I do not know the name of the force that does not sit comfortably in place that constantly collects and driving somewhere, driving to see something out there on the corner … There probably is not a force, a well-known object in a certain place. Canton Ticino is the best suited for all the free time on the shores of lakes, especially in the hot summer.

But no, today appeared in the plans a trip to Italy. Early morning on the way stopped at Locarno. The city is not interested, did not make any impression. Would know, even while spending did not.

From via della stazione – funicular to Satuario della Madonna del Sasso, there is an option to reach by car

The purpose of today’s trip was S. Caterina del Sasso, carved into the rock, 18 meters above sea level! The monastery can be reached in two ways: with water from Lesa, Stresa (many centuries it was the only way) or go do Leggiuno and down the stairs almost 300 steps (elevator), which was built temporarily, but there is nothing more permanent than At night time … 1170 Alberto Besozzi, a rich merchant who had miraculously escaped death in the crash of his ship during a storm and took refuge on the rock, and then, being grateful to a man in memory of the event founded a church in honor of the saint. In the XIII century. Dominicans arrived here from 1314 to 1645 by monks from a monastery run by the Milan monastery Sant’Ambrogio ad Nemus, they were replaced by the nuns of the Order of Carmelites. The specific location of the monastery in 1640, played with it a cruel joke: collapsed part of the rock, and after this event, in the name of the monastery came prefix del Sasso (stone). At present the working female monastic Benedictine monastery and at the same time a museum visit is absolutely free. The monastery is open from 8.45 am to 11.30 and from 14.45 to 17.30.

The most interesting part of the Valle Centovalli-Swiss (in Italian continuation of the valley – a val vigezzo): here, and the narrow road and a lot of sharp turns. The train from Locarno to Domodossola be parallel to the motorway. Much of its ways is by viaducts and tunnels. The route is really beautiful. Here, a few small lifts to small villages (Rasa, Corcapolo), which come to life only in the spring and summer. Currently in the plans left by hiking up to Rasa and Intragny Pioda di Crana in the fall. In several places, on roadsides met a strange construction: steel trolley wire and stretching away to somewhere up … wondered for a long time, until we saw this picture: this design a car drove up, with food packages have migrated into this truck and on a miracle, This truck went up, then the same way up and the owner of the machine