Morcote
Sign in to saveMorcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Morcote
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Morcote Aerial.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Morcote COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Morcote Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Ticino
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-TI
- Swiss town.district
- Lugano
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6922
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 5203
- Swiss town.area
- 2.8
- Swiss town.elevation
- 272
- Swiss town.population
- 755
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2007
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2007
- Swiss town.website
- www.morcote.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Giacomo Caratti
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Sindaco
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Morcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano.
==History== right|thumb|upright|Morcote's lakefront. The town's development and history are connected to the lake thumb|Aerial view from 100 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1929)