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In the first two weeks of August on Piazza Grande, biggest open air screen in Europe. August.
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. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators.
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A heart of the city centre and the major shopping area.
Old town
Visconti Castle
A castle which today serves as Municipal and Archaeological Museum.
Take a historical funicular up to the old monastery of the Santuario della Madonna del Sasso and cable car station, from where you can take the cable car above the town to approx 1,600 m and then a chair lift to near the top of Monte Cardada and walk a bit further up to get to its summit or walk back down into the town via the monastery and a stone pathway (about 30 minutes to walk down). The views from the summit are extraordinary.
Casa Rusca Gallery