Piazzogna in Locarno District (Canton Ticino) with it’s 395 habitants is found Switzerland about 86 mi (or 139 km) south-east of Bern, the country’s capital town.
A nearby timezone is named Europe / Zurich having an UTC offset of one hour. We realize of 9 airports near to Piazzogna, that 4 are larger airports. The closest airport in Switzerland is Locarno Airport inside a distance of 3 mi (or 5 km), North-East. Aside from the airports, there are additional travel possibilities (check left side).
There are many Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The nearest heritage site in Switzerland is Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona within a distance of 10 mi (or 17 km), North-East. We encountered 4 destinations 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 should go to see 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 located about the Gambarogno-side of Lake Maggiore, on a plain in the hills between Piazzogna and Vairano.
In this place, Otto Eisenhut, someone and talented cultivator of plants and trees, cultivated a huge number of beautiful and vibrant flowering plants like 950 varieties of camelias, 450 different magnolias, azaleas, peonies and Rhododendron on the the surface of over 20’000 m2.
Furthermore, here grows also ivy, pines, juniper along with other rare European and exotic coniferous trees.
Forever of year 2000 the park is led with the donation ” parco botanico del gambarogno “, which is to guarantee the continuity with this attractive garden using its valuable botanic collection.
Visitors need one hour for that visit to this park, connoisseurs probably somewhat longer.
Cardada Cimetta
Maybe you have believed that above Locarno you will find there’s view point from where you can see at the same time the cheapest point (Lago Maggiore) as well as the highest point (Dufour Peak in Monte Rosa) in Switzerland?
For the summit in the mountain, 1671 meters above sea level, a viewing platform was built which overlooks the whole region of Lake Maggiore. On the east the view stretches in the Magadino Plain to Bellinzona. For the west the view extends over one of the most famous peaks in the Swiss Alps including the Dufour. South, beyond the mountains that surround Lake Maggiore, you can observe within the distance the Ligurian Apennines, located near Genoa.
Further down, a couple of meters away from the arrival station from the cable car a footbridge was built which winds its way across the tops of the trees with the woods below. Because of this unusual scenic promontory you’ll be able to admire the stream, the Centovalli and areas of the Maggia Valley.
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