Crossword-Solution: BELLINZONA 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Electric railways now run up the Val Blenio from Biasca to Acquarossa, half-way to Olivone; up the Val Mesocco from Bellinzona to Mesocco, and from Locarno up the Val Maggia to Bignasco.

Chapter XVII Soazza and the Valley of Mesocco I REGRET that I have not space for any of the sketches I took at Bellinzona, than which few towns are more full of admirable subjects.

Turner’s two water-colour drawings of Bellinzona in the National Gallery are doubtless very fine as works of art, but they are not like Bellinzona, the spirit of which place (though not the letter) is better represented by the background to Basaiti’s Madonna and child, also in our gallery, supposing the castle on the hill to have gone to ruin.

The least interesting part is that between Bellinzona and Roveredo, but soon after leaving Roveredo the valley begins to get narrower and to assume a more mountain character.

Chapter XIX The Mendrisiotto WE stayed a day or two at Bellinzona, and then went on over the Monte Cenere to Lugano.