Massino Visconti is a municipality

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

 in the Province of Novara

Province of Novara

Novara is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.It has an area of 1,339 km², and a total population of 365.156 . There are 88 communes in the province.-External links:*...

, in the Italian

Italy

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 region of Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, located about 110 km northeast of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and about 40 km north of Novara

Novara

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...

. As of 31 December 2004 it had a population of 1106 and an area of 6.8 km².

Massino Visconti is bordered by the municipalities of Armeno

Armeno

Armeno is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km northwest of Novara...

, Brovello-Carpugnino

Brovello-Carpugnino

Brovello-Carpugnino is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 14 km southwest of Verbania...

, Lesa

Lesa

Lesa is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Novara...

 and Nebbiuno

Nebbiuno

Nebbiuno is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km north of Novara. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,709 and an area of 8.2 km².Nebbiuno borders the following municipalities:...

.

Historically, Massino got the suffix "Visconti" from the House of Visconti of Milan, an important noble family in medieval Italy, who were initially the lords of Massino.