Today was our last day of travel. We made it a joint trip with PGS to go see the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, Switzerland. It was about 2 hours north of Riva San Vitale. The church was designed by Mario Botta and completed in 1996. It replaced a church from 1626 that was leveled by an avalanche in 1986. The church looks really nice or so I assume if it wasn't covered in scaffolding. Workers were in the process of renovating it while we were there but that didn't stop us from sneaking in. A handful of us got our pictures before being yelled at in Italian and kicked out. It was still nice to see though.
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| Interior view |
The rest of the day was spent hiking between a couple villages. Daniela likes to take the Villa on this end of the year hike and today wasn't any different. It was a beautiful day to go too. We made our way through a series of houses made from rocks. They were very nicely made and we even go to go inside one. There was a sense of modern meets old construction. We were old they are vacation homes.
We finally made it to the end of the hike to see this gorgeous waterfall. It is called Foroglio Waterfall in the Bavona Valley. The water plunges 360 feet off the side of the cliff. It has been called the most beautiful in Ticino. There is also a restaurant near the base of the waterfall. We all got to relax a bit and take pictures of the waterfall. It was a nice way to end the semester.
I leave on Wednesday to go back home.
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