Locarno

A town on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at the northeastern tip, built on the northeastern part of the Maggia delta with Ascona across the river on the southwestern side. It hosts the Locarno International Film Festival every August, with open-air screenings in the Piazza Grande, and it gave its name to the Locarno Treaties, the series of European territorial agreements negotiated here in October 1925. It is the third largest town in Ticino after Lugano and Bellinzona, and its official language is Italian.