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A SHORT WALK
LUGANO 17

The number of
heritage sites of
Distance 1 km (0.5 miles) Nearest funicular Lugano national significance
Città Time 20 minutes in Lugano.
EXPERIENCE Central Switzerland and Ticino of finance and banking. With piazzas, stepped streets The 18th-century
Lying in a shallow inlet on the north shore of Lake
Lugano, this is the largest town in Ticino and one of the
canton’s great lakeside resorts. Lugano is also a centre
and narrow, winding alleys, the Old Town (Centro Storico)
has an Italianate character. Its hub is Piazza della Riforma,
Palazzo Riva has
a square lined with tall shuttered buildings
decorated windows
and filled with busy pavement cafés. Palm-
with wrought-iron
fringed promenades line the quays, and
START
balconies.
the distinctive sugar-loaf outlines of
Monte Brè and Monte San Salvatore
rise to the east and south.
The Renaissance façade of
Cattedrale San Lorenzo
contains a rose window
depicting the Madonna V I A S A N LO R E N Z O V I A P E S S I N A
and Child.
V I A M O T TA V I A M A G AT T I

PIAZZA DELL A
RIF ORMA

Palazzo Civico, the R I VA G I O C O N D O A L B E R T O L L I
Neo-Classical town
hall built in 1844–5,
features a statue of
the architect Domenico Filled with pavement
Fontana from Melide. cafés, Piazza della
Riforma is the social
and geographical
hub of Lugano’s
historic centre.
A pastel-coloured
restaurant on the
Piazza della Riforma
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