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Lugano

Lugano is a lakeside city in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of southern Switzerland, and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy. Part of a temperate micro-climate, Lugano offers palm trees, picturesque boulevards, stunning views of the lake and the Alps, and plenty of opportunity for outdoor and indoor activities. Wikivoyage

Population 63,495 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Switzerland

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Switzerland
Tourist office · 550 m Tourist Info Point - Ente Turistico del Luganese Lugano Region

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Blues to Bop Festival

    August

    Free open air music festival with multiple stages throughout the heart of Lugano in late August. Dead link

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Lugano); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • TicinoTour Market

    No hours mapped

    1.3 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 23 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Lugano Stazione (funicolare) 610 m, Lugano 660 m, Lugano-Paradiso (S. Salvatore) 1.1 km, Sorengo 1.2 km, Paradiso 1.2 km, Sorengo Laghetto 1.3 km, Cassarate 1.7 km, Pazzallo Paese 1.7 km, Pazzallo 1.9 km, Suvigliana 1.9 km, Cappella-Agnuzzo 2.1 km, Albonago 2.2 km, Aldesago Villaggio 2.4 km, Aldesago Utoring 2.6 km, San Salvatore (Vetta) 2.6 km, Brè Villaggio 3.0 km, Monte Brè 3.0 km, Bioggio Molinazzo 3.1 km, Bioggio 3.4 km, Serocca 3.6 km

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