Points It’s Important To Understand 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 local timezone is named Europe / Zurich with an UTC offset of a single hour. We realize of 9 airports all-around Piazzogna, ones 4 are larger airports. The closest airport in Switzerland is Locarno Airport inside a distance of three mi (or 5 km), North-East. In addition to the airports, there are other travel solutions (check left side).

There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The nearest heritage site in Switzerland is Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts in the Market-Town of Bellinzona within a distance of 10 mi (or 17 km), North-East. We encountered 4 points of interest near this location. If you need a hotel, we compiled a directory of available hotels towards the map centre further further down.

While being here, you might want to check out 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 is situated about the Gambarogno-side of Lake Maggiore, on a plain from the hills between Piazzogna and Vairano.

With this place, Otto Eisenhut, the patient and talented cultivator of plants and trees, cultivated 1000s of beautiful and vibrant flowering plants like 950 kinds of camelias, 450 different magnolias, azaleas, peonies and Rhododendron over a the top of over 20’000 m2.

In addition, here grows also ivy, pines, juniper as well as other rare European and exotic coniferous trees.

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

Visitors need one hour for that trip to this park, connoisseurs probably somewhat longer.

Cardada Cimetta

Maybe you have belief that above Locarno you will find there’s view point from where you will see simultaneously the minimum point (Lago Maggiore) as well as the highest point (Dufour Peak in Monte Rosa) in Switzerland?

Around the summit of the mountain, 1671 meters above sea level, a viewing platform was built which overlooks your entire region of Lake Maggiore. On the east the scene stretches from the Magadino Plain to Bellinzona. Towards the west the vista extends over many of the most famous peaks in the Swiss Alps such as the Dufour. To florida, at night mountains that surround Lake Maggiore, you can see inside the distance the Ligurian Apennines, located near Genoa.

Further down, a few meters out of the arrival station from the cable car a footbridge was built which winds its way across the tops of the trees from the woods below. From this unusual scenic promontory you are able to admire the forest, the Centovalli and aspects of the Maggia Valley.

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