Lugano and Gandria in Switzerland’s Ticino
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Lugano, in the Ticino district of southern Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lugano, has both a medieval and Mediterranean feeling that you will discover in our in-depth visit, which also brings you to the lakefront villages of Gandria and Morcote.
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We go by train, boat, on foot and funicolare to show you many great sites including Swiss Miniatur, with small models of Swiss buildings in a park setting, and the Alprose chocolate factory.
The historic center of Lugano is famous for arcades that line both sides of the street forming covered sidewalk areas with a calm and sheltered environment, protecting you from the rain and sun.
This style of columns and arches is reminiscent of Italian architecture -- after all, we are right next to Italy here in Lugano and you also see that feeling of Italy in the piazza, the big open square. The language is Italian and so is much of the lifestyle here in Ticino, which enjoys a magical blend of two cultures, with Swiss efficiency and Italian charm.
You will love how well the pedestrian zone works - peaceful streets with people walking here and there. It is so friendly and sociable, makes for a great atmosphere.
We really enjoyed stopping at this famous gourmet food shop, Gabbani, in business here since 1937 and they've really branched out - they've got a wine shop, a cheese shop, and they even run a small hotel that's ranked number three on Trip Advisor.
This area is also world famous for its chocolates. In fact there's a chocolate factory just outside the city we visit, the Alprose, and you will see how they make their chocolates.
Another feature that makes Lugano so attractive are the hillside streets. It's just so much more interesting than being in a flatland town. They've got staircase streets, they've got gently sloping streets, and it's all for pedestrians. It's a small part of town. It's a section which is goes up the hill alongside the funicular, but it really is a lot of fun to check it out. Some of the restaurants put tables out on the staircase streets. That would be a fine place to eat on a nice day. And even though it's a little bit of work to walk up the steps, it's a very popular retail center.
It's a kind of backbeat neighborhood with some quirky little boutiques and unique shops and artists and craftspeople. You'll run into some real characters here. Custom-made clothing and jewelry a whole variety of fun things to look at.
It's the kind of neighborhood that would be very easy to mess, or you might be easily discouraged if you get to the foot of one of those hills and look up and think "oh, no, I don't want to walk up that hill. But really it's not difficult at all. The slope is very gradual - you walk up, you walk down.
We’re also going to take you on a scenic boat ride from Lugano to Gandria, just five miles away. On a day like this it's perfect to sit up on the outdoor deck, or you could sit down below inside. It's very comfortable there as well. We're traveling in the month of May in Switzerland and it's warm and sunny especially because we're in the southern part of the country.
Gandria is truly a magical little village, clinging to the hillside along the shores of Lake Lugano. We will be getting off here and taking a little stroll through the village and finding it is a pedestrian zone. Cars are not allowed in the village itself because the lanes are just much too narrow and steep.
As soon as you get off the boat you can start exploring as we wind our way around these narrow lanes, and bends and turns and twists and discovering - always fun to explore someplace new for the first time.
This is part of our big series of movies about Switzerland taking you to most of the great places. We will bring you to Lucerne and up to Mount Titlis, Mount Rigi, over to Interlaken, up to the Jungfrau. We will see the Shilthorn, Lauterbrunnen Valley, Trummelbach Falls, Grindelwald, Bern, then on to Zermatt, the Matterhorn, yes we will have a look at the Gornergrat, up the Sunnegga, do some hiking, show you the village then on down to Lugano and Locarno in the southern part of Switzerland, the Ticino we also take you to the great city of Zürich. Look for them in our Swiss collection.
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Dennis you are my favourite tour guide. Better than rick steves. He always pushes his religious views & worse speaks as if it’s fact. The things you do so well is give info others don’t. Like prices for stuff, whether the disabled can & or can’t go, most of all there’s so many places & buildings I badly want to see inside and so many others don’t take you inside but you do. Please keep making these great videos because I watch them all many times. My parents are taking their 1st trip to Europe and I’m nervous as they’re elderly so do you have a website where they can get info about you and tours you do and so on? I would feel a lot better if they went with someone experienced like yourself. Thanks very much for these fantastic videos, it’s the closest I can get without actually going!
@denniscallan
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for that nice comment. That's why I keep making the movies, to entertain while providing useful information about where to go, what to see...Yes, I do lead a couple of tours to Europe each year that you can read about on my website: toursbytrain.com/index.html Thanks again!
Thanks. I'll visit here soon.
Great Videos, thanks for sharing
Bravo, well done!
Love your narration!
I love this place ❤
In my youth I spent the night in a very large and old estate that was being used as a youth hostel.I did not linger in Lugano,but finally many years later you gave me the chance to see the town. I guess that it was a retirement haven mainly for Europeans at that time and today likely attracts retired people from all over the world. Nostalgic for me to see this.Thank you.
One of my favorite places on earth :) ♥ Lugano ♥ can't wait to go back !!
Going there in September 2023.
Nicely explained
That was beautiful I enjoyed it 0
beautiful....
I love LUGANO!!!
I wish to come along with you to next trip when you're planning ....Great going
BELLA LUGANO E GANDRIA, CIAO DA FRED RIGHETTI, ITALY MILANO, BYE
Thank you so much for these wonderful videos! Very well done.....Subscribed☺
The domed villa shown at 20:43 is not the Favorita, but Villa Helios; Favorita is the Internizzi's estate, shown at 13:07.
@denniscallan
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you
Thanks Dennis! You make beautiful travel videos!
Thank you for sharing your travel videos. We have been enjoying them.
Thank you very much for this beautiful video
Great video! I'm adding Lugano to my list of places to visit when going to Switzerland in September. I do disagree with one thing you said though, about no need to rent a car because of the effectiveness of the trains. I would strongly advice people to rent a car and spend a day or two driving around the amazing alpine passes in Switzerland, it's an exceptional way of experiencing the amazing scenery throughout the alps, as well as driving the best roads in the world.
@denniscallan
6 жыл бұрын
Hi zemekiel, thanks for the suggestion to drive a few days in the Alpine passes -- great idea, I should try it next time.
Thanks for your quality travel videos :)
Lugano❤❤❤🇨🇭🇮🇹🇨🇭🇮🇹🇨🇭🇮🇹
wow good video .i fled i be here .
the cat made the video that much more special.
Love all your videos, it is real pleasure to watch them. Although, I don't like this idea of splitting screen in 3 parts. It is overwhelming (too much going on) and hard to follow. Other than that, great work, thank you!
@denniscallan
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the nice thoughts and your comment about my occasional use of 3 screens...which appeals to some and not so to others. My explanation: When traveling we are surrounded with multiple visuals yet can only look at one thing at a time, so my use of multi-panels is an interpretation of that reality. When walking through a place I always make an effort to look around (and shoot) as much as possible, breaking out of tunnel vision, so this presentation is a reminder for us to keep our eyes open and moving. Multi-screens is a way to present more information in a shorter time, compressing imagery, but if it doesn't work for you just look at the large image and ignore the sidebars. I do slow down the pace of editing to facilitate viewers to browse around without missing much, and I keep the images related to each other yet slightly different. Viewers are getting used to multiple images on TV, especially news reports and commercials, so it's almost normal now. I've always been a fan of collage and multiple images so this is an extension of that. (P.S. this is also a way I can utilize older DV footage in an HD frame. Standard definition doesn't look so good when blown up to HD format, and I have lots of unused footage that would never be seen if not for this approach.)
that part of Switzerland they speak Italian .
@variorahmadian7482
3 жыл бұрын
i see because maybe border/more close with Italy country correct? Geneva speak France because more close to France. Bern,Zurich,Basel speak Germany.
@jassack8498
3 жыл бұрын
@@variorahmadian7482 yes. And, only in recent history and better travel technology have the separate languages of the difficult Alps to travel through , have been meeting and procreating with each other . Today, by far, German is the largest spoken language in Switzerland
SO WRONG!!! Lake Lugano is IMMACULATE. It's not at all polluted and I can't believe the maker of this video said that. If you have ever been there you can see at least 15 deep. The water is clear and amazing. It's exactly why I vacation there.
@denniscallan
4 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you found clean water, the improvements are working. What I said in the video is "Pollution has long been a problem in Lake Lugano and they have been working on cleaning it up, putting in sewage treatment plants and other kinds of monitoring, "
Ma ville
Vivment je part vivre la bas ral bol de sr croix
the video is great,but the sound of the speach is vey weak,that is really bad.
@denniscallan
5 жыл бұрын
turn up your volume. There is plenty of audio level there.