This village gives its name to the valley of the same name, the southernmost valley in Switzerland. Nature here is very lush and the greenery very intense. Muggio’s cobbled lanes are very pleasant to walk along and the late Baroque church of San Lorenzo is a little gem.

The village of Muggio occupies a terminal basin of the valley of the same name and included the hamlets of Scudellate, Roncapiano and Muggiasca. According to popular tradition, the name of the village derives from the dialect word ‘mücc’ (‘heap’), referring to the appearance of the agglomeration of houses forming the core of the village. From a religious point of view, the community of Muggio was for a long time spiritually linked to Cabbio and then formed a vice-parish (from 1673) dependent on the matrix of Balerna. It was only during the 19th century that Muggio became emancipated from the parish church of Balerna with the elevation to parish church status of the Church of San Lorenzo, documented since 1578 but rebuilt and restored several times. The village’s economy was based on agriculture (a corncob and a bunch of grapes also appear on the municipal coat of arms) and sheep-farming, which involved the ‘rudada’, a common custodial system, and the ‘trasa’, or rough grazing. In the hamlet of Cabbio, the Ethnographic Museum of the Muggio Valley was founded in 1980. Its seat was inaugurated in 2003 in the premises of Casa Cantoni, an imposing 17th century building and former home of the Cantoni family.