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{{Infobox Swiss town
 | subject_name = Locarno
 | image_photo  = Locarno porto - panoramio.jpg
 | image_caption  = 
 | municipality_type = town
 | imagepath_flag = CHE Locarno Flag.svg
 | imagepath_coa = CHE Locarno COA.svg|pixel_coa=
 | canton = Ticino
 | iso-code-region = CH-TI
 | district = [[Locarno (district)|Locarno]]
 |coordinates = {{coord|46|10|N|8|48|E|display=inline,title}}
 | postal_code = 6600
 | municipality_code = 5113
 | area = 24.61
 | elevation = 200  |elevation_description=
 | population = 15,968
 |populationof=
 |popofyear=
 | website = locarno.ch
 | mayor = Nicola Pini
 |mayor_asof=December 2024
 |mayor_party=FDP.The Liberals
 | mayor_title = Sindaco
 |list_of_mayors= List of mayors of Locarno
 | executive_name = Municipio
 | executive_number_of_members = 7
 | parliament_name = Consiglio comunale 
 | parliament_number_of_members = 40
 | places = Solduno, Monte della Trinità, Brè sopra Locarno,<ref>Swisstopo.ch https://s.geo.admin.ch/9d66965700. The official name is Brè sopra Locarno but is not unusual to hear Monte Brè sopra Locarno</ref> Ponte Brolla, Riazzino (Piano di Magadino), Gerra Piano (Piano di Magadino)
 | demonym = {{langx|it|Locarnesi}}
 | neighboring_municipalities= [[Ascona]], [[Avegno, Switzerland|Avegno]], [[Cadenazzo]], [[Cugnasco]], [[Gerra (Verzasca)]], [[Gambarogno]], [[Gordola]], [[Lavertezzo]], [[Losone]], [[Minusio]], [[Muralto]], [[Orselina]], [[Tegna, Switzerland|Tegna]], [[Tenero-Contra]]
 | twintowns =*{{flagicon|GEO}} [[Gagra]], Georgia
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Karlovy Vary]], Czech Republic
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Lompoc, California|Lompoc]], United States
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Montecatini Terme]], Italy
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Urbino]], Italy
|}}

'''Locarno''' ({{IPA|it|loˈkarno|lang}}; {{IPA|de|loˈkaʁno|lang|De-Locarno.ogg}}; [[Ticinese dialect|Ticinese]]: {{lang|lmo|Locarno}} {{IPA|lmo|loˈkɑːrno|}}; formerly in {{langx|de|Luggarus}} {{IPA|de|luˈɡaːrʊs|}}) is a southern [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[List of towns in Switzerland|town]] and [[Municipalities of Switzerland|municipality]] in the district [[Locarno (district)|Locarno]] (of which it is the capital), located on the northern shore of [[Lake Maggiore]] at its northeastern tip in the [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Ticino]] at the southern foot of the [[Swiss Alps]]. It has a population of about 16,000 (proper), and about 56,000 for the agglomeration of the same name including [[Ascona]] besides other municipalities.<ref>{{cite web |last=Swiss Federal Statistical Office |title=Bilanz der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung (Total) nach Bezirken und Gemeinden |format=XLS |year=2015 |location=Wabern, Switzerland |language=de, fr |url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/02/blank/key/raeumliche_verteilung/kantone__gemeinden.html |access-date=2016-10-09}}</ref>

The town of Locarno is located on the northeastern part of the river [[Maggia (river)|Maggia]]'s delta; across the river lies the town of [[Ascona]] on the southwestern part of the delta.

Locarno is the 74th largest city in Switzerland by population{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}} and the third largest in the Ticino canton, after [[Lugano]] and [[Bellinzona]].

The official language of Locarno is [[Italian language|Italian]].

The town is known for hosting the [[Locarno International Film Festival]] which takes place every year in August and involves open-air screenings at the main square, the Piazza Grande. It is also known for the [[Locarno Treaties]], a series of European territorial agreements negotiated here in October 1925.