Bellinzona is in the Italian part of Switzerland and a little less than 1.5 hours away from where we live in Stans. Two weeks ago John had Friday off for All Saints Day and we wanted to go on a hike a little farther away from home. This was an excellent destination.
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| Across the valley on the hill is one of the castles |
We did a 3 hour hike, going up 1400 m, covering about 8 km and then brought a gondola back down into the town, and then had to walk 2 km back to the car.
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Our guideposts that are on all of our hikes
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The landscape seemed to be quite a bit different, at least we thought so, to the mountains by us. We were in the trees the whole time and the path was more dirt than rock, which my feet were happy about :)
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| lunch time |
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little cutie
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The town of Bellinzona has three large and fairly famous castles in the town or right on the hillside by the town plus a river that runs through it. And obviously the mountains. All of these things make it a very lovely town.
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coffee time at the top
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We are hoping to return to this location in the winter (which has started now I guess) to snowshoe as there is a 90 min loop up on the mountain that you reach with the gondola!
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| little cutie again |
I am excited to cross country ski and snowshoe.... just have to find people to watch Hannah :) as the winter sports isn't quite as toddler friendly as the summer hiking!
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| taking the gondola down, bear was nervous |
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| Farmhouses on the ride down |
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