Locarno, Switzerland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

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 »