Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Castagnola, Switzerland
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4.6 km
277 m
Explore Castagnola in Switzerland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Sight 1: Chiesa di San Giorgio
The parish church of San Giorgio is a religious building located in Castagnola-Casarate-Ruvigliana, a district of the Swiss city of Lugano.
Sight 2: Villa Favorita
Villa Favorita is located in the Castagnola district, in Lugano, on the shores of the lake of the same name, on the slopes of Monte Brè.
Sight 3: Museo cantonale di storia naturale
The Cantonal Museum of Natural History of Lugano is currently the most important pole of the Canton of Ticino in the fields of mineralogy and petrography, paleontology, geology, vertebrate zoology, zoology of invertebrates, botany and mycology.
Wikipedia: Museo cantonale di storia naturale di Lugano (IT)
Sight 4: Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angioli
The church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is a late Romanesque religious building located in Lugano City Center
Sight 5: Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana
The Swiss–Italian Art Museum, commonly known as MASI Lugano, MASILugano or MASI, is an art museum predominantly featuring 20th-century and contemporary art in Lugano, Switzerland. Since December 2019, the museum has two locations, one in the Lugano Arte e Cultura (LAC) art center, and one in the Palazzo Reali.
Sight 6: Museo delle Culture
The MUSEC, Museo delle Culture di Lugano was opened on 23 September 1989 with the aim of preserving most of the ethnic art collected by Serge Birignoni and coming in particular from the Far East, India, South-East Asia, Indonesia and Oceania. Since then, the museum has had the honour of receiving numerous other prestigious collections of ethnic and oriental art, photography, contemporary and applied art. Works donated or deposited at MUSEC have been or will be the protagonists of dedicated temporary exhibitions. The museum was founded as the Museum of Extra-European Cultures, in 2007 it was renamed "Museo delle Culture" and since 2017 "MUSEC- Museo delle Culture". It is housed in the central Villa Malpensata, with access possible both from Via Mazzini and from Riva Caccia.
Sight 7: Chiesa di Loreto
The church of Santa Maria di Loreto is a religious building that blends elements of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and is located in Lugano, in the Lugano-Loreto district.
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