Museo Hermann Hesse

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This museum showcases German-born Swiss poet, novelist and painter Herman Hesse's personal objects, including some of the thousands of watercolours he painted in Ticino, plus books and other odds and ends that help recreate something of his life.

From Lugano, take bus 436 (direction Agra, Roncone) to Montagnola, Bellevue (Sfr6.40, 19 minutes).

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