Sant'Antonino is a municipality in the district of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

During the Middle Ages, the Church of S. Pietro in Bellinzona (early 13th century), the hospital in Contone (1337) and the cathedral of Como (1397) all owned land in Sant'Antonino.

Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, it grew into a residential community, due to it close proximity to Bellinzona.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the municipality was home to a growing number of commercial and industrial enterprises.

[3] Sant'Antonino has an area, as of 1997[update], of 6.59 square kilometers (2.54 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Bellinzona district, in Magadino river valley along the northern slope of the Monte Ceneri.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (86.7%), with German being second most common (5.6%) and Portuguese being third (2.5%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Sant'Antonino is; 217 children or 9.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 265 teenagers or 11.7% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 37.61% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 552 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.5%.

[14] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 1,234 registered voters in Sant'Antonino, of which 877 or 71.1% voted.

[8] There were 1,028 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.8% of the workforce.

[17] From the 2000 census[update], 1,679 or 81.3% were Roman Catholic, while 119 or 5.8% 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 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.