Church · Lugano, Ticino
Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Lugano
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
The Cathedral of San Lorenzo is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Lugano, on Via Cattedrale in Lugano, a church with a Renaissance façade that became a cathedral in 1888.
Why go
The Cathedral of San Lorenzo is the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Lugano. The diocese's history page says Pope Leo XIII's bull 'Ad universam' of 7 September 1888 raised the parish and collegiate church of San Lorenzo to a cathedral, and the city's history page says the first sure trace of a community at Lugano is a document of 875 that names 'Sancti Laurenti in Luano'. Lugano Region, the regional tourism board, says the church is recorded as a parish in 818 and as a collegiate church in 1078, that most of its masonry is Romanesque, and that its façade was built between 1500 and 1517; inside it describes frescoes, Baroque decoration, the Chapel of the Madonna delle Grazie and a baptismal font dated 1430. The diocese's history page records bishops' ordinations held in the cathedral; the diocese publishes no visiting rules, so none are stated here.
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Church
Santa Maria degli Angioli, Lugano
Santa Maria degli Angioli is a church on Piazza Bernardino Luini in Lugano, once part of a Franciscan convent, with Bernardino Luini's fresco of the Crucifixion and Passion on the screen wall between its nave and choir.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Gallery
MASI Lugano
MASI Lugano, the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, is an art museum in Lugano that brings together the collections of the City of Lugano and the Canton of Ticino, with its main venue in the LAC cultural centre on Piazza Bernardino Luini and a second venue in Palazzo Reali.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Park
Parco Ciani
Parco Ciani is the City of Lugano's public park on the lakeshore in the city centre, reaching the mouth of the Cassarate river, with Villa Ciani inside it.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Mountain
Monte Brè
Monte Brè is a mountain above Lake Lugano, inside the municipality of Lugano, with the village of Brè below its summit and a funicular from Cassarate run by the Società Funicolare Cassarate-Monte Brè SA.
3 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ