Gandria
Gandria is both a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, which forms the core of that quarter.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 275 residents
- Description: lakeside village and neighbourhood within the boundaries of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino
- Also known as: “Gandria (Lugano)”
- Postal code: 6978
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Vigilio Parish Church and Monte Brè.
Monte Brè
Peak
Monte Brè is a small mountain east of Lugano on the flank of Monte Boglia with a view of the bay of Lugano and the Pennine Alps and the Bernese Alps. It is considered one of the sunniest points in Switzerland.
Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Fedele
Church
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Fedele is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brè-Aldesago and Aldesago.
Brè-Aldesago
Village
Photo: Hadi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brè-Aldesago is a quarter of the city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It occupies the slopes and summit of Monte Brè, and contains the mountain villages of Brè, to the east of the summit, and Aldesago, to the west.
Aldesago
Neighborhood
Aldesago is a village on the western slopes of the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Brè-Aldesago quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Brè-Aldesago was an independent municipality.
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.
Gandria
- Categories: quarter of the city of Lugano, former municipality of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.00574° or 46° 0′ 21″ northLongitude
9.00278° or 9° 0′ 10″ eastPopulation
275Elevation
327 metres (1,073 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH GDAOpen location code
8FRF2243+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 20600198OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Gandria” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Гандриа”
- Cebuano: “Gandria”
- Czech: “Gandria”
- Dutch: “Gandria”
- French: “Gandria (Lugano)”
- French: “Gandria”
- German: “Gandria (Lugano)”
- German: “Gandria”
- Irish: “Gandria”
- Italian: “Gandria (Lugano)”
- Italian: “Gandria”
- Lombard: “Gandria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gandria”
- Romansh: “Gandria”
- Russian: “Гандрия”
- Swedish: “Gandria”
- Turkish: “Gandria”
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Highlights include Piazza A. Giambonini and Piazza Nisciör.
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