Locarno

Locarno is a city located on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona. It has a population of about 15,000.

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An important film festival, the "Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Locarno", takes place every year in August in the Piazza Grande.

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The Locarno Treaties were negotiated here in 1925.

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In January 2004, the Italian historian Marino Vigano speculated that Locarno's castle may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Lake Maggiore: Lake Maggiore (in Italian: Lago Maggiore or lago Verbano) is the most westerly of the three large Prealpine lakes of Europe and the second largest after Lake Garda. It lies approximately at co-ordinates ....

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Ticino: Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. The language is Italian in almost the entirety of the canton (except the Walser municipality of Bosco/Gurin, where it is German). It contains the Italian enclave of Campione d'Italia. Together with areas of the canton of Graub?nden it makes up the so...

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Sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso Locarno and Lago Maggiore Locarno Ticino Switzerland

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