Lavena Ponte Tresa

Lavena Ponte Tresa sits at the southern tip of Lake Lugano in Lombardy, on the border with Switzerland's Ticino canton. The town pairs a lakeside waterfront with wooded slopes rising behind it, and its neighbour across the water is the Swiss resort of Ponte Tresa, which makes it a practical base for cross-border living. Property is largely low-rise and residential, from apartments near the lake to houses on the hillsides, in a quiet setting within reach of Varese and Lugano.