Lake Lugano Live Cam

Beautiful quasi-Mediterranean Scenery

The Lake Lugano region is a bi-national melting pot of contrasting European cultures enjoying a unique social and financial climate. It’s lakeside cafes and Grottos host Swiss bankers and International travelers dining on pasta and red wine. It’s Swiss medical system is the finest in the world. It boasts a relaxed and sophisticated environment where no crime exists.

The quality of life is excellent. Leisure activities are abundant: Golf, tennis, horseback riding, water-skiing, and snow-skiing. Water-ski on Lake Lugano in the morning, lunch at a lakeside café and snow-ski in St. Moritz in the afternoon. And the region is as well known for its secure investment climate as it is for its weather!

Porlezza is an important tourist center situated at the head of Lake Lugano, surrounded by the valleys of Menaggio, Carvagna, Intelvi and Valsolda. Porlezza is just 15 - 20 minutes’ drive from Lugano to the east, whose airport offers connecting flights to Zurich, Frankfurt, Paris and Rome. Milan, with its International Airport, is 75 km to the south. Menaggio, on Lake Como, is 6 km to the east. Across the lake, just 15 minutes by boat from Lugano is the Municipality of Campione d’Italia, a well-known tax haven called ‘the Swiss-Backdoor’.

Switzerland’s most famous ski resort, is 1˝ hours drive to the north. Other ski resorts are a short 20-minute drive from Lugano. Tourists from all over the world enjoy Porlezza’s Mediterranean-type climate with seven months of summer. It offers a variety of water sports, five famous golf courses, tennis, soccer, horseback riding, etc. There are well-appointed shopping villages, prestige hotels and fine restaurants. Visit its famous ‘Grottos’, family-owned restaurants serving home-style local cuisine, many of which are over 200 years old. Shop in the Historic Center and at the local Artisan’s Market.

The Rural Oratory of St. Maurizio of the 10th-12th centuries, the lime oven, and the marble carving of St. Marco’s Lion in the village of Cima.

Switzerland is a relatively small country located in Central Europe and also it's most montainous area. The climate is temperate, so summers are mild and winters are cold with heavy snowfalls. The country is fit for both skiing, hiking, bathing, or visiting castles and cities.

Switzerland is famous for the Swiss watches which are made by incredible precision for always showing the exact time. Most famous brands are: Rolex, Cartier, Swatch and Omega. Other speciality of the country is Swiss chocolate. Main factories are located in Switzerland and they provide chocolate for all over the world. Main brands are: Nestle, Toblerone and Lindt. Switzerland is suit for many kind of sports. For example ice-skating, bob, ice-hockey, petanque, rafting, curling, there are also large golf fields and the mountains are good for hiking or skiing (which is the most popular sport of the land). Football is also popular all over the country.

If you visit Zürich with luxurious need, go to the Renessaince Hotel which is amazingly posh and furnished with everything you need or just imagine. The hotel is located at the suburb so for easy transport you should take a taxi to the centre.

Visiting Switzerland you are not an explorer but a guest who enjoys elegance and high-quality style walking among large mountains. The country is very rich so it is popular for kings, divas, pop-stars and other idols to visit. Switzerland is worth to travel around by train. The trains are precise like Swiss watches and you can reach every little segment of the country. You just sit leisurely and observe the landscape like a beautiful nature-movie.