What you will miss in the cheaper restaurants is the ebullient Sunday family, sauce-stained napkins and rowdy children, shoveling down a macaroni, garlic and tomato sugo. The Swiss are highly democratic but love imposing taxes.But all this is to say nothing about Lugano, except that the hotels are excellent, the banks imposing and efficient, and milk and butter trilingual. You have Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus, Zug, Solothurn, Basel, Schaffhausen, Appenzell, St. Gallen, Aargau (or Argovie) and Thurgau (or Thurgovie), where they all speak German - or rather their own very Swiss dialect of German.
Pictorial art to Lugano means the Villa Favorita of Baron Thyssen, which houses collections of a cosmopolitan kind, bought with German-Hungarian money and expertise. The story of a mute hermit who lost his voice (or chooses not to speak) after a traumatic combat experience. No hawker will accost you, no corner-boy rob you, no prostitute seek to allure you.LUGANO'S airport is just outside the little town of Agno and, taking a car to or from it, you are reminded that it is the whole canton of Ticino you are here to visit, not just one of its towns. But Milan is in Italy.You will know you are in Switzerland if you arrive from Zurich or Milan by one of the fine Swiss trains, for you will have to get into the town, low-lying by the lake, by paying half a Swiss franc to travel by the tiny funicular railway. 0. In the south it merges into the plain of Lombardy. There a man was arrested for laughing in the street at midnight.I sometimes think that the land should be called Schizoland: it is linguistically schizophrenic. I can let Lugano stew in its summer heat and wander round Ticino. They also have clocks and secret bank accounts, which have a religious origin. Forgive my imperfections. Shapes and color play basically but interestingly and experimentally. We have now to think of Lugano as a town set in a canton. Bouba may have been a war hero, but the war traumatized him too much for him to endure human company. It is a bad town for parking, whereas the little neighboring towns and villages - Vezia, Savosa, Mezzovico, Gravesano - are clean, pretty, healthy and friendly, and you can alway slide your car in somewhere.This, then, is an Italian-speaking region, but it also speaks German.
On the Fringe (1987) Not Yet Rated 1 hr 28 min Oct 10th, 1987 Drama The story of a mute hermit who lost his voice (or chooses not to speak) after a traumatic combat experience. When you buy a hectogram of butter you find it labeled butter, beurre and burro, and a liter of milk is, at one and the same time, milch, lait and latte.
True, Carlo Moderni taught Francisco Borromini, but his great monument - the facade of the Basilica of St. Peter's - is to be found in Rome. There are worse places.YOU can never understand a Swiss town unless you understand Switzerland as a whole. The house is new, with a heating system housed in a kind of ship's engine room, with a compulsory nuclear shelter used for storing old copies of the Corriere della Sera. Lugano is not quite refined enough to be countered by Calabrian squalor. If you travel a little way south from Lugano to the border town of Chiasso - the place where people get arrested, with no possibility of a writ of habeas corpus, for crimes of industrial sabotage - you will get an impression of the American-Mexican frontier, with Swiss Chiasso very clean and proper, and Italian Chiasso a little seedy and run down.In fact, Ticino, which is watered by the River Ticino and its tributaries, lies on the Italian slopes of the Alps.
It has a sense of humor, which you will not find in Zurich. Lugano smarts at not being a true cultural center. No votes yet. ... Lugano again is on the fringe of … He has a complicated relationship with his criminal brother and a stray girl, and there are certain problems they bring along to his almost autistic life.We don't have any reviews for On the Fringe.Want to rate or add this item to a list?${data.known_for_department} • ${data.known_for} It was pure Italy, if one can use the concept with reference to a country that was only officially and imperfectly unified in the last century, and it was taken by the Swiss in 1512, though it did not join the great Swiss confederacy until 1803. That was at a time when Napoleon was redrawing the map of Europe and national concepts were very fluid.Anyway, there Ticino is, with Bellinzona as its capital and Lugano as its center of repose and tourism. If you are feeling ill or have toothache, you will go to Dr. Nussbaumer or Steigenburger, who will treat you with Germanic efficiency, though in impeccable Italian. The clocks keep good time and even the Alps seem scrubbed. Fifty-eight percent are Protestant and 40 percent Catholic, and 2 percent are something else. It is the canton that counts. Alberto Giacometti was Swiss, of course, but he was not from Ticino. And a whole is something that Switzerland does not seem to be.
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