Lugano and Gandria in Switzerland’s Ticino

[@canuckpeoplerule]

Dennis you are my favourite tour guide. Better than rick steves. He always pushes his religious views & worse speaks as if it’s fact. The things you do so well is give info others don’t. Like prices for stuff, whether the disabled can & or can’t go, most of all there’s so many places & buildings I badly want to see inside and so many others don’t take you inside but you do. Please keep making these great videos because I watch them all many times. My parents are taking their 1st trip to Europe and I’m nervous as they’re elderly so do you have a website where they can get info about you and tours you do and so on? I would feel a lot better if they went with someone experienced like yourself. Thanks very much for these fantastic videos, it’s the closest I can get without actually going!

[@denniscallan]

Thank you so very much for that nice comment. That's why I keep making the movies, to entertain while providing useful information about where to go, what to see...Yes, I do lead a couple of tours to Europe each year that you can read about on my website: toursbytrain.com/index.html Thanks again!

[@georgekenna9351]

I really appreciated your tour. What you do is something that I wish everyone did and that was include maps pointing out where you are. I have been to Lugano but didnt spend much time there but returning in September and your video and complimentary audio was really great.

[@denniscallan]

I am so grateful to read your comment, thanks very much. I make every effort to explain the place, show you how to get around, and describe what there is to see. Maps are important, and lately I have been enhancing it, along with the www.openstreetmap.org/ using Google My Maps, extremely handy for getting around. I have not yet added that to Lugano and various other previous videos, but have many such maps on my main website: townsofeurope.com/

[@tarfanfant3118]

One of my favorite places on earth :) ♥ Lugano ♥ can't wait to go back !!

[@carlosacta8726]

Love your narration!

[@Albert-Ramhash]

Thanks. I'll visit here soon.

[@lizzelaya1929]

I love this place ❤

[@j.merkel2313]

Great Videos, thanks for sharing

[@eddenoy321]

In my youth I spent the night in a very large and old estate that was being used as a youth hostel.I did not linger in Lugano,but finally many years later you gave me the chance to see the town. I guess that it was a retirement haven mainly for Europeans at that time and today likely attracts retired people from all over the world. Nostalgic for me to see this.Thank you.

[@sydneydaramy5453]

That was beautiful I enjoyed it 0

[@sth.777]

The domed villa shown at 20:43 is not the Favorita, but Villa Helios; Favorita is the Internizzi's estate, shown at 13:07.

[@denniscallan]

Thank you

[@nlbhaduri]

Bravo, well done!

[@borderreiver3288]

beautiful....

[@KaydenChannel]

Thank you for sharing your travel videos. We have been enjoying them.

[@jaskiratsingh2014]

I wish to come along with you to next trip when you're planning ....Great going

[@BenjaminHealySr]

Thanks Dennis! You make beautiful travel videos!

[@geedavey66]

Thank you so much for these wonderful videos! Very well done.....Subscribed☺

[@prakashpanchal1062]

Nicely explained

[@jesusestavoltando7697]

I love LUGANO!!!

[@eisenjeisen6262]

Thank you very much for this beautiful video

[@zemekiel]

Great video! I'm adding Lugano to my list of places to visit when going to Switzerland in September. I do disagree with one thing you said though, about no need to rent a car because of the effectiveness of the trains. I would strongly advice people to rent a car and spend a day or two driving around the amazing alpine passes in Switzerland, it's an exceptional way of experiencing the amazing scenery throughout the alps, as well as driving the best roads in the world.

[@denniscallan]

Hi zemekiel, thanks for the suggestion to drive a few days in the Alpine passes -- great idea, I should try it next time.

[@muralikrishnan3810]

Thanks for your quality travel videos :)

[@fredrighetti]

BELLA LUGANO E GANDRIA, CIAO DA FRED RIGHETTI, ITALY MILANO, BYE

[@michaelmiltz4688]

Going there in September 2023.

[@leolee4565]

wow good video .i fled i be here .

[@HafizPlunac]

Love all your videos, it is real pleasure to watch them. Although, I don't like this idea of splitting screen in 3 parts. It is overwhelming (too much going on) and hard to follow. Other than that, great work, thank you!

[@denniscallan]

Thanks for the nice thoughts and your comment about my occasional use of 3 screens...which appeals to some and not so to others. My explanation: When traveling we are surrounded with multiple visuals yet can only look at one thing at a time, so my use of multi-panels is an interpretation of that reality. When walking through a place I always make an effort to look around (and shoot) as much as possible, breaking out of tunnel vision, so this presentation is a reminder for us to keep our eyes open and moving. Multi-screens is a way to present more information in a shorter time, compressing imagery, but if it doesn't work for you just look at the large image and ignore the sidebars. I do slow down the pace of editing to facilitate viewers to browse around without missing much, and I keep the images related to each other yet slightly different. Viewers are getting used to multiple images on TV, especially news reports and commercials, so it's almost normal now. I've always been a fan of collage and multiple images so this is an extension of that. (P.S. this is also a way I can utilize older DV footage in an HD frame. Standard definition doesn't look so good when blown up to HD format, and I have lots of unused footage that would never be seen if not for this approach.)

[@matteoricucci4814]

Lugano❤❤❤🇨🇭🇮🇹🇨🇭🇮🇹🇨🇭🇮🇹

[@daraalt]

the cat made the video that much more special.

[@christopherahler4674]

SO WRONG!!! Lake Lugano is IMMACULATE. It's not at all polluted and I can't believe the maker of this video said that. If you have ever been there you can see at least 15 deep. The water is clear and amazing. It's exactly why I vacation there.

[@denniscallan]

Glad to hear you found clean water, the improvements are working. What I said in the video is "Pollution has long been a problem in Lake Lugano and they have been working on cleaning it up, putting in sewage treatment plants and other kinds of monitoring, "

[@jassack8498]

that part of Switzerland they speak Italian .

[@variorahmadian7482]

i see because maybe border/more close with Italy country correct? Geneva speak France because more close to France. Bern,Zurich,Basel speak Germany.

[@jassack8498]

@@variorahmadian7482 yes. And, only in recent history and better travel technology have the separate languages of the difficult Alps to travel through , have been meeting and procreating with each other . Today, by far, German is the largest spoken language in Switzerland

[@cyriletgegeilovethailande6641]

Ma ville

[@cyriletgegeilovethailande6641]

Vivment je part vivre la bas ral bol de sr croix

[@rolfschuepp7943]

the video is great,but the sound of the speach is vey weak,that is really bad.

[@denniscallan]

turn up your volume. There is plenty of audio level there.