7 Best Performing Arts Venues in Ticino, Switzerland

Held since 1946, the festival screens prestigious international movies every August on the Piazza Grande.

At the end of August, this festival livens up the Piazza della Riforma.

Early July brings this jazz and world music festival to the Piazza della Riforma.

This festival seeks out performers a cut above the standard jazz and swing groups. It attracts an amazing array of international performers to its open-air bandstands for one week in June, as well as winter concerts in various locations hosted by the Jazz Cat Club.

This series of evening concerts by international pop stars is held the second week of July.

The Settimane Musicali bring in orchestras, chamber groups, and top-ranking soloists to Ascona and Locarno. Events run from late August to mid-October.

Theatrical companies are hosted here September through May.