The Italian congregation at Zürich was composed principally of refugees from Locarno.

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.

Treaties of " mutual guarantee " are international compacts, e. g., the Treaty of Locarno which guarantees each signatory against attack from another.

Looking down from atop the Verzasca Dam bungee tower near Locarno in Ticino, Switzerland

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

Ticino River from Locarno to Bellinzona, Passo San Jorio ( 2. 010 m ) and San Jorio valley till to Gravedona divide them from the Lugano Prealps ( south ).

His involvement with this group led to his losing academic credits (" The First Duty "), when a squadron-mate was killed attempting a dangerous and prohibited flight maneuver and, under pressure from the team leader Nick Locarno, Crusher abetted the squadron's efforts to cover up the truth.

It drains most of the canton, flowing from the northwest through the Bedretto valley and the Leventina valley to enter Lake Maggiore near Locarno.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

Once France had abandoned its allies in Eastern Europe as the price of better relations with the Reich, this would create a situation where the Poles and Czechoslovaks having no Great Power ally to protect them, would be forced to adjust to German demands, and hence in Chamberlain's view would peacefully hand over the territories claimed by Germany such as the Sudetenland, the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig ( modern Gdańsk, Poland ) In this way, promoting territorial revisionism in Eastern Europe in Germany ’ s favour was one of Chamberlain's principal reasons for Locarno, and thus Locarno was from the British viewpoint an early instance of Appeasement.

Together with Aristide Briand of France, Chamberlain and Stresemann met at the town of Locarno in October 1925 and signed a mutual agreement ( together with representatives from Belgium and Italy ) to settle all differences between the nations by arbitration and never resort to war.

One notable exception from the Locarno arrangements was, however, the Soviet Union, which foresaw western détente as potentially deepening its own political isolation in Europe, in particular by detaching Germany from its own understanding with Moscow under the April 1922 Treaty of Rapallo.

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.

There were several castles from the Early Middle Ages in Locarno.

Cereals and salt came from the Lombardy and Piedmont to Locarno, while Locarno and its hinterland ( especially the Maggia Valley ) provided large quantities of wood and cattle to Italy.

In the following decades, the growth rates were below those of other population centers of the canton, which, unlike Locarno, benefited directly from the Gotthard railway.

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.

Other Swiss artists of the period included R & B act The Nightbirds from Locarno, light rock stars The Wild Gentlemen, The Blue Sounds and pop band Marco Zappa & the Teenagers.

After the film's publicity in Locarno, the director, Ashutosh Gowarikar said that distributors from Switzerland, Italy, France, Netherlands, North Africa, Finland and Germany were wanting to purchase the distribution rights.

* 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.

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.

Together with the rest of the Confederation, Uri shared in the conquest and rule over a number of subject territories under the administration of several cantons including ; 1415-1712 Baden, 1460-1798 Thurgau, 1482-1798 Sargans, 1491-1798 Rheintal, 1512-1798 Locarno, the Maggia valley, Lugano and Mendrisio and 1532-1712 the Freiamt including the Upper Freiamt between 1712-98.

At least one of the main reasons Britain promoted the Locarno Pact of 1925, besides to promote Franco-German reconciliation, was because of the understanding that if Franco-German relations improved, France would gradually abandon the Cordon sanitaire, as the French alliance system in Eastern Europe was known between the wars.

The principal treaty concluded at Locarno was the " Rhineland Pact " between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Italy.

Locarno contributed to the worsening of atmosphere between Poland and France ( despite the French-Polish alliance ), and introduced distrust between Poland and Western countries.

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.

The Roman city that became Locarno was therefore between the Vicus of Muralto and this cemetery.

Several Locarno families, including members of the Capitanei di Locarno and Simone da Orello, played an important role in the battles between the two factions.

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.

The springs are near the Cristallina mountain and the river runs through the Val Sambuco, the Val Lavizzara, and the Valle Maggia, and enters Lago Maggiore between Ascona and Locarno.

Following the death of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447, Bellinzona was in the middle of the succession crisis between Franchino Rusca of Locarno and Heinrich of Val Mesolcina, who were allied with Uri and the Ambrosian Republic in Milan.

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

It is situated on the Centovalli mountain railway route between Domodossola and Locarno and is home to a pilgrimage church.

" Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Marquess of Crewe and Anglo-French Relations, 1924-1928 ," Contemporary British History, ( March 2011 ) 25 # 1 pp 49 – 64, argues that Crewe gave Chamberlain key ideas about French security and disarmament policy, the implementation of the Geneva Protocol, the Treaty of Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

In this way, promoting territorial revisionism in Eastern Europe in Germany ’ s favor was one of the principal British objects of Locarno, making Locarno an early instance of appeasement.

Britain and the Treaty of Locarno ," Twentieth Century British History, ( Jan 1995 ) 6 # 1 pp 1-22

Stresemann negotiated the Locarno Treaties with Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium.

Although the SFIO had opposed sports as a " bourgeois " activity of the " leisure class ", it changed attitude during the Popular Front first of all because its social reforms permitted to the workers ' to participate in such leisure activities, and also because of the increasing risks of a confrontation with Nazi Germany, in particular after the March 1936 remilitarization of the Rhineland, in contradiction with the 1925 Locarno Treaties which had been reaffirmed in 1935 by France, Great Britain and Italy allied in the Stresa Front.

* Piotr Wandycz France and her eastern allies, 1919 – 1925: French-Czechoslovak-Polish relations from the Paris Peace Conference to Locarno, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.

Poincaré returned to power, and France remained committed to the Locarno Treaties ( which had isolated the Soviet state on the international stage ).

* 1935: the UK, Italy and France re-affirm the Treaty of Locarno and agree to form the Stresa front to combat and contain Nazi Germany.

Seeckt strongly opposed the Locarno Treaties which he viewed as appeasement of France and was sceptical of German membership of the League of Nations because he believed it was compromising Germany's connections with the Soviet Union.

Also in 1925, Germany broke their European diplomatic isolation and took part in the Locarno Treaties with France and Belgium, undertaking not to attack them.

* 5 October-16 October-The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, and Germany agree to the established western borders and signs mutual assistance pacts in order to stabilize Germany's eastern borders at the Locarno Conference.

Carr noted that because of the Locarno Treaties, for which Stresemann was a co-winner of the Nobel peace prize, Bernhard devoted most of the papers in Stresemanns Vermächtnis to Stresemann's work with relations to Britain and France.

Between 1987 and 2005 the group performed in many European countries, including France ( Strasbourg, Lille, Paris, Nantes, Confolens, Reims, Millou, Donquerg ), Spain ( Badajoz, Cadiz ), Germany ( Nünberg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Rudolstadt, Offenburg ) Sweden ( Falun and concertour ) Finnland ( Tampere ) Dania ( Koppenhága, concertour ) Portugalia ( concertourne and Lisszabon, Porto, Evora ) Italy ( Róma, Pavia, Parma, Locarno ) Israel ( Jeruzsálem, Akko ) Austria ( Vienna, St. Gallen ) Belgium ( Gent, Brussels ) Greece ( Thessaloniki and concerttours ) Hollandia ( concertours ), England ( London ), and participated at many international festivals ( Gypsy Swing Festival of Angers, Inteatro Theater Festival in Ancona, Festival Mosaigue Gitane in Arles, Okarina Ethno Festival Slovenia, Festival di Musica da Osteria, Udine Italy, Festival of Falun, Festival of Rudolstadt, WDR Festival Köln.