History

In the 1751 census 400 inhabitants were recorded in Cernobbio, it had its own automomous representation but was still bound to the city of Como and the comune of the ‘Corpi Santi’.

The community was ruled by a court summoned by the consul. The municipality was subject to the laws of the high official (‘Podestà’) of Como. Cernobbio became part of the civil territory of the city of Como and the state of Milan with the “Reform of the Government of Como city and county”.

In 1791, the ‘pieve di Zezio superiore’, of which the municipality of Cernobbio belonged, was included in the second district census of the province of Como.
In 1797 Cernobbio became part of the administrative Deparment of Lario “ Dipartimento del Lario ”, then with the law of 1799 it was handed over to the “ Dipartimento dell’Olona ”, only to return to the “ Dipartimento of Lario ” once again in 1801.

With the 1861 constitution under the Kingdom of Italy, the municipality was governed by a mayor, a town council and a local authority. The population was around 830 inhabitants.

In 1926, after already being included in the district of the Province of Como, the municipality was managed by a ‘podestà’. Shortly afterwards the comunes of Piazza Santo Stefano and Rovenna became part of the Comune of Cernobbio.

In this period the population grew to nearly 5500 inhabitants in 1931. A long time after the Second World War, in 1971 the Comune of Cernobbio reached a surface area of 1,172 hectares.

Only recently, in 2005, the President of the Republic granted the Comune of Cernobbio the title of ‘City’.