Mogno

Mogno is situated near the top of Val Lavizzara, a valley through which the upper Maggia river flows.

Today it is no longer inhabited all year round and serves only as a holiday village.

[1] Mogno is most noted for its modern marble-and-granite Church of San Giovanni Battista, designed by Ticinese architect Mario Botta.

The original church of San Giovanni Battista Decollato was built in 1626 and was initially a chapel of ease of the parish of Peccia.

[citation needed] Above Mogno is Alp Vaccariscio, famous for its high-altitude granite water pipe to irrigate the meadows, restored in 1998.