Valle Maggia

The Valle Maggia (German Maggia Valley, formerly Maiental ) is a valley in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Geography

The Valle Maggia is drained by the Maggia River and extends from Locarno on Lake Maggiore, about 50 km further to the north where it ends. It branches out in the upper part in many only partially inhabited valleys. The valley and the side valleys are in the district of Valle Maggia.

Traffic

From 1907 to 1965 the Maggia Valley Railway between Locarno and Bignasco wrong in the Valle Maggia. After its closure, the route was partially used for widening the valley road. The plan was then a road tunnel in the upper Valle Leventina, but this was never realized.

Others

Max Frisch makes the protagonist of his book, Man in the Holocene appears undertake a hike from the nearby Valle Onsernone over the Passo della Garina after Aurigeno in the Maggia Valley.

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