Biasca Attractions

Biasca (305m/1,001ft; pop. 3,500) lies in a fertile basin in the Ticino valley, at the mouth of the Val Blenio (the valley of the Brenno), through which a road descends from the Passo del Lucomagno (Lukmanier pass); granite quarries, timber trade, railroad workshops. On the hillside is the beautiful Romanesque church of Santi Pietro e Paolo (11th-13th century; interior remodeled in 1685), from which a path with Stations of the Cross runs up to the Petronilla Chapel (384m/1,260ft) and a waterfall on the Frodalunga. To the east is the Pizzo Magno (2,298m/7,540ft).

At Biasca the road from the St Gotthard runs down the Ticino valley to Bellinzona.