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Leventina

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Leventina 

a mountain valley in southern Switzerland. It stretches from the population center of Airolo (at the St. Gotthard Pass) to the point where the Ticino River (a tributary of the Po) empties into Lago Maggiore. A section of the Milan (Italy)—Zurich (Switzerland) railroad runs through the valley.



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Coming from the north, we stop in Biasca, where the mighty mountains of the Leventina first begin to open out onto warmer, more southerly climes.
 
 
 
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