Canobbio is a municipality in the circolo Vezia of the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Roman era inscription and cremation graves from the 3rd Century AD indicate that there was an earlier settlement near the modern village.

It belonged to the Abbey of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia.

The Humiliati monastery of S. Caterina in Lugano also owned land in Canobbio.

The younger mill was built in 1848, for the De Marchi family of Astano and later the Bernasconi from Chiasso.

In 1870 the Baron Paul von Dervies, a Russian banker and railroad magnate built the Castello di Trevano as a temple to music, in the vicinity of Canobbio, with a private orchestra of 52 players.

[3] Canobbio is home to a district school and a popular shopping center.

[3] Canobbio has an area, as of 1997[update], of 1.3 square kilometers (0.50 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a hemp plant argent seeded or.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (88.6%), with German being second most common (4.3%) and French being third (1.3%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Canobbio is; 189 children or 9.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 199 teenagers or 10.4% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following timeline:[3] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 39.41% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 676 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.9%.

[13] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 1,211 registered voters in Canobbio, of which 860 or 71.0% voted.

[8] There were 889 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.3% of the workforce.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,513 or 82.9% were Roman Catholic, while 99 or 5.4% 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 professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields.

These libraries include; the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI and the Dipartimento Ambiente Costruzioni e Design (DACD).