This year the Queens Birthday Party Cocktails were held at our fast becoming venue of choice – The Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola on 6th June where we were treated to some very tasty nibbles in the delightful Sala del Camino as our idea of holding the party in the grounds as originally planned were thwarted […]
There was a small party of us wending our way like many a pilgrimaged before us up up up the hillside of Monte di S. Maria di Albigorio. We drove through the clouds and nestling, hidden among the trees above Tesserete, we found the Convento Santa Maria del Bigorio. Today it is a place of […]
We were lucky enough to be able to visit this beautiful garden in Vico Morcote both in March and on two occasion a month later in April. We saw the full range of magnolias, and camellias in March in good weather. Then in April when it was much warmer we saw the wonderful selection of […]
On a lovely sunny autumn day in Ticino, a group of members made their way to see the show of birds in flight at the Falconeria in Locarno and what a show it was. Falcons, owls, vultures and eagles and other birds of prey flew directly overhead from one trainer to another – always being […]
We held our first event of the season, with the tea or drinks get-together on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola, at their Banana Bar or in the Giardinetto for those needing to keep out of the sun. What a wonderful afternoon spent on the lovely Banana Bar terrace, Lugano, in the company […]
We shall remember our spring lunch at the Gallo d’Oro as it was the last time that seventeen members from the Ticino were able to meet and enjoy a happy occasion together. I brought 3 bottles of sanitizing gel with me to put on the tables and there was no hand shaking or physical contact, […]
Art Loving members of the Ticino BRA made their way to Milan, climbed the palatial stone staircase of the Palazzo Reale, passed through ceiling to floor curtains, along darkened bejewelled lit corridors, feeling a bit like Alice, as the world became smaller and spaces more intimate. We had come to see a Modern Private Art […]
We had our Autumn Lunch on a beautiful day at the Osteria Gallo d’Oro. We were twenty with 18 members and 2 guests. One of the guests has been offered membership of BRA by the person who invited her to the lunch, as a gift and is in the process of applying to become a […]
Members of BRA were invited on 8 November by the Italian group from Genoa (or with links to Genoa), the ‘Liguri’ to a video showing presented by Aldo Osti. He had the video made with english subtitles on the work of the restoration of the ‘Resurrezione’ by Piero della Francesca in San Sepolcro, with which […]
A contingent of 13 BRA members from Ticino went North by train to meet up with our Vice Chairman Angela Meier Jones and her group coming from the North West region for our cultural day out. The 9th of October was a very wet Autumnal day outside, but nobody had to brave the elements. Instead, […]