Melano
Melano is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 10 April 2022, the former municipalities of Maroggia, Melano and Rovio merged to form the new municipality of Val Mara.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,360 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Val Mara, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Melano TI”
- Postal code: 6818
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sant’Andrea Parish Church and Maroggia-Melano railway station.
Maroggia-Melano railway station
Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maroggia-Melano railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The station is located on the border between the municipalities of Maroggia and Melano, and serves both.
Bellavista railway station
Railway station
Photo: trams aux fils., CC BY 2.0.
Bellavista is a railway station on the Monte Generoso railway, a rack railway that connects Capolago with the summit of Monte Generoso in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rovio and Maroggia.
Rovio
Village
Photo: Weekender73, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rovio is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Traditionally Rovio has been an agricultural community, raising livestock and growing vines, but today many of its houses are occupied by commuters, largely travelling into the city of Lugano.
Maroggia
Village
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maroggia is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 10 April 2022, the former municipalities of Maroggia, Melano and Rovio merged to form the new municipality of Val Mara.
Capolago
Village
Photo: Snapshots Of The Past, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Capolago is a village situated at the south-eastern extremity of Lake Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Originally a municipality in its own right, Capolago is now a quarter of the municipality of Mendrisio, itself part of the district of Mendrisio.
Melano
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Val Mara, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.92159° or 45° 55′ 18″ northLongitude
8.98603° or 8° 59′ 10″ eastPopulation
1,360Elevation
285 metres (935 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH MLOOpen location code
8FQCWXCP+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1377027354OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Melano” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Melano”
- Basque: “Melano”
- Breton: “Melano”
- Catalan: “Melano”
- Cebuano: “Melano (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Melano”
- Chinese: “梅拉诺”
- Chinese: “梅拉諾”
- Czech: “Melano”
- Danish: “Melano”
- Dutch: “Melano”
- Esperanto: “Melano”
- French: “Melano”
- German: “Melano TI”
- German: “Melano”
- Hungarian: “Melano”
- Irish: “Melano”
- Italian: “Melano”
- Latin: “Mellanum”
- Latin: “Mellanus”
- Lombard: “Melan”
- Lombard: “Melano”
- Malay: “Melano”
- Neapolitan: “Melano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melano”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Melano”
- Portuguese: “Melano”
- Romansh: “Melano”
- Russian: “Мелано”
- Spanish: “Melano”
- Swedish: “Melano”
- Swiss German: “Melano”
- Tosk Albanian: “Melano”
- Turkish: “Melano”
- Ukrainian: “Мелано”
- Upper Sorbian: “Melano”
- Venetian: “Melano”
- Volapük: “Melano”
- Waray (Philippines): “Melano”
- Welsh: “Melano”
- “Melano”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Melano”. Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 4.0.