Lugano is a modern and vital city, a real financial capital, that hasn't lost,
though, its romantic and elegant nature. The city centre is a tangle of narrow
characteristic streets with arcades, placed around the vital “Piazza Riforma”.
Via Nassa is the characteristic shopping street, where people can buy precious
jewels and articles of the most prestigious brands, such as Cartier, Ermenegildo
Zegna, Hermès, Louis Vuitton...
Lugano is also an important cultural pole. Each month museums and art galleries
host interesting and authoritative international exhibitions. In this context
the name of Mario Botta emerges as a light for the whole world contemporary
architecture. Lugano is a real jewel able to combine efficiency and swiss high
standard of living to the sunny joy of living wich is typical of the mediterranean
regions.