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And what about Ticino? Sometimes called the Swiss Riviera, Ticino is distinct for its minority language, a flavour of church and community, and cultural connections to neighbouring Italy. Switzerland's Italian-speaking canton of Ticino holds an attrac

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From: Swiss News
Date: 20060301
Author:Wendland, White

Ticino is the only Swiss canton located entirely south of the Alps. The adopted home of Hermann Hesse and other artists and celebrities, Ticino offers a comparatively warm climate, an embarrassing abundance of incredibly lush vegetation, and a foretaste of the rich Italian culture and culinary delights just beyond the border. The weather is generally the inverse of that north of the Alps: when it's overcast in Zurich, it's sunny in Ticino, and vice versa.

Ticino was an impoverished backwater, politically unequal and subjugated to neighbouring cantons for centuries, but the ...

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And what about Ticino? Sometimes called the Swiss Riviera, Ticino is distinct for its minority language, a flavour of church and community, and cultural connections to neighbouring Italy. Switzerland's Italian-speaking canton of Ticino holds an attrac

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