In 1995, he directed Guimba ( The Tyrant ), which won special jury prizes at the International Film Festival of Locarno, and l ' Etalon de Yennenga (" Stallion of Yennenga ") at FESPACO ( the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou ).

* 1925 – World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.

It is possible to reach Switzerland via a normal road that crosses Oriental Piedmont starting from Arona and ending in Locarno, on the border with Italy.

This jump, made without guide ropes, is from the top of the Verzasca Dam near Locarno, Switzerland.

Loves of a Blonde is one of best – known movies of Czechoslovak New Wave and has been rewarded on the Venice and Locarno film festivals.

The city of Locarno is host to the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland's most prestigious film festival.

From 1795 to 1797 he governed ( for the Swiss Confederation ) the Italian-speaking districts of Lugano, Locarno, Mendrisio and Val Maggia, of which he published ( 1797 ) a pleasing description, and into which he is said to have introduced the cultivation of the potato.

The official language of Locarno is Italian.

Locarno is first mentioned in 807 as Leocarni.

Since 1987, the only German language newspaper in Ticino, the Tessiner Zeitung, is published three times each week in Locarno.

Locarno is located on the left shore of Lake Maggiore.

The age distribution,, in Locarno is ; 1, 205 children or 7. 9 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1, 454 teenagers or 9. 6 % are between 10 and 19.

It is approximately comparable in size to other major European festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno.

Ronco sopra Ascona is a municipality near Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

The municipality is located in the Locarno district.

Locarno in Switzerland, with its mild Mediterranean climate, is famous for its bougainvilleas.

Lake Maggiore is the most westerly of the three great prealpine lakes of Italy, it extends for about 70 km between Locarno and Arona.

Locarno is bypassed with the 5-km long Mappo-Morettina tunnel.

Arona is the southernmost port on Lake Maggiore, and transport by boat or hydrofoil is available to both sides of the lake up to the Swiss city of Locarno.

Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

The history of Ascona during the Middle Ages is closely linked with that of Locarno.

It is believed that in the 6th Century, the Castle of San Michele was the site of a curia ( court ) and the seat of a sculdascio ( Lombardic for officer ) of the county of Stazzona, who exercised control over the entire parish of Locarno.

Until 1878 the three largest cities, Bellinzona, Lugano and Locarno, alternated as capital of the canton.

* Locarno with capital Locarno

Locarno was the capital of the canton in 1821-27, 1839 – 45, 1857 – 63 and 1875-81.

From that date until 1878, Bellinzona, Lugano, and Locarno, took turns being capital every six years.

* Locarno with capital Locarno

The road from Locarno through the valley leads to others: the Valley of Bosco Gurin, Val Lavizzara, Val di Campo, Val Bavona, Valle di Peccia, Val Sambuco, all part of the Vallemaggia district.

* Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

The village is located in the Vallemaggia district, about from Locarno.

Brissago is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

It became part of the Bailiwick of Locarno, but remained a special judicial district with its own Podestà.

Under the Helvetic Republic it was part of the district of Locarno.

The municipality is located in the Locarno district, on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

The municipality is located in the Locarno district, in the lower Onsernone valley, about from Locarno.

The municipality is located in the Locarno District, on the right bank of the Maggia delta.

* Hydrofoils are regularly operated on the three major Italian Lakes by branches of Ministry Of Transportation: Navigazione Lago Maggiore services routes on the Lake Maggiore between Locarno and Arona, Navigazione Lago di Como services routes on the Lake Como and Navigazione Lago di Garda services routes on the Lake Garda.

Remarque married actress Paulette Goddard in 1958 and they remained married until his death in Locarno on 25 September 1970, aged 72.

The Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino provides the urban and suburban bus network of Locarno, operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa on behalf of the owning companies, and, together with an Italian company, the Centovalli and Vigezzina Railway which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno with the Simplon trans-Alpine route.

* in Switzerland: Bellinzona, Locarno ( on Lake Maggiore ).

Despite the importance to history of these pressing issues, Chamberlain ’ s reputation chiefly rests on his part in the negotiations over what came to be known as the Locarno Pact of 1925.

The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5 October – 16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 3 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with defeated Germany ( which was, by this time, the Weimar Republic ).

Ratifications for the Locarno treaties were exchanged in Geneva on 14 September 1926, and on the same day they became effective.

Proposals in 1934 for an " eastern Locarno " pact securing Germany's eastern frontiers foundered on German opposition and on Poland's insistence that its eastern borders should be covered by any western guarantee of her borders.

Germany formally repudiated its Locarno undertakings by sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland on 7 March 1936.

* Summerhill Primary School-located in Central Avenue, Tibbington, on the merger of Locarno Primary School and Prince's End Primary School.

The Einsteins both left Zurich for Berlin in late March, on the way Einstein visited an uncle in Antwerp and then Ehrenfest and Lorentz in Leiden while Marić took a holiday with the children in Locarno, arriving in Berlin in mid-April.

The FART ( Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi – Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino ) provides the urban and suburban bus network of Locarno, Switzerland, operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa on behalf of the owning companies, and, together with the Italian company Società Subalpina di Imprese Ferroviarie S. p. A. ( SSIF ) the Centovalli and Vigezzina Railway which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno railway station with the Simplon trans-Alpine route at Domodossola, Italy.

A formal request for the licensing of a rail network was made by the mayor of Locarno, Francesco Balli, in 1898, but although construction of the Centovalli Railway was begun in May 1913, the collapse of the financing bank later that year, together with the intervention of the First World War meant that construction was not resumed until August 1921, with the line being constructed from each end and meeting on 27 March 1923 and public service being inaugurated on 25 November 1923.