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Bissone
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Also known as Bissone TI

Bissone is a municipality in the district of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Bissone
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
BissoneStrasse.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption
Bissone village
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Bissone COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Bissone Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Ticino
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-TI
Swiss town.district
Lugano
Swiss town.postal_code
6816
Swiss town.municipality_code
5154
Swiss town.area
1.82
Swiss town.elevation
273
Swiss town.population
781
Swiss town.populationof
December 2004
Swiss town.popofyear
2004
Swiss town.website
www.bissone.ch
Swiss town.mayor
Andrea Incerti (from 2016)

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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Heritage sites of national significance
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Transport
  • Religion
  • Education
  • People
  • References

Bissone is a municipality in the district of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

==History== Bissone is first mentioned in 735 and again in 854 as Blixuni. In German it was known as Byssen, though that name is no longer used.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bissone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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