Locarno FART railway station
Locarno FART railway station is a railway station that serves the city of Locarno, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It is the Swiss terminus of the cross-border metre gauge railway line from Domodossola in Italy, which opened in 1923.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: train station in Switzerland, managed by FART
- Also known as: “Locarno railway station (FART)”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Locarno railway station and Locarno Film Festival.
Locarno railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sir James, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Locarno railway station serves the city of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. However, the station is located within the adjacent municipality of Muralto, near the shore of Lake Maggiore.
Locarno Film Festival
Recreation area
Photo: Pardofestival, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. Locarno Film Festival is situated 640 metres southwest of Locarno FART railway station.
San Vittore Collegiate Church
Church
San Vittore Collegiate Church is situated 200 metres east of Locarno FART railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muralto and Locarno.
Muralto
Village
Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Locarno
Photo: BjoernEisbaer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Locarno is a city at the northern end of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. The city, along with Venice and Cannes, hosts an international film festival, the third oldest important cinema festival in the world.
Orselina
Village
Photo: Uwelino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orselina is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Locarno FART railway station
- Categories: underground railway station, dead-end railway station, break-of-gauge station, station, and transportation
- Location: Muralto, Locarno District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.17264° or 46° 10′ 22″ northLongitude
8.80253° or 8° 48′ 9″ eastElevation
205 metres (673 feet)Operator
FARTOpen location code
8FRC5RF3+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 354739910OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q17637331
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Lombard—“Locarno FART railway station” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Locarno FART”
- French: “Gare de Locarno FART”
- French: “gare de Locarno”
- French: “Locarno (FART)”
- German: “Bahnhof Locarno (FART)”
- German: “Bahnhof Locarno FART”
- Italian: “stazione di Locarno (FART)”
- Italian: “Stazione di Locarno”
- Lombard: “Locarn (FART)”
- Lombard: “Stazion de Locarn”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ca‘ Rossa and Rialto il Cinema.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Locarno FART and Locarno Stazione.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Locarno FART railway station”. Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.