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 | | The former tobacco-growing areas in the Mendrisiotto, and the Magadino Plain, which used to be swampland before it was drained, are the main areas of fiat land that are fertile and agriculturally cultivable in the canton. |
 | | Among these are the two lakes at the foot of the Alps where the Ticino borders on Italy: Lake Maggiore, broad and majestic, nestling among the last of the Alpine foothills, and the contorted and somewhat confusing Lake Lugano, which lies between the majestic peaks of Monte Bra, San Salvatore, San Giorgio and Monte Generoso. |
 | | Incidentally, in the Ticino it is still possible to find seemingly endless and wonderfully quiet valleys filled with sunshine and sub-Alpine vegetation, crossed by extensive, if semi-overgrown, footpaths, and these can be just a few kilometres from noisy motorways, railways and all the other intrusive accoutrements of Western civilisation. |
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