With more Europeans staying put this summer, Ticino’s beloved grottos are where the Swiss go to stay cool.
Ig Nobel Prize-winning research shows that painful placebos may be the best kind of all.
There’s no such thing as can’t. The pocket knife has always been very versatile.
In the northern part of Ticino and a mere 80 km from Lugano, time seems to stand still.
Anyone who has only ever been surrounded by mountains surely sometimes dreams of taking a shortcut through the hard rock face. The Swiss will have had a similar experience.
Hollywood star Orson Welles famously claimed that it was 500 years of Swiss peace and brotherly love that gave birth to the cuckoo clock. Was he right?
For almost 40 years now, “Estival”, the Ticino jazz festival, has been considered as one of the world’s most high-profile...
Inspired by Alvin Straight, star of David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Yann Gross set out on a three-month trip through the Rhône Valley.
Its rotating blade means that it only removes the required minimum – fast, precise, efficient, reliable and indestructible. A true...