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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Districts of Lugano, People from Lugano, HC Lugano, Michael Casanova, Gandria, Museo delle Culture, FC Lugano, Mario Gavranovi, Loris Kessel, Domenico Reina, Leonardo Conti, Lugano Airport, Franco Ambrosetti, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano, Rubens Bertogliati, Mauro Gianetti, Mario Comensoli, Carlo Polli, Lugano Cathedral, Pietro Bettelini, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, Brothers Bernardacci, Bre-Aldesago, Breganzona, Davesco-Soragno, Viganello, Cureggia, Giovanni Battista Discepoli, Barbengo, Claudio Polledri, Pregassona, Villa Luganese, Carabbia, Giacomo Zanetti, Pambio Noranco, Pazzallo, Luca Antonio Colomba, 18th Chess Olympiad, Raffaele Sannitz, Castagnola, Giorgio Giudici, Biogno, Cassarate, Caprino, Switzerland, List of mayors of Lugano. Excerpt: Lugano (Lombard: ) is a city of 55,060 inhabitants (as of December 2009) in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The city lies on Lake Lugano, and its warm summers and the fact that in recent years it has attracted an ever growing number of celebrities, entertainers and successful athletes have given it the nickname of the "Monte Carlo of Switzerland." It is the 9th largest city of Switzerland by population. The origin of the name is possibly the Latin word Lucus, meaning wood or sacred wood, or Gaulish locovanno "lake dweller." The shores of Lake Lugano have been inhabited since the Stone Age. Within the modern city limits (Breganzona, Castagnola, Davesco and Gandria) a number of ground stones or quern-stones have been found. In the area surrounding Lugano, items from the Copper Age and the Iron Age have been found. There are Etruscan monuments at Davesco-Soragno (5th to 2nd century BC), Pregassona (3rd to 2nd century BC), and Vig...
