Mainline trains speed south to Lugano and Milan, while a branch line heads west from Bellinzona to Lake Maggiore and its principal Swiss resort, LOCARNO , a characterful old town on a broad sweeping bay, its piazzas overlooked by subtropical gardens of palms, camellias, bougainvillea, cypress, oleanders and magnolias. It can get overrun with the rich and wannabe-famous on summer weekends yet manages to retain its sun-drenched cool. The focus of town is Piazza Grande , just off the palm-fringed lakefront, where on warm summer nights exquisitely groomed locals parade to and fro. The sixteenth- and … more »
Though it was once the seat of the dukes of Milan, the small city of Locarno has been part of... more »
Though it was once the seat of the dukes of Milan, the small city of Locarno has been Swiss since... more »
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