SWITZERLAND & AUSTRIA SWISS LAKES DESTINATIONS


Italian-influenced architecture. Recommend visiting at the end of June for the Lugano Jazz Festival, when a string of open- air concerts take to the streets, or in October for the ‘Festa d’Autunno’, celebrating local food and wine. Nearby, the fishing villages of Morcote and Gandria are well worth a look-in too; the latter, all quaint walled courtyards and historic narrow lanes, has barely changed in a century and provides a glimpse into the region at its most traditional. For clients looking to combine


ABOVE: Lake Lugano


LEFT: Lake Lucerne


w LAKE LUGANO For a taste of Italian Switzerland, suggest the glacial Lake Lugano, located in the Ticino canton on the south coast and a stone’s throw from Como. Warm weather, Italian cuisine and verdant mountains give it a distinctly


Mediterranean feel and there’s plenty to keep clients occupied thanks to vineyard tours, cooking classes and water sports alongside hiking and e-biking. The city of Lugano itself, set on the northern shore, is chock-full of art galleries and


the lakes into one, suggest a multi-centre rail journey. Great Rail Journeys’ Grand Tour of Switzerland combines Lugano with Lucerne, St Moritz and beyond, offering idyllic vistas over glistening waters, dramatic slopes and bottle-green valleys from the comfort of the Bernina and William Tell Express (from £2,995).


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PICTURES: SWISS-IMAGE.CH/URSWYSS; TICINO TURISMO/REMY STEINEGGER


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