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loisl Says: The mountains around Bellinzona a inviting you for a hike, either a short 30 minute stroll or a serious 5 hour hike, what ever you are up to.Prepare your self according to the degree of difficulty your select.There are several webpages helpfull, see my link as one of them
great facades in italian style
globetrott Says: You will find a lot of interesting facades all over the centre of Bellinzona and some of them will give you the impression that you see 3-dimensional ornaments there, but in fact they are totally flat and just made in a certain technique like you will find it also in...
Collegiata dei SS Pietro e Stefano
globetrott Says: The church Collegiata dei SS Pietro e Stefano dates back to the 16th century and was built in Renaissance-style by Tomaso Rodari from Maroggia, who had built also the cathedral of Como. Take a look inside, it is really impressive.
Piazza Indipendenza & Chiesa di S. Rocco
globetrott Says: Chiesa di S. Rocco - on the right of my main picture - was my favorite building on Piazza Indipendenza with an obelisc in the centre of the square. You will see some houses with great facades there as well. Cheisa di S. Rocco is worth seeing, but unfortunately I got there,...
globetrott Says: This building is the townhall of Bellinzona and you will also find the tourist-information in the innercourt of this lovely building that reminds me a lot of an italian palazzo.This building with various balconies facing the main square looks great already from outside, but...
globetrott Says: Terracotta-house is not the official name of this interesting building, that I saw not far from the townhall and it was decorated with interesting sculptures made of terracotta all over the facade and at the balconies. The building is used as a shopping-centre nowadays and...
globetrott Says: Castello di Sasso Corbaro is high up on a hill and overlooking the city of Bellinzona from quite a remote place, that is about 500 meters above the city. The castle dates back to the year 1478 and that way it is the "newest" of the 3 medieval castles.There is a public bus...
globetrott Says: This is a seperate part of the medieval townwall of Bellinzona, next to the townhall. You cannot enter this part, it is just the wall for the car-park there. A few meters further-on the walls of another castle will begin, unfortunately I did not have enough time to explore...
Murata - the medieval townwall
globetrott Says: Murata is the name for the medieval townwall that is dating back to the 15th century. You will be able to walk along this wall for several hundreds of meters on its top or as well in a hidden and quite dark corridor below (see both entrances in my 2nd pic). Both paths will...
1 Review and 32 Opinions When we reached the railway station of Bellinzona. We started our tour of the city from here. On the...
MalenaN Says: Arriving in Bellinzona I looked for a place to eat, before exploring the castles. It was a sunny February day and on Piazza Collegiata I found the snack bar/tea room Peverelli, which had some outside tables in the sun. I went inside and ordered a sandwich with roast beef and...
Cremeria Bar: Cremeria Bar-Icecream
mary2u99 Says: The bar is famous for its ice cream! One of it is called Poision! Who don't like Italian ice cream(gelato)!!! Too bad, I was there in December and they don't sell icecream in winter! Well we end up have a cup of Italian coffee.Hmmm.. one of my friend said I can't call it...
MalenaN Says: While I was visiting northern Italy I made a daytrip to Lugano and Bellinzona. There are frequent trains from Milan to Lugano (takes 1 - 2 hours) and from Como (takes just over half an hour). I got a ride to Chiasso and took a train from there to Lugano. The trains are...
ealgisi Says: To use highways you must purchase and display a tax disc (vignette) on your vehicle. The cost is EUR 40The penalty for not displaying a disc is €80. They are sold at border crossings, fuel stations and post offices.
xaver Says: We had the nice idea of visiting the castles in a snowing day and the picture shows in what conditions we found the steps, I must admitt I filmed all my friends while going up and down the steps wishing someone to fall down and get a very funny video, but it didn't happen, I...
globetrott Says: Piazza del Sole is a totally flat square right below Castelgrande that is used for various festivities and performances. In fact it is nothing else than the top of a giant garage underneath and these 4 "boxes" made of concrete are the entrances to this public garage in the...
A great Art Nouveau facade at Casa del Populo
globetrott Says: Casa del Populo / house of the people is the name of this building with some interesting architecture and you will find it in a distance of about 100 meters from the trainstation of Bellinzona. Take a look at this great art-nouveau facade !
globetrott Says: There is a great cannon shown opposite of the tourist-information and there are also lots of paintings of old scenes of Bellinzona`s history right under the arcades of the innercourt of Palazzo Civico, the townhall of Bellinzona.
globetrott Says: Piazza Collegiata is a nice square with some interesting buildings and you will find it between the Palazzo Civico and Piazza del Sole. You will also find some nice garden-restaurants there and my favorite building was the one on my main photo, that you will find next to the...
ealgisi Says: The most common European emergency number 112 (following Directive 2002/22/EC: Universal Service Directive) and also standard on GSM mobile phones. 112 is used in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,...
Mountain passes and tunnels information
ealgisi Says: It is always better to be informed about road conditions.So for this reason here's a website that wil tell you every Swiss tunnel and mountain pass status, open or closed.http://www.tcs.ch/main/it/home/verkehrsinfo/paesse_tunnels.html
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If you are fed up with the heat during the summer, why not go up to the cool mountains?The local people did this allready hundert's of years ago.They have built...
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Q: I would like to know infomation on a Hotel Metropole located at Viale Stazione, Bellinzona. I was told it was located infront of...
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