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We’ve compiled the best of the best in Ticino - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This 2-km (1-mile) lakefront promenade is lined with highly pruned lime trees, funereal cypresses, and graceful palm trees stretching from the...Read More
Alpine drama and subtropical colors are wed in Brissago, yet another flowery lakefront resort at the lowest elevation in Switzerland. It's an...Read More
In the early 19th century, several buildings were torn down to enlarge the square, providing room for the present-day café tables. Commonly...Read More
With a breathtaking view of Locarno, the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Rock crowns the hilltop hamlet of Orselina. Pilgrims make the steep...Read More
The House of the Canons has a lovely interior courtyard. It's now a private house, so you'll have to just take a peek. ...Read More
Although this castle was first mentioned in a 6th-century document, the current structure dates from the 1200s. The massive exterior is dominated...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe most striking of Bellinzona's three castles has a core section that dates from the 13th century. The palace and courtyard, both from the...Read More
This massive and forbidding fieldstone construction's almost complete absence of curves is typical of the Sforza style. It was designed by a...Read More
Behind this church's early-Renaissance facade is a baroque interior with carefully restored frescoes and a baptismal font dating from 1430....Read More
With its heavy-column arcades, wrought-iron balconies, and shuttered facades, Bellinzona's Old Town exhibits the direct influence of medieval...Read More
The sober, late-Renaissance facade of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Stephen, begun in the 16th century, stands across from the...Read More
Harmonious and almost delicate, the Church of St. Francis and its convent stand cheek by jowl with the painfully bulky, modern building that...Read More
Built in the 17th century, the Church of St. Anthony stands on a small plaza in the midst of narrow streets lined with splendid old medieval...Read More
The simple facade doesn't prepare you for the riches within. Begun in the late 15th century, the church contains a magnificent fresco of the...Read More
The earliest records of the Church of St. Mary of Grace date from the 15th century, when it was part of a Franciscan monastery. Now it's a retirement...Read More
This exuberantly decorated baroque church, built in 1630, has a disproportionately large statue of St. Christopher on its facade. ...Read More
One of Bellinzona's two Italianate churches, St. Biagio is a spare medieval treasure guarded on the exterior by an outsize fresco of a soldierly...Read More
A steep and picturesque climb leads up to the Chiesa di Madonna del Sasso, with its well-preserved 16th-century frescoes. Its elevated setting...Read More
This lakefront sculpture garden frames a dozen modern works with palms, camellias, oleanders, and magnolias. At the far west end there's a public...Read More
In the tower of the Casa Camuzzi, a fabulous jumble of old houses on a hilltop in Montagnola, the Herman Hesse Museum is tiny but impressive...Read More
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