Vezia

Geschichte

Vezia is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.GeographyVezia has an area, of 1.39km2. Of this area, 0.68km2 or 48.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.39km2 or 28.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.68km2 or 48.9% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 26.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 15.1%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 23.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.5% is used for growing crops, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops and 26.6% is used for alpine pastures.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a rose azure barbed and on a stalk with two yet branches leaved vert and in the chief gules a cross of the first.DemographicsVezia has a population of., 25.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 18.8%.Most of the population speaks Italian (85.5%), with German being second most common (6.1%) and French being third (1.8%). Of the Swiss national languages, 96 speak German, 29 people speak French, 1,347 people speak Italian, and 3 people speak Romansh. The remainder (100 people) speak another language.