Viggiù

Viggiù is a comune in the in the region , located about 50 kilometres northwest of and about 8 kilometres northeast of , on the border with Switzerland.
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  • Type: Village with 4,970 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: 012139”, “Viggiu”, and “Viggiù (Italy)

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poncione d’Arzo and Civic Museum of Fossils of Besano.

Peak
The Poncione d'Arzo is a mountain of the Lugano Prealps, located on the border between and , about 250 meters east of Monte Pravello. It lies south of , on the group culminating at .

Museum
The , located in , , specializes in palaeontology and houses a collection of fossils that were found nearby.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltrio and Stabio.

Village
is a comune in the in the region , located about 50 kilometres northwest of and about 9 kilometres northeast of , on the border with Switzerland.

Village
is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of in . is situated 3½ km southeast of Viggiù.

Town
is a town and comune in , in north-western , 60 kilometres north of , in the . It had a population, in 2021, of c. 10,287. is situated 6 km southwest of Viggiù.

Viggiù

Latitude
45.8722° or 45° 52′ 20″ north
Longitude
8.9059° or 8° 54′ 21″ east
Population
4,970
Elevation
481 metres (1,578 feet)
Open location code
8FQCVWC4+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62517305
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6536492
Wiki­data ID
Q41041
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Viggiù” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: فيجيو
  • Armenian: Վիջու
  • Basque: Viggiù
  • Belarusian: Віджу
  • Breton: Viggiù
  • Bulgarian: Виджу
  • Catalan: Viggiù
  • Cebuano: Viggiù
  • Chechen: Виджу
  • Chinese: Viggiù
  • Chinese: 维朱
  • Czech: Viggiù (Italy)
  • Dutch: Viggiu
  • Dutch: Viggiù
  • Esperanto: Viggiu
  • Esperanto: Viggiù
  • French: Viggiu
  • French: Viggiù
  • Georgian: ვიჯუ
  • German: Viggiù (Italy)
  • German: Viggiu
  • German: Viggiù
  • Greek: Βιτζού
  • Hungarian: Viggiù
  • Indonesian: Viggiù
  • Interlingua: Viggiù
  • Irish: Viggiù
  • Italian: Comune di Viggiù
  • Italian: Viggiù
  • Japanese: ヴィッジュ
  • Kazakh: Виджу
  • Kurdish: Viggiù
  • Ladin: Viggiù
  • Latin: Vicluvium
  • Ligurian: Viggiù
  • Lombard: Viggiù
  • Lombard: Vigiü
  • Lombard: Vigiuu
  • Lombard: Vigiüü
  • Malay: Viggiù
  • Min Nan Chinese: Viggiù
  • Neapolitan: Viggiù
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Viggiù
  • Occitan (post 1500): Viggiù
  • Persian: ویجیو
  • Piemontese: Viggiù
  • Polish: Viggiu
  • Polish: Viggiù
  • Portuguese: Viggiù
  • Romanian: Viggiù
  • Russian: Виджу
  • Scots: Viggiù
  • Serbian: Viggiù
  • Serbian: Виђу
  • Serbo-Croatian: Viggiù, Varese
  • Serbo-Croatian: Viggiù
  • Sicilian: Viggiù
  • South Azerbaijani: ویجیو
  • Spanish: Viggiu
  • Spanish: Viggiù
  • Swedish: Viggiu
  • Swedish: Viggiù
  • Tagalog: Viggiù
  • Tatar: Виджу
  • Turkish: Viggiù
  • Ukrainian: Віджу
  • Uzbek: Viggiù
  • Uzbek: Viju
  • Uzbek: Вижу
  • Venetian: Viggiù
  • Vietnamese: Viggiù
  • Volapük: Viggiù
  • Waray (Philippines): Viggiù
  • Viggiù

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