Italian immigration to Switzerland
Italian immigration to Switzerland (unrelated to the indigenous Italian-speaking population in Ticino and in the southern part of Grisons) is related to the Italian diaspora in Switzerland. Italian emigration to Switzerland took place mainly from the end of the 19th century.
Construction workers, mostly Italian, at the Gotthard Tunnel in Airolo around 1880. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 295,000 (by birth) c. 530,000 (by ancestry, corresponding to about 7% of the total Swiss population) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Heavily concentrated in Bern, Zürich, Basel, Lugano, Lausanne | |
| Languages | |
| Swiss Italian · Swiss French · Swiss German · Romansh · Italian and Italian dialects | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism (74%) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Italians, Italian Belgians, Italian Britons, Italian Finns, Italian French, Italian Germans, Italian Romanians, Italian Spaniards, Italian Swedes, Corfiot Italians, Genoese in Gibraltar, Italians of Crimea, Italians of Odesa |
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