Those on the lookout for a chic holiday destination or a new place to call home would be wise to turn to the Lugano region. The Swiss city, and its surrounding region in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, is brimming with lively lidos, verdant streetscapes and evergreen cultural gems. Monocle rounds up the Lugano region in 10 virtues for you to discover (or rediscover) when you visit.
Visitors have not always been kind to Bergamo. Most of us still place it as Milan-Bergamo after its airport (actually it’s Il Caravaggio Orio al Serio International Airport), and this year we saw it as the Covid-19 gateway to Europe.
The pandemic hit Lombardy hard and early; the world watching in horror as its grip fastened last February and March – a preview of things to come. It was a surreal light to shine on Bergamo, a medieval city in the Alpine foothills, suddenly portrayed not as a bustling cultural and historical hub, but through rolling television coverage of empty cobbled streets, eerie churches and boarded shutters.