Take a paddle boat at Avoca Lake and marvel at the easy going beauty of the surrounds.

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Lake Lugano is set in a valley of extraordinary beauty, half in Italy and half in Switzerland.

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The mountain and lake landscape is certainly peaceful, like stepping back hundreds of years in time, and is pristine in its beauty.

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