Mezzovico-Vira is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

A recently discovered stele with inscriptions in northern Etruscan suggests that the area around Mezzovico-Vira was already settled in the pre-Roman era.

An archaeological investigation under the parish church of S. Abbondio in 1990, discovered Roman urn graves.

In the Middle Ages it belonged to the valley community of Carvina, which included the villages of the upper north end of Vedeggio.

The modern municipality of Mezzovico-Vira is first mentioned in 1335 as Medio Vico and Vira.

The parish church of Mezzovico, S. Mamete goes back to a Roman era building which was expanded in the 12th, 15th and 16th centuries.

In the last decades of the 20th century; the motorway, the main road and the railway along with a number of buildings for industry and commerce were built in along the valley floor.

This development is due to the growth of the agglomeration of Lugano, which spread into the Vedeggio valley, as well as the proximity to the motorway and the Swiss Federal Railways station at Rivera.

Mezzovico-Vira has an area, as of 1997[update], of 10.21 square kilometers (3.94 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale argent a hemp plant vert fruited(?)

or and azure a crozieror issuant from base behind an escutcheon argent a cross gules.

The hemp (Italian: canapa) refers to the family Canepa, while the cross and shield are from the bishop Enrico Silvio (1556–1612).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Mezzovico-Vira is; 133 children or 11.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 128 teenagers or 11.0% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The Church of S. Mamete and Oratory of S. Ambrogio are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[15] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 733 registered voters in Mezzovico-Vira, of which 551 or 75.2% voted.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 800 or 85.3% were Roman Catholic, while 64 or 6.8% 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.