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?
Neither New Zealand nor the Pyrenees – Ticino is the canyoning paradise in Europe. With over 40 canyoning routes in wild...
In recent days the SNB has introduced and put into circulation the new 50 franc banknote. This is the first...
The Locarno Film Festival, scheduled for 3-13 August, will be starting soon. As has now become a tradition, the tranquil...
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.
The Swiss spaghetti-tree hoax, aired on the BBC in 1957, was televised proof that Ticino, Switzerland is the best place to harvest spaghetti from trees.
Cheesemakers have known since forever that many factors act together to transform a few types of milk into a vast variety of cheese. But what about sound?
The area was even once voted the Swiss countryside of the year. Which brought with it a bit of notoriety...
It was night-time over the Atlantic, on a red-eye flight from New York to London, and Alessandro Merga (27) would...