Morcote Favorites

Favorite thing: Morcote is a small village with about 700 inhabitants on the shore of Lake Ceresio (Lake Lugano). It's a beautiful fishing village that has kept its traditional architecture and characteristics: painted houses with an arched passageway underneath and very narrow lanes with bizarre names.

It is located about 10 kilometres from Lugano and it is accessible by bus (but beware, they don't run often and only until 6-ish PM) or else by boat. You can also get there by car but I would not recommend it, as the village is notorius for having far too few parking spaces and just one policeman, Dennis, who loves fining foreigners (in this particular case, anyone not from Morcote).

Fondest memory: Despite being small there are plenty of things to see in Morcote, beside the ladscape and lakescape: the Santa Maria del Sasso church, the monumental cemetery, the tower Torre del Capitano and a beautiful park/botanical garden. It's called Parco Scherrer and you can see a lot of subtropical plants and trees there; in the spring it's impressive.