Mountain · Lugano, Ticino
Monte Brè
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.
Why go
Monte Brè is a mountain above Lake Lugano whose summit lies inside the municipal boundary of Lugano. Its funicular opened in 1908, and the operator, the Società Funicolare Cassarate-Monte Brè SA, describes two sections, Lugano–Cassarate–Suvigliana and Suvigliana–Monte Brè. The operator's pages list walking and mountain-bike routes from the summit, among them a descent through Brè, Ruvigliana and Parco San Michele to Cassarate, and art works placed around the village of Brè, where the artists Pasquale Gilardi, Wilhelm Schmid and Josef Birò lived; Lugano Region adds a museum dedicated to the painter Wilhelm Schmid in the centre of the village. The operator's home page invites visitors to plan their visit in advance and says tickets can be bought online. This record is the mountain, not the funicular or the village.
Near Monte Brè
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.
2 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Lugano
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.
3 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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.
3 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.
3 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ