Lumino

Lumino
Lumino village
Coat of arms
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Location of Lumino
Coordinates: 46°14′N 9°04′E / 46.233°N 9.067°E / 46.233; 9.067Coordinates: 46°14′N 9°04′E / 46.233°N 9.067°E / 46.233; 9.067
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Ticino
District	Bellinzona
Government
• Mayor	Sindaco
Area
• Total	9.95 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Elevation	270 m (890 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	1,416
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Postal code	6533
SFOS number	5010
Surrounded by	Arbedo-Castione, Claro, Roveredo (GR), San Vittore (GR)
Website	www.lumino.ch SFSO statistics

Lumino is a municipality in the district of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Lumino is first mentioned in 1168 as locus Lugomini. In German it used to be known as Lugmin. The convenient location at the entrance to the Val Mesolcina and the ancient fortifications in the neighborhood indicate that there was an early settlement. The assets of the Bishop of Como in Lumino were given to Capitanei of Locarno in the 12th Century. It is listed as part of the County of Bellinzona in 1335. By 1242 it was already part of a community with Castione, which was dissolved in 1818. Several properties and the tithe belonged to the parish church of Bellinzona. The Church of St. Mamette was first mentioned in 1237 and became a parish church before 1591. The border between Lumino and the Graubünden village of San Vittore was finalized, after centuries of dispute, in 1776. During construction of the new roadway over the San Bernardino Pass in 1818, the cantonal authorities forbade the inhabitants of Lumino from making improvements on the road between the Moesa bridge and the border with Graubünden. In the last decades of the 20th Century, the construction of many new houses (in 2000, 73% of the working population worked outside the municipality) and the resettlement of a small but thriving industry changed the village from a small farming village.

Lumino has an area, as of 1997^[update], of 9.95 square kilometers (3.84 sq mi). Of this area, 1 km² (0.39 sq mi) or 10.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.59 km² (2.93 sq mi) or 76.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.53 km² (0.20 sq mi) or 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.15 km² (37 acres) or 1.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.41 km² (0.16 sq mi) or 4.1% is unproductive land.