Splendide Royal Lugano
Riva Caccia 7 Lugano, Ticino, Swiss Alps, 6900, Switzerland
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The lake, the opera and the church
... The Duomo'. WOW! It took 500 years to complete and is a Gothic style cathedral in the same vein of Notre Dame. Huge statues on the outside and huge stained glass on the inside. A marble patterned floor, and just the most amazing altars and chapels.
Back on the bus and back to Como (actually we are staying in Varese, but Como is close enough) and dinner in the hotel again. Tomorrow we are off to Pisa and ...
A quick trip to Switzerland
... must be a soccer match on and they were all watching it on TV.
Lugano is a lovely little town on the side of a huge lake. It was a nice place to spend a couple of hours. We walked along the lake side, then got a hot chocolate. It was another wonderful thick 'ciocolatta'.
Back at our hotel we had dinner. It was pasta for entree, chicken schnitzel with potatoes and beans for main course and a lovely little cake for dessert. Tea and coffee ...
Beautiful...Brilliant...Bellagio
... warm but who’s complaining!!!
We were meeting up with Mark and Kerry for breakfast so Mary woke me up in time and looking out of the window was a cloud…at the same height as us …right in the middle of the lake…a picture ready to be taken but by the time I took out the camera …it was gone. . I have already said what a lovely hotel the 'Borgo le terrazze’ is. It is only a 3 star Hotel mainly because there is no restaurant or bar to ...
Um pouquinho da Suíça
... floridas, pistas de esqui. Este conjunto faz da viagem um momento inesquecível. E como não poderia deixar de ser, passamos direto pelo Lago de Como e resolvemos dar uma esticadinha até Lugano na Suíça. Lugano, uma simpática cidade de 30 mil habitantes em meio a montanhas e banhada por um lago. Graças a sua proximidade com a Itália, o idioma aqui é o italiano e o povo parece ser ...
Transport of Delight
... other countries cannot provide similar systems.
The town centre of Lugano is blessed with beautiful colonnaded streets and pretty buildings. But these have been spoiled by the careless introduction of unsightly temporary buildings and stagings. It seems like an attempt by the city to move its appeal from the well heeled and older generation to a younger and more transient set – it doesn't seem like ...



