Specifics You Should Be Informed About Visiting Piazzogna

Piazzogna in Locarno District (Canton Ticino) with it’s 395 habitants is located in Switzerland about 86 mi (or 139 km) south-east of Bern, the nation’s capital town.

The area timezone is termed Europe / Zurich by having an UTC offset of just one hour. We all know of 9 airports near Piazzogna, ones 4 are larger airports. The nearest airport in Switzerland is Locarno Airport inside a distance of three mi (or 5 km), North-East. Apart from the airports, there are more travel possibilities open (check left side).

There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. Closest heritage site in Switzerland is Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts from the Market-Town of Bellinzona in a distance of 10 mi (or 17 km), North-East. We encountered 4 destinations near this location. If you want a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further further down.

While being here, you should go to see many of the following locations: Veddasca, Curiglia, Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore, Tronzano Lago Maggiore and Agra.

Botanical garden of Gambarogno

This magnificent botanic garden can be found for the Gambarogno-side of Lake Maggiore, on a plain in the hills between Piazzogna and Vairano.

Within this place, Otto Eisenhut, a patient and talented cultivator of plants and trees, cultivated a huge number of beautiful and colourful flowering plants like 950 kinds of camelias, 450 different magnolias, azaleas, peonies and Rhododendron with a the surface of more than 20’000 m2.

Additionally, here grows also ivy, pines, juniper along with other rare European and exotic coniferous trees.

Since the beginning of year 2000 the park is led by the donation ” parco botanico del gambarogno “, which is to be sure that the continuity of this attractive garden having its valuable botanic collection.

Visitors need an hour for that holiday to this park, connoisseurs probably somewhat longer.

Cardada Cimetta

Have you ever thought that above Locarno there is a view point where you will see simultaneously the cheapest point (Lago Maggiore) as well as the highest point (Dufour Peak in Monte Rosa) in Switzerland?

For the summit from the mountain, 1671 meters above sea level, a viewing platform was built which overlooks the complete region of Lake Maggiore. On the east the vista stretches from the Magadino Plain to Bellinzona. For the west the scene extends over probably the most famous peaks with the Swiss Alps such as the Dufour. Towards the south, past the mountains that surround Lake Maggiore, you can see from the distance the Ligurian Apennines, located near Genoa.

Further down, several meters outside the arrival station with the cable car a footbridge was built which winds its way across the tops with the trees from the woods below. Because of this unusual scenic promontory it is possible to admire the lake, the Centovalli and elements of the Maggia Valley.

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