
  • Czech: “Melide”
  • Dutch: “Melide”
  • Esperanto: “Melide TI”
  • Finnish: “Melide”
  • French: “Melide”
  • Georgian: “მელიდე”
  • German: “Melide TI”
  • German: “Melide”
  • Hebrew: “מלידה”
  • Hungarian: “Melide”
  • Irish: “Melide”
  • Italian: “Melide”
  • Japanese: “メリデ (スイス)”
  • Lombard: “Melì”
  • Lombard: “Melide”
  • Lombard: “Melii”
  • Lombard: “Milii”
  • Malay: “Melide, Switzerland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melide i Sveits”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melide TI”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Melide”
  • Polish: “Melide (Szwajcaria)”
  • Polish: “Melide”
  • Portuguese: “Melide”
  • Romansh: “Melide”
  • Russian: “Мелиде”
  • Slovak: “Melide”
  • Slovenian: “Melide”
  • Spanish: “Melide”
  • Swedish: “Melide, Ticino”
  • Swedish: “Melide”
  • Swiss German: “Melide TI”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Melide TI”
  • Turkish: “Melide”
  • Ukrainian: “Меліде”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Melide”
  • Venetian: “Melide”
  • Volapük: “Melide”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melide, Swiza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melide”
  • Welsh: “Melide”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Piazza Domenico Fontana and Parco Tosi.

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