page_title: Mendrisio
section_title: Heritage sites of national significance
hierarchical_section_title: Mendrisio / Heritage sites of national significance
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Rancate
context_page_description: Mendrisio is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
  Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian-speaking Switzerland.
  The municipality was boosted in size on 4 April 2004 when it incorporated the former municipality of Salorino. On 5 April 2009 it incorporated the former municipalities of Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Rancate and Tremona. On 14 April 2013 the former municipalities of Besazio, Ligornetto and Meride merged into the municipality of Mendrisio.
  Mendrisio is served by Mendrisio railway station.
context_section_description: Mendrisio is home to a number of Swiss heritage sites of national significance.  The list includes three churches; the Church of S. Sisinio alla Torre, the Church of S. Martino, and the complex of S. Giovanni, which includes a convent, the Church of S. Giovanni and the Oratory of S. Maria.  There are six stately houses or palaces on the list; the Croci House, the Dei Pagani Tre Buchi House, Palazzo Pollini, Palazzo Torriani, Villa Argentina and the Villa and mosaics of S. Maria in Borgo.  The rest of the list consists of the Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst or Giovanni Züst Art Gallery and the Tremona archeological site.  The 2013 mergers added the Museo Vela from Ligornetto and the Church of S. Silvestro from Meride.  The villages of Ligornetto and Meride were added to the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
caption: Rancate village
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