BORDER TOUR

87,5 km - 1/2 day

START AND FINISH: Varese Al Nifontano B&B

01- PORTO CERESIO
02- LAVENA PONTE TRESA
03- LUGANO – Parco Figino
04- MELIDE
05- BRUSINO ARSIZIO
06- BESANO
07- CANTELLO

A 87 kilometres tour riding on both sides of the border. Our eyes are immediately attracted by one of the most fascinating Art Nouveau-style production sites: a short drive from Varese you meet the Poretti brewery along the Valganna Valley road. Thereafter you arrive to Porto Ceresio, one of the twenty most beautiful villages in Italy, at the Lake Lugano. You drive along the lake until Lavena Ponte Tresa - where you enter in Switzerland - and you continue until Agno
and then to the big Figino park and the Gancia shopping centre. From here you will arrive to Lugano, where you have to take a stroll along the lake. You take off again driving along the lake to Melide and Brusino Arsizio. Returned in Italy you pass the town center of Porto Ceresio on your way to the Besano Museum. Here you can admire the findings that were discovered on the Monte San Giorgio (paleontological site - Unesco World Heritage Site). On your way back to Varese you can stop in Cantello and taste the famous white asparagus.

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