Vico Morcote is a municipality in the district of in the Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Located near Lake Lugano and situated roughly one kilometer uphill from the larger village of Morcote, Vico Morcote's distance from both Morcote and Lugano (10km east) have left it in a near preserved state as a small hillside village typical of the area. The estimated population of the village is fewer than 300 residents. Vico Morcote contains a number of small hotels and restaurants. It is also home to a villa run by the International Institute of Architecture (I2A), the European branch of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.