Swiss Italians of Australia

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Swiss Italians of Australia are the Italian-speaking Swiss who settled in Australia during the 1850s and 1860s and their descendants who identified as such.

The Swiss immigrants were from the canton of Ticino and the southern part of Graubünden. Many initially settled in the area around Daylesford, Victoria. A community centred around the Savoia (Spring Creek) Hotel and the Macaroni Factory. The Savoia is named after the royal family of unified Italy. An Italian reading library was located at the hotel and pasta was made opposite in Lucini's Macaroni Factory which was also home to the Democratic Club. Lucini's moved from Lonsdale Street, Melbourne in 1865, where they had set up as the first pasta factory in Australia in 1864. Vanzetta's bakery supplied bread to the community and Crippa, Perini, and the Gervasoni's (Yandoit Creek) produced wine.

Their influence remains in the township of Hepburn Springs in the names of residents, the names of Locarno Springs, Savoia Hotel, Parma House and buildings, Perinis and Bellinzona. The Swiss Italian Festa, first held in 1993, celebrates the history, culture and lifestyle of Swiss and Italian settlers.^[1] In 2007, the Melbourne Immigration Museum featured a display entitled Wine Water and Stone reflecting Swiss and Italian heritage.

An associated delicacy is bullboar, a sausage made from beef, pork, garlic, and spices. In 2005 Daylesford Secondary College came in second place in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Young Gourmets by making bullboars from the Gervasoni and Sartori recipes.