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Old Town

You can feel just how close you are to Italy when exploring Locarno's hilly Città Vecchia (Old Town), an appealing jumble of piazzas, arcades, churches and tall, shuttered Lombard houses in ice-cream colours. At its centre sits the Piazza Grande, with narrow lanes threading off in all directions, while the Castello Visconteo guards its southwestern fringes.

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