Arbedo-Castione is a municipality in the district of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Arbedo-Castione has an area, as of 1997[update], of 21.28 square kilometers (8.22 sq mi).

[3] The municipality is located in the Bellinzona district on the left bank of the Moesa river near the confluence with the Tessin river, south of Piz de Molinera.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Lion passant Argent holding a Palm Branch Vert between three Mullets Or on a Bridge of the last in its Arch three barrulets engrailed.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian(88.8%), with German being second most common ( 3.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2.4%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Arbedo-Castione is; 387 children or 9.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 411 teenagers or 9.8% are between 10 and 19.

[7] The historical population is given in the following table:[12] The Church of S. Paolo detta Chiesa Rossa is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 30.47% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,080 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.6%.

[14] In the 2007[update] Ticino Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 2,312 registered voters in Arbedo-Castione, of which 1,584 or 68.5% voted.

[7] There were 1,767 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.5% of the workforce.

[17] From the 2000 census[update], 2,961 or 79.4% were Roman Catholic, while 156 or 4.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.

In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).

The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields.