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Article: THE SUNNY SIDE OF SWITZERLAND // To get an idea of Italian-speaking Ticino, imagine Heidi in a bikini among the palms
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- November 23, 1986
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LUGANO, Switzerland Giorgio Washington never slept here. But a bust
of our founding father - his first name blithely converted to Italian
on the inscription - graces a small Greek rotunda along the
palm-fringed lakefront promenade of Lugano, in the Swiss deep south.
The palm trees may be as much of a surprise as the
presidential bust, if your mental image of Switzerland features
glaciers, Alpine skiers, yodelers and cuckoo clocks.
Imagine Heidi in a bikini, packing down the pasta with a
cheerful "ciao," and you'll have a more accurate picture of Ticino,
the Italian-speaking Swiss canton on the sunny side of the Alps.
I spent four days at the end of October in Lugano, Ticino's ...
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