Our very, very last photos from that lovely visit in Switzerland’s Ticino canton last year. Above and several below from Locarno; also a last shot or two from Melide, Bissone, Campione d’Italia and Morcote.
The ground-level photos in this post are our last of Lago Maggiore at its northernmost end, in Locarno. I’m pretty confident that the shot at the very bottom of the post shows most of the rest of Lago Maggiore, and even a wee bit of the westernmost arm of Lake Lugano (the part you can see, looking down from an amazing overlook in Morcote, in this photo from an earlier post), as seen from the airplane on Sunday afternoon the 15th of June, as our plane flew south from Amsterdam to Rome.
I was in Locarno, on the shores of Lago Maggiore, nearly five months ago already. These are all from a lovely walk around the city on my first morning there. Below you’ll see some of the old “Castello Visconteo,” or viscount’s castle I guess, which is one of the older buildings in this city which dates to the 12th century but does have some Roman history as well, I believe. I mostly just walked around and enjoyed the views – didn’t go into the museum housed in the Castello, sorry…
I was delighted enough with the way this photo captured the water from this downtown-Locarno fountain that I decided we’ll try yet another new series, and I’ve been pondering what to name it in the months since I first took this image. Living water? Moving water? It’s Alive? Almost went with the last, but it sounds too much like a horror film. Vote your pick below, if you wish. I did promise a few new things in this new year, and unlike a few politicians I’ve experienced, I tend to keep promises 🙂
My last few days in Ticino I moved over to Locarno, at the northernmost part of Lago Maggiore where it’s Swiss. (I showed you a few views from the train of bits of the Italian parts farther south, a while ago.) Above and below middle, you can basically see from Locarno on the NW corner of the lake, to the northeastern corner which means these shots cover maybe half the Swiss parts of this enormous lake.
(so much world, so little time....) 