Sonogno is a beautifully preserved village at the far end of Valle Verzasca, in Switzerland’s Ticino region. It retains its historic feel with stone houses, cobbled alleys, and cultural landmarks. At ...

Borrowing a model that’s already proven successful in Italy, around 30 of the village’s 70 buildings – slate-roofed, built from local Ticino granite, and centuries-old – are to to be ...

It was once an ordeal to get here, but Swiss engineering prowess has pierced a route with awe-inspiring road and rail tunnels ...

as local officials scrambled to save the village from depopulation. A fairy-tale-like hamlet in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Corippo has only one narrow road leading to it. When I ...

There are some very interesting wine villages in what is Switzerland ... train to Locarno in the southeast Swiss canton of Ticino. Ticino, one of the 26 Swiss cantons or states, is the one ...

and thus revive the fortunes of the village. Ilario Garbani restored Vergeletto's watermill in order to produce farina bóna, a sweet-flavoured flour once widely eaten across Ticino. Photograph by ...

During a recent Ticino visit, I joined a group for a less demanding, leisurely walk. From the village of Arosio, we set out on the Chestnut Trail, a walk of 10 kilometers (just over six miles ...

Only 12 inhabitants now live in the village of Corippo in the Verzasca ... 2017 An architect who once studied a small mountain community in Ticino weighs in on plans to turn it into a hotel ...

Aerial view of the Swiss town of Corippo in the Verzasca Valley.