Welcome to Locarno, in the Italian Switzerland

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15 Things to do in Locarno

1 Piazza Grande, the heart of the city with its arcade-style typically Lombard.
In August hosts the International Festival of Film.
Facing the Palace Square, which was the seat of the Cantonal Government and the Municipality.

2 Old Town, with its ancient palaces, beautiful courtyards and narrow alleys is the core antco Locarno.
Via Sant'Antonio and the Via Cittadella, which are the two main roads. To visit the Piazzetta of corporations.

3rd Visconti Castle, whose primary attraction dates back to 998, with an inner courtyard of the fifteenth century, and richly inlaid ceilings. Today Archaeological Museum exhibits precious vases and goblets of glass and finds from the Roman. Commemorative hall of the Conference on Peace of 1925. Closed from November to March.

4th Casa Rusca eighteenth century building, once home Patriziale, art gallery today of the City of Locarno.

5th House of the Canons, Palazzo Orelli down with a beautiful courtyard with arcades of the seventeenth century. Private property and not open.

6th Casorella, adjacent to the Visconti Castle is a palace that was built between 1575-1593

7th Morettini Palace, built in 1703, he accepted from 1946 to 1976 a community of nuns in the Carmelite nuns. Today houses the library of Locarno.

8th House of the Necromancers, a meeting of the nobility of the sixteenth century, a typical example of a mansion Locarnese.

9th Church of San Francesco, choir and dome of the XIV century nave of 1528. Next to the church the former monastery of the Franciscans of the thirteenth century with the former refectory.

10th Piazza and Church of St. Anthony of the seventeenth century. Remarkable the altar of the dead Christ and the new liturgical altar wood sculptors Tyroleans Ortisei 1974.

11th New Church in 1630 with stuccoes eighteenth. The baroque facade is a monumental statue of St. Christopher and Saints San Rocco and San Sebastiano.

12th Church Santa Maria in Selva, a small church located in the cemetery of Locarno.
Interesting frescoes of the Gothic of the fourteenth century Cortese. Consecrated on 24 February 1414.

13th Church of San Vittore typical example of the magnificent building with Romanesque crypt decorated with capitals of the most beautiful in Switzerland.

14th Church San Quirico small Baroque church (1795-1801) Precious frescoes late Roman and Gothic. To visit the tower also enlarged in'500.

15 Sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso, in the same place where a Frà Bartolomeo d'Ivrea in 1480 the Virgin Mary appeared in 1487 was built a small church, then expanded. Inside the shrine there are works of great interest. The path that leads to the Shrine Locarno (Via Crucis) is full of typical chapels of the Sacred Mountains Lombardi.