Walking in Ticino Valley, Lake and Mountain Walks in Southern Switzerland

Guide to 38 graded day hikes in Ticino, Switzerland, covering Lugano, Locarno (Lake Maggiore), Bellinzona and Biasca, and Airolo and the St Gotthard Pass. Routes for all abilities, ranging from 4km to 19km, highlight the best the Ticino countryside has to offer, from villages and lush valleys, to stunning mountains and gushing waterfalls.

Andrew Beattie has been writing and travelling ever since he left Oxford University with a degree in Geography. He is also the author of a cultural-historical guide to the Alps published by Signal Books. Away from the Alps, his writing has taken him to many other parts of Europe, as well as the Middle East; he has worked on books in the Rough Guides series on Switzerland, Germany, and Syria, while other books for Signal include cultural-historical guides to Prague, Cairo, the River Danube, and the Scottish Highlands.