hiking our "home" mountain: cardada-cimetta
by call_me_rhia
Hiking... great yet easy hiking in Locarno's backyard. if you have a car you can drive to Monte bre and hike out from there. Alternatively take the funicular to Orselina and the cacle-car to Bre/San Bernardo and then hike from there. It's about 1 hour to Cardada and an extra hour to cimetta, at 1671 metres above sea level.l
The views over Lake Maggiore and Locarno are incredible and unforgettable. In the distance, in a clear day, you can easily make out the Alps chain - especially the Montrose comfortable shoes - but the trails are even and wide, so hiking boots aren't a must.
Bring some water, but not too much: there's several mountain huts where you can fill up your bottle. Same goes for food: bring some but don0t exaggerate: you can always find something to eat.
The International Film...
by sabsi
The International Film Festival Locarno
There's a huge screen with films twice a night on the Piazza Grande, the main square of Locarno. New films are shown in all the cinemas around, there's celebrities in town etc etc...
Nice town
by irinuca
Mainline trains and fast cars speed south from Bellinzona to Lugano and Milan, while a branch line and often packed minor roads head west for some 15km to Lago Maggiore and its principal Swiss resort, LOCARNO. This characterful old town enjoys the most glorious of locations, on a broad sweeping curve of a bay in the lake, and also clocks up the most sunshine hours of anywhere in Switzerland. The arcades and piazzas of the town centre are overlooked by subtropical gardens of palms, camellias, bougainvillea, cypress, oleanders and magnolias, which flourish on the lakeside promenades and cover the wooded slopes which crowd in above the town centre.
Locarno slumbered under Swiss occupation after 1503, but with independence in the nineteenth century it found its feet as the most elegant of the country’s lakeside resorts. In 1925 its backdrop of Belle Epoque hotels and piazza cafés served as the setting for the Treaty of Locarno, signed by the European powers in a failed effort to secure peace following World War I. The seeds planted at Locarno exploded into war again in 1939, but the town went from strength to strength during the 1950s and after, growing in chic-ness year on year. These days, Locarno focuses all its considerable resources on tourism, and draws in two very different sets of customers: one, from the German-speaking north, arrive to test out their hiking boots, while the other, from fog- and smog-bound Milan, come to test out their sunglasses. The cobbled alleys of Locarno’s Old Town, lined with Renaissance facades, can get entirely overrun with the rich and wannabe-famous on summer weekends, yet still – in the midst of the hubbub – the place manages to retain its sun-drenched cool.
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The view from the terrace restaurant
One of the many !!!
view from cimetta
