Lugano, the largest town in the holiday region of Ticino, is not only Switzerland's third most important financial centre and a conference, banking and business centre, but also a town of parks and flowers, villas and sacred buildings. With Mediterranean flair, Lugano offers all the advantages of a world-class city, combined with the cachet of a small town.

ATTRACTIONS

• Located on the shores of Lake Lugano,Parco Civico Ciani is supposed to be one of the most beautiful parks in Switzerland.
• Enjoy wonderful panorama of the town, lake and mountains fromMonte Brè located on the outskirts of Lugano
• Monte San Salvatore: from the top of the "sugarloaf" (reached by funicular railway from Lugano-Paradiso) you can walk down the panoramic footpath to Carona and then on to Morcote.
• Have an overview of Switzerland and spend a nice time in a wonderful region, at Swissminiatur, an exciting place and a must see attraction for everyone.
• San Lorenzo Cathedral – set above the Old Town, it is worth a visit with its facade in the Lombardy Renaissance style, and countless frescoes and valuable Baroque artefacts inside.
• Church of Santa Maria degliAngioli, a former monastery church, findthe fine frescoes by the masters of the Renaissance.
• Hesse Museum in Montagnola – small, intimate museum for the writer and adopted son of Ticino, Hermann Hesse, who lived and wrote in southern Switzerland for at least half a century.