Switzerland

A wasteland of abandoned factories, run-down buildings and seedy late-night bars. This was Kreis 5 until the beginning of the year 2000. We are in neighbourhood number five, on the western edge…

I was walking on Lake Street, the one skirting the Pasquart district, when I saw it standing out at my left. The Reformed Evangelic Parish of Pasquart is an impressive New Gothic…

The Church of Saint Elizabeth is an unexpected sight presenting itself before you even got into the old town. Its bell tower rises over the squat body of the building and stands…

In Switzerland ‘summer’ is a thin idea, a quick chapter of two or three weeks between the everlasting winter. But it has rarely been so mean of sun and warmth as this…

Some flavours remind us to our childhood. For me one of those flavours is chocolate. But not just any chocolate… Swiss chocolate. Swiss chocolate tradition dates back to 17th century, in Ticino.…

‘How old are you?’ ‘Seventeen… more or less.’ Ali doesn’t know his exact age, because he doesn’t know when he was born. I met him on a train from Milan to Zurich.…

In my opinion, there are two kinds of travellers: two one looking for hot temperatures even in winter and the one enjoying the magic sensations offered by the Frost Wizard. I am…

Living close to Milan without ever having been to Switzerland is almost impossible. That’s why, when I got invited to spend a few days in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of the…

Take a rainy day in Switzerland. No lake, no trip through the woods, no trekking in the mountains. I went to town. The accurate train of the Swiss railway service leaves every…