Funivia Argegno-Pigra


This cable car (about 300m north of Argengo's Piazza Roma) makes the five-minute climb to the 860m-high village of tiny Pigra every 30 minutes. From the square where the cable car arrives and from the grounds of the tiny Chiesa di Santa Margherita, the views back down over the lake are quite striking.

Pigra itself warrants some wandering along its centuries-old lanes and stairways.


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