Lake Lugano
Lake Lugano is a glacial lake which is situated on the border between southern Switzerland and northern Italy. The lake, named after the city of Lugano, is situated between Lake Como and Lago Maggiore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Switzerland and Italy
- Also known as: “Ceresio”, “Lago di Lugano”, “Lake of Lugano”, and “Lugano”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Cultures and Cantonal Library of Lugano.
Museum of Cultures
Museum
Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museo delle Culture di Lugano was opened on 23 September 1989 with the aim of preserving most of the ethnic art collected by Serge Brignoni and coming in particular from the Far East, India, South-East Asia, Indonesia and Oceania.
MASI Lugano
Museum
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The Swiss–Italian Art Museum, commonly known as MASI Lugano, MASILugano or MASI, is an art museum predominantly featuring 20th-century and contemporary art in Lugano, Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caprino and Castagnola.
Caprino
Hamlet
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caprino is a village on the southern shore of Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, to the east of the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia and below the summit of Sighignola.
Castagnola
Suburb
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castagnola is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, below the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.
Paradiso
Village
Photo: Pascalbrax, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paradiso is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It lies on the shore of Lake Lugano and, although administratively independent of the city of Lugano, it is surrounded on all other sides by that city.
Lake Lugano
- Categories: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland and body of water
- Location: Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Lake Lugano” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liqeni Lugano”
- Arabic: “بحيرة لوغانو”
- Armenian: “Լուգանո”
- Basque: “Luganoko aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Возера Лугана”
- Belarusian: “Лугана”
- Breton: “Lenn Lugano”
- Bulgarian: “Лугано (езеро)”
- Bulgarian: “Лугано”
- Catalan: “Llac de Lugano”
- Cebuano: “Lago di Lugano”
- Chinese: “盧加諾湖”
- Chuvash: “Лугано”
- Croatian: “Lugano”
- Czech: “Luganské jezero”
- Danish: “Luganosøen”
- Dutch: “Luganomeer”
- Dutch: “Meer van Lugano”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لوجانو”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Lugano”
- Estonian: “Lugano järv”
- Finnish: “Luganojärvi”
- French: “lac de Lugano”
- French: “Lac de Lugano”
- Galician: “Lago de Lugano”
- Georgian: “ლუგანოს ტბა”
- German: “Lago di Lugano”
- German: “Lauisersee”
- German: “Luganer See”
- German: “Luganersee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Λουγκάνο”
- Greek: “Λίμνη του Λουγκάνο”
- Hebrew: “אגם לוגאנו”
- Hungarian: “Luganói-tó”
- Icelandic: “Lugano-vatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Lugano”
- Italian: “Ceresio”
- Italian: “lago di Lugano”
- Italian: “Lago di Lugano”
- Japanese: “ルガーノ湖”
- Korean: “루가노호”
- Latin: “Ceresius lacus”
- Latin: “Ceresius”
- Latvian: “Lugāno ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Lugano ežeras”
- Lombard: “Lag de Lugan”
- Lombard: “Lagh de Lügan”
- Macedonian: “Лугано”
- Mingrelian: “ლუგანოშ ტობა”
- Northern Frisian: “Luganer Sia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luganosjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luganosjøen”
- Norwegian: “Luganosjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac de Lugano”
- Persian: “دریاچه لوگانو”
- Persian: “دریاچه لوگنو”
- Polish: “Jezioro Lugano”
- Polish: “Lago di Lugano”
- Polish: “Lugano”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Lugano”
- Romansh: “Lai da Lugano”
- Russian: “Лугано”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Lugano”
- Serbian: “Лугано”
- Serbian: “Луганско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lugano”
- Slovenian: “Ceresio”
- Slovenian: “Lago di Lugano”
- Slovenian: “Lugansko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Lugano”
- Swedish: “Luganosjön”
- Swiss German: “Luganersee”
- Tosk Albanian: “Luganersee”
- Turkish: “Lugano Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Лугано”
- Ukrainian: “Луґано”
- Urdu: “جھیل لوگانو”
- Venetian: “Łago de Ługan”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Lugano”
- Welsh: “Lago di Lugano”
- Welsh: “llyn Lugano”
- Welsh: “Llyn Lugano”
- Wu Chinese: “卢加诺湖”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Opera castellano del Castello di San Martino and Cantine di Caprino.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thyssen-Bornemisza. Fondazione and Cantonal Museum of Natural History.
Ticino: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Lugano, Bellinzona, Locarno, and Ascona.
Curious Places to Discover
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