Muggio

According to popular tradition the village’s name originated from the dialect “mücc” (“mucchio” or “pile”), a reference to the agglomeration of houses in the heart of the village.

In the last century, Muggio’s population was drastically reduced by two-thirds, from 652 inhabitants in 1900 to 206 in 2000. In the same period, there were less than a dozen inhabitants of Roncapiano, where the cantonal road peters out into a footpath and mule track. The peculiarities of Muggio – like the other old villages that formed the Municipality of Breggia in 2009 – have earned it an entry in ISOS, the Federal Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites and since 2016 it is part of the association of the most beautiful Villages in Switzerland.