Bissone
Bissone is a municipality in the district of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Bissone has about 879 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 879 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bissone TI”
- Postal code: 6816
- Neighbors: Campione d’Italia
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Rocco Oratory and San Carpoforo Parish Church.
Melide causeway
Bridge
Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Melide causeway crosses across Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, connecting the communities of Melide and Bissone, and provides the only domestic land connection between the southern section of Ticino, around Mendrisio and Chiasso, and the rest of Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melide and Arogno.
Melide
Village
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lugano is a lakeside city in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of southern Switzerland, and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy.
Arogno
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arogno is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino, located south of Lake Lugano in the southernmost tip of Switzerland.
Campione d’Italia
Photo: Oleg Andriychuk, CC BY 3.0.
Campione d'Italia is a comune of the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy. Located on the shores of Lake Lugano, it is an enclave surrounded by the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Bissone
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Bissone, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.95065° or 45° 57′ 2″ northLongitude
8.96518° or 8° 57′ 55″ eastPopulation
879Elevation
301 metres (988 feet)Open location code
8FQCXX28+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 32457650OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2661486Wikidata ID
Q69269
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Bissone” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Bissone”
- Armenian: “Բիսոն”
- Asturian: “Bissone”
- Basque: “Bissone”
- Belarusian: “Бісонэ”
- Breton: “Bissone”
- Catalan: “Bissone”
- Cebuano: “Bissone (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Bissone”
- Chinese: “比索內”
- Chinese: “比索内”
- Czech: “Bissone”
- Dutch: “Bissone”
- Esperanto: “Bissone”
- Finnish: “Bissone”
- French: “Bissone”
- German: “Bissone”
- German: “Byssen”
- Hebrew: “ביזונה”
- Hungarian: “Bissone”
- Irish: “Bissone”
- Italian: “Bissone”
- Japanese: “ビッソーネ”
- Latin: “Blixunum”
- Latin: “Blixunus”
- Lombard: “Bisson”
- Lombard: “Bissone”
- Lombard: “Bissun”
- Malay: “Bissone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bissone”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bissone”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bissone”
- Polish: “Bissone”
- Portuguese: “Bissone”
- Romanian: “Bissone”
- Romansh: “Bissone”
- Russian: “Биссоне”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bissone”
- Slovenian: “Bissone”
- Spanish: “Bissone”
- Swedish: “Bissone”
- Swiss German: “Bissone”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bissone”
- Turkish: “Bissone”
- Ukrainian: “Біссоне”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bissone”
- Venetian: “Bissone”
- Volapük: “Bissone”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bissone”
- Welsh: “Bissone”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Casa comunale and Lido Comunale Bissone.
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