Pleasure with an Italian accent. - Make your choice from among addresses listed in the famous guides to gastronomy, vegetarian restaurants, those that offer an international cuisine, characteristic Ticinese "grotto", pizzerias and simple family-run establishments, where one can enjoy a good local risotto or a steaming polenta with stew. In a land of Italian culture and traditions, let yourselves be seduced by the pleasures of the table. There are genuine cheeses from the alpine pastures, the famous Merlot wines, tasty salamis and mortadellas, fresh pasta, ravioli or delicious panettoni and amaretti. These are only some of the local specialities which you will find in specialised shops or can buy directly from the producers. (Ask someone local: they will point you in the right direction!) The cuisine is mainly Italian, and the life style and shopping habits are too: Lake Maggiore cultivates a passion for the beautiful and for the pleasures that life has to offer, while always remaining attentive to the quality of service. The characteristic lanes of Ascona and the Lombard arcades of Locarno offer a number of temptations: fashion boutiques, shops with international luxury items or with the creations of local artisans, galleries exhibiting small treasures, department stores, souvenir shops and bars where you can enjoy a real espresso, a home-made ice-cream or a long drink to be sipped slowly sitting on the terrace and watching (an amusing pastime!) the crowd passing by in front of the tables. These are the small pleasures in life, and they are also when the sun goes down: bars, nightclubs, discos, popular places for the young, and trendy settings for an evening of light heartedness and music. And if you want to try your luck you can always slip into the fascinating Art Déco atmosphere of the Grand Casino Locarno. Here the night is long and the game is a gamble. Rather like life.
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