Ticino
Lugano District
Lugano

Lugano

Lugano is a lakeside city in , the Italian-speaking part of southern , and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy.
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  • Type: Town with 67,000 residents
  • Description: city in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Lugano TI”
  • Postal code: 6900
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lugano Railway Station and Museum of Cultures.

Railway station
Photo: Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of the city of Lugano, in the . The station is on the Gotthard railway and is also the terminus of the Lugano Città–Stazione funicular.

Museum
Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museo delle Culture di Lugano was opened on 23 September 1989 with the aim of preserving most of the ethnic art collected by Serge Brignoni and coming in particular from the Far East, India, South-East Asia, Indonesia and Oceania.

Museum
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The Swiss–Italian Art Museum, commonly known as , MASILugano or MASI, is an art museum predominantly featuring 20th-century and contemporary art in Lugano, Switzerland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Campione d’Italia and Massagno.

Photo: Oleg Andriychuk, CC BY 3.0.
Campione d'Italia is a comune of the in the region of . Located on the shores of , it is an enclave surrounded by the canton of .

Village
is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of in .

Village
Photo: Pascalbrax, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the in . It lies on the shore of and, although administratively independent of the city of Lugano, it is surrounded on all other sides by that city.

Lugano

Latitude
46.005° or 46° 0′ 18″ north
Longitude
8.952° or 8° 57′ 7″ east
Population
67,000
Elevation
284 metres (932 feet)
IATA airport code
LUG
United Nations Location Code
CH LUG
Open location code
8FRC2X42+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1376769426
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659836
Wiki­data ID
Q7024
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lugano” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lugano”
  • Arabic: “لوغانو”
  • Armenian: “Լուգանո”
  • Asturian: “Lugano”
  • Balinese: “Lugano”
  • Basque: “Lugano”
  • Belarusian: “Лугана”
  • Belarusian: “Люгана”
  • Bosnian: “Lugano”
  • Breton: “Lugano”
  • Bulgarian: “Лугано”
  • Catalan: “Lugano”
  • Cebuano: “Lugano”
  • Chinese: “Lugano”
  • Chinese: “卢加诺”
  • Chinese: “盧加諾”
  • Chuvash: “Лугано”
  • Croatian: “Lugano”
  • Czech: “Lugano”
  • Danish: “Lugano”
  • Dutch: “Lugano”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوجانو”
  • Esperanto: “Lugano”
  • Estonian: “Lugano”
  • Extremaduran: “Lugano”
  • Finnish: “Lugano”
  • French: “Lugano”
  • Galician: “Lugano”
  • Georgian: “ლუგანო”
  • German: “Davesco”
  • German: “Lauis”
  • German: “Lügann”
  • German: “Lugano TI”
  • German: “Lugano”
  • German: “Soragno”
  • Greek: “Λουγκάνο”
  • Hebrew: “לוגאנו”
  • Hungarian: “Lugano”
  • Icelandic: “Lugano”
  • Ido: “Lugano”
  • Inari Sami: “Lugano”
  • Indonesian: “Lugano”
  • Interlingua: “Lugano”
  • Irish: “Lugano”
  • Italian: “Lügàn”
  • Italian: “Lugano”
  • Japanese: “Lugano TI”
  • Japanese: “ルガーノ”
  • Kazakh: “Лугано”
  • Korean: “루가노”
  • Kurdish: “Lugano”
  • Latin: “Luganum”
  • Latvian: “Lugāno”
  • Lithuanian: “Luganas”
  • Lombard: “Lugan”
  • Lombard: “Lügan”
  • Lombard: “Lügàn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lugano”
  • Malagasy: “Lugano”
  • Malay: “Lugano”
  • Malayalam: “ലുഗാനോ”
  • Marathi: “लुगानो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lugano”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუგანო”
  • Moksha: “Лугано”
  • Nauru: “Lugano”
  • Neapolitan: “Lugano”
  • Nepali: “लुगानो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lugano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lugano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lugano”
  • Norwegian: “Lugano”
  • Novial: “Lugano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lugano”
  • Ossetian: “Лугано”
  • Persian: “لوگانو”
  • Persian: “لوگنو”
  • Piemontese: “Lugan”
  • Polish: “Lugano”
  • Portuguese: “Lugano”
  • Romanian: “Lugano”
  • Romansh: “Ligiaun”
  • Romansh: “Lugano”
  • Russian: “Лугано”
  • Sardinian: “Luganu”
  • Scots: “Lugano”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lugano”
  • Serbian: “Лугано ТИ”
  • Serbian: “Лугано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lugano”
  • Sicilian: “Luganu”
  • Silesian: “Lugano”
  • Slovak: “Lugano”
  • Slovenian: “Lugano”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوگنو”
  • Spanish: “Lugano”
  • Swahili: “Lugano”
  • Swedish: “Lugano”
  • Swiss German: “Lugano”
  • Tatar: “Лугано”
  • Thai: “ลูกาโน”
  • Tibetan: “ལུ་ག་ནོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lugano”
  • Turkish: “Lugano”
  • Ukrainian: “Лугано”
  • Ukrainian: “Луґано”
  • Ukrainian: “Люґано”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lugano”
  • Urdu: “لوگانو”
  • Uzbek: “Lugano”
  • Venetian: “Ługàn”
  • Vietnamese: “Lugano”
  • Vlaams: “Lugano”
  • Volapük: “Lugano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lugano”
  • Welsh: “Lugano”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوگانو”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢加诺”
  • Yakut: “Лугано”
  • Yiddish: “לוגאנא”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧加諾”

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