Piazzogna in Locarno District (Canton Ticino) with it’s 395 habitants is found in Switzerland about 86 mi (or 139 km) south-east of Bern, the country’s capital town.
A nearby timezone is termed Europe / Zurich having an UTC offset of a single hour. We realize of 9 airports near Piazzogna, that 4 are larger airports. Closest airport in Switzerland is Locarno Airport inside a distance of 3 mi (or 5 km), North-East. Besides the airports, there are many travel possibilities open (check left side).
There are numerous Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The nearest heritage site in Switzerland is Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts in the Market-Town of Bellinzona in the distance of 10 mi (or 17 km), North-East. We encountered 4 sights near this location. Prefer a hotel, we compiled a listing of available hotels close to the map centre further listed below.
While being here, you might want to check out some 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 can be found around the Gambarogno-side of Lake Maggiore, over a plain from the hills between Piazzogna and Vairano.
On this place, Otto Eisenhut, an individual and talented cultivator of plants and trees, cultivated a large number of beautiful and colourful flowering plants like 950 kinds of camelias, 450 different magnolias, azaleas, peonies and Rhododendron over a the surface of more than 20’000 m2.
Moreover, here grows also ivy, pines, juniper as well as other rare European and exotic coniferous trees.
Forever of the season 2000 the park is led through the donation ” parco botanico del gambarogno “, which would be to ensure the continuity of the attractive garden featuring its valuable botanic collection.
Visitors need one hour to the trip to this park, connoisseurs probably somewhat longer.
Cardada Cimetta
Perhaps you have considered that above Locarno there is a view point where you can view simultaneously the cheapest point (Lago Maggiore) and also the highest point (Dufour Peak in Monte Rosa) in Switzerland?
About the summit from the mountain, 1671 meters above sea level, a viewing platform was built which overlooks the entire region of Lake Maggiore. For the east the vista stretches through the Magadino Plain to Bellinzona. For the west the scene extends over many of the most famous peaks in the Swiss Alps including the Dufour. South, past the mountains that surround Lake Maggiore, you can see inside the distance the Ligurian Apennines, located near Genoa.
Further down, several meters outside the arrival station from the cable car a footbridge was built which winds its way throughout the tops in the trees of the woods below. From this unusual scenic promontory you can admire the river, the Centovalli and elements of the Maggia Valley.
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