Category: travel
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Gandria, Lago di Lugano
On our second day in Lugano, we each bought a pass that allowed us unlimited travel on many of the local buses, boats, and funicular railways. First, we hopped on one of the tour boats (Societa Navigazione del Lago di Lugano) and cruised to the villages dotted around Lago di Lugano. The boats makes many…
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To Paradiso and up Monte San Salvatore
Paradiso is next to Lugano but because of urban sprawl, you will not notice that you have entered “paradise”. What a name for a town ! We arrived by boat to take a funicolare (funicular railway) that goes up to Monte San Salvatore. This is one of the four or five of funicular railways that…
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Morcote
On our third day, we took a boat tour to the Southern side of Lago di Lugano towards Morcote and other lake side villages (Capolago, Porto Ceresio, Figino) and ending in Ponte Tresa at the border with Italy. For much of the cruise, the left bank is Italy and the right bank is Switzerland. It…
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Easter weekend: Lugano
The center of Lugano is Piazza Riforma (above and immediately below), the other end of Via Nassa. Because it was Easter (Pasqua as they call it), each of the many small piazzas have a market and they stayed open the entire weekend. Via Nassa is very narrow but lined by nice shops in arcades. The…
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Hotel International Au Lac Lugano Reprise
Hope this is not too boring but I just found some more pictures of our old-fashioned European-style hotel. There is an old disused funicular railway next to the hotel, quite a few people walk up and down those steps. Next to the funicular railway is Piazza Luini and the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli,…
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Hotel International Au Lac Lugano
The main train station in Lugano is on a hill, and is connected by a short funicular railway to the city center. Our hotel is located at the end of Via Nessa, the main pedestrian-only shopping street of Lugano which is parallel to and one block from the lake front.We stayed in this hotel during our 3…