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The 10 Best Specialty Museums in Canton of Ticino, Swiss Alps
This Italian-speaking region in Southern Switzerland is on the border with Italy. Bellinzona is the capital, and Lugano is the most important city in the canton, known for its beautiful waterfront, steep hillsides and gorgeous lake views. Castelgrande is a lovely medieval castle overlooking the city that has recently been restored. The Centovalli Railway is a scenic train that operates between Locarno, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, traveling through the breathtaking "Hundred Valleys." Lake Como is nearby, the home of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” George Clooney.
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1. Centro Visitatori AlpTransit San Gottardo
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
2. Museo Villa dei Cedri
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
3. Museo Vincenzo Vela
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4.5 based on 30 reviews
The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the Swiss state, in addition to Vincenzo Vela's gallery of monumental plaster casts it includes the bequests of the sculptor Lorenzo Vela (1812-97) and painter Spartaco Vela (1854-95), a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Lombard and Piedmontese paintings, hundreds of autograph drawings and one of the earliest private collections of photographs in Switzerland.
4. Museo Del Caffe
5. Fishing Museum
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
This fascinating exhibition gives us an idea of fishing from prehistoric times to today, touching upon several subjects like boat construction, the fish trade, the production of fishing nets, fish species found in our rivers and lakes, ancient fishing techniques, all this, in a relaxing environment close to the lake shore.
6. Malcantone Museum
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
7. Galleria Baumgartner
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4.5 based on 70 reviews
8. Sasso San Gottardo
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4.5 based on 115 reviews
9. Pinacoteca Casa Rusca
10. Fondazione Monte Verita
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4.5 based on 48 reviews
