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Theme Trails

Discover the closer and further surroundings area on foot thanks the theme trails in the Region of Lugano!

Journey from south to north, and you'll travel from olive groves and vineyards, across rolling plateaux, to silent forest and rugged mountains peaks.

This selection of themes itineraries will give you a taste of the extraordinary variety of walks, with a brief description, a tecnical sheet and a map where you can have an idea of the trail. What are you waiting for?

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Theme Trails – Gandria - Castagnola

The Olive Grove Trail

This path passes through an area where the remains of ancient olive trees may still be seen and in which the olive tree has just recently been re-introduced.

Length 3.17 km
Duration 1 h
Height difference 137 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Arosio - Breno

The Chestnut Tree Trail

A Thematic path crossing five villages in the Alto Malcantone region, passing through woodlands with chestnut trees, birches, creeks and fields. Moreover, one can admire the view of the various villages and glimpse a panorama reaching until Monte Rosa.

Length 9.5 km
Duration 2 h 54'
Height difference 442 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Carona

Tematic paths of San Grato park

62.000 sq. meters with the largest and most varied collection of azaleas, rhododendrons and conifers of the entire Insubric Region.

Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Monte Lema - Forcola - Miglieglia

Between sky and earth

A way of approaching nature that permits one to observe its ecosystem and understand its evolution.

Length 8.37 km
Duration 2 h 20'
Height difference 82 m
Requirements medium
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Monte San Salvatore

Monte San Salvatore Nature trail

Discover the fascinating wonders of the nature of Monte San Salvatore, located few steps away form the city.

Length 1.6 km
Duration 35'
Height difference 105 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Monte Lema

On the way of alpine pastures

The five excursions take us from the summit of Monte Lema on the floor through the mountain pastures in a suggestive rural naturalistic landscape, rich in history and emotions between scents of rhododendrons and majestic beech woods, historical chestnut woods and old buildings as evidence of past labors.

Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Sonvico – Rosone – Monte Roveraccio – Sonvico

The Historical Sonvico Nature Trail

The comparison between past and present, at every step of the way, will make us more aware of the delicate and complex relationship between living organisms and the surrounding nature.

Length 9.44 km
Duration 3 h
Height difference 397 m
Requirements medium
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Novaggio – Maglio di Aranno – Novaggio

The Trail of Marvels

This trail leads you to the discovery of dry walls, windmills, corn grinding mills, castles, old brickworks and mines.

Length 6.7 km
Duration 2 h 10'
Height difference 383 m
Requirements medium
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Caslano

The Natural Park of Monte Caslano

An educational path with didactic information about the flora and fauna of Monte Caslano. Along the trail one can stop to admire the view of the Gulfs of Caslano and Agno, the Strait of Lavena Ponte Tresa and Italian territories.

Length 4.4 km
Duration 1 h 25'
Height difference 259 m
Requirements medium
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Ponte Capriasca – Tesserete – Origlio – Ponte Capriasca

The “Storytelling” Trail

Along this trail you’ll be able to discover local stories, legends and to have the possibility of discovering and appreciating the enchanting Capriasca region.

Length 11.77 km
Duration 3 h 30'
Height difference 468 m
Requirements easy
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Brè

Art presences

We propose that the larger public get acquainted with this charming little village.

Length 0.8 km
Duration 15'
Height difference 44 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Molinazzo (Ramello) – Monteggio – Termine – Sessa – Ramello

The Water Trail Revisited

This itinerary aims at highlighting the tokens of past history and of the natural environment and proposes much food for thought on the relationship between man and water in the past and in the present.

Length 9.24 km
Duration 2 h 50'
Height difference 359 m
Requirements easy
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Castelrotto – Ronco – Beride – Castelrotto

Man’s Traces

An ideal combination of culture, history and nature along the circular path that connects the picturesque villages of Castelrotto and Beride.

Length 3.54 km
Duration 1 h
Height difference 157 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Lamone – Origlio – Taverne

The San Zeno Nature Path

This educational path was created with the idea of getting as many peoples as possible to come in contact with nature.

Length 5.6 km
Duration 1 h 40'
Height difference 267 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Vico Morcote

The path of the senses

Designed for everyone to rediscover the joy of experiencing nature with our senses: smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing and touching it.

Length 1.9 km
Duration 40'
Height difference 120 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Gandria – Brè

Gandria’s archeological and nature trail

This didactical trail offers you the possibility to approach nature and the history of this region in the most ideal of ways.

Length 7.3 km
Duration 3 h
Height difference 766 m
Requirements medium
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Tesserete – Sala Capriasca – Vaglio – Cagiallo – Tesserete

Sensations in Capriasca/Unitas

Envisaged for the blind or for those with eyesight problems but at disposition of everyone!

Length 5.77 km
Duration 1 h 30'
Height difference 148 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Tesserete – San Clemente – Tesserete

ArtInBosco

Artinbosco is a unique exhibition itinerary of its kind: it is born from the gathering between art and nature but evolves with the changing of the seasons and the passing of time in a deep symbiosis with the environment that welcomes it.

Length 3 km
Duration 50'
Height difference 125 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Tesserete – Cagiallo – Lugaggia – San Clemente – Vaglio – Sala Capriasca – Bigorio – Tesserete

Walking in Capriasca

The thematic path in mid-Capriasca is an opportunity to rediscover the natural landscape, its animal and plant world, its historical-cultural roots and the different contexts of the lives of its inhabitants.

Length 10.85 km
Duration 3 h
Height difference 390 m
Requirements easy
Conditions medium
Theme Trails – Montagnola – Gentilino – Montagnola

On Hermann Hesse’s Footsteps

This itinerary leads you to certain points of the landscape on the Collina d'Oro (Golden Hill), which were especially dear to the poet and that are reflected in his works.

Length 4.2 km
Duration 1 h 10'
Height difference 144 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
Theme Trails – Rivera – Quartino

The historical Montecenerino trail

A route with an atmosphere from a bygone age.

Length 6.47 km
Duration 1 h 51'
Height difference 200 m
Requirements easy
Conditions easy
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