Cevio is the capital of the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

In 2006 Cevio grew by incorporating the villages of Bignasco and Cavergno, previously municipalities in their own right.

Chancellor Giovan Angelo Franzoni, who was in power for 36 years, built himself a Patrician palazzo outside the center of Cevio.

In 1962, the Museo di Valmaggia was founded to preserve and show the material heritage of the valley.

After acquisition and restoration of the Palazzo Franzoni, the first regional ethnographic museum of the canton of Ticino was opened in 1963 there.

Cevio has an area, as of 1997[update], of 151.42 square kilometers (58.46 sq mi).

Particularly interesting is the hamlet Boschetto (almost abandoned), which has preserved the structure of the rural seventeenth-century village intact.

[8] Cevio lies 23 km (14 mi) northwest of Locarno in the upper Vallemaggia.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Aure St. maurice riding a horse argent holding a flag gules a cross argent and in base three fleurs de li or.

[12] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian language (387 or 77.9%), with German being second most common (54 or 10.9%) and Spanish being third (21 or 4.2%).

The largest non-Swiss groups are from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sri Lanka.

The unusually high number of non-Swiss in the municipality is due to the abundance of jobs in the quarries and hospital.

[11] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Cevio is; 94 children or 7.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 127 teenagers or 10.4% are between 10 and 19.

[12] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][16] The Respini-Moretti House, the Case Franzoni and the Museo di Valmaggia, the Church of S. Maria del Ponte alla Rovana, the Parish Church of S. Maria Assunta e S. Giovanni with Ossuary and Portico, and the Pretorio are all listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The villages of Bignasco, Boschetto, Cevio/Rovana and the Val Bavona are all part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[18] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 847 registered voters in Cevio, of which 575 or 67.9% voted.

[12] There were 209 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 28 or 9.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 15 or 5.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 59 or 20.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 9 or 3.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 10 or 3.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 41 or 14.3% were in education and 96 or 33.6% were in health care.

[22] From the 2000 census[update], 389 or 78.3% were Roman Catholic, while 36 or 7.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The wettest month was September during which time Cevio received an average of 215 mm (8.5 in) of rain or snow.

The month with the most days of precipitation was May, with an average of 13, but with only 207 mm (8.1 in) of rain or snow.

The driest month of the year was February with an average of 65 mm (2.6 in) of precipitation over 5.8 days.

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.