Locarno

Locarno is a city located on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona. It has a population of about 15,000.

An important film festival, the "Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Locarno", takes place every year in August in the Piazza Grande.

The Locarno Treaties were signed here in 1925.

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