The landscape around the Lago Maggiore and the Lago di Lugano on the Italian and Swiss border is with regard to climate as well as vegetation and culture singular in Europe. The climate is warm and mild in every season, and produces a lot kind of palmtrees, flowers, orange- and lemontrees. This luxuriant mediterranian flora you can admire in a lot of beautiful parks and gardens. Beside a lot of possibilities of walking-tours in the mountains, the region offers a lot of aquatic sports and bathing-pleasure. Supplementary a lot of cultural offers like visiting palaces, cathedrals and monasteries, festivals like the famous filmfestival in Locarno and also wine-ceremony in September/October are inviting you. Besides there is an excellent gastronomic culture in the Italian as well as in the Swiss region.

Some impressions of the Lago Maggiore and the Lago di Lugano...

Luino with the varied weekly market on Wednesday, the manifold and biggest one in the region, with promenade at the seashore and beach. From the harbour you can reach the bigger villages and towns at the Lago Maggiore by ship ...

possibilities of wonderful walking-tours around the mountain range of Monte Lema with marvellous view around the lakes and the 4000 metre Western-Alps with their snow-covered summits ...

the elegant charme of the Ticino in Lugano's cultivated old town or along the promenade and the pittoresk lanes in Ponte Tresa ...

the Isola Bella and the other isles of Borromaeus with their magnificent parks and palaces ( also attainable by ship from Luino ) ...

... but there are in the Italian as well as in the Swiss region many more things to discover and also a visit in Milan, the Lombardian metropole, pays ...