Sunday excursion to Mendrisiotto to Meride’s Paleontology Museum. Plus five more tips from Ticino.
Excavation treasure: The Paleontology Museum designed by star architect Mario Botta has been awarded the title of World Natural Heritage by UNESCO.
Photo: PD
After school, when the other kids were running after soccer, he would go to the woods to look for stones. He pulled them off the ground, sniffed them, and was stunned by the strange smell they released.
Daniele Albicetti, 45, remembers Oil with the scent of toys and his childhood days in the village of Meredith of 350 souls. “At the time I suspected that was the case with the stones: they smelled badly in oil!”
The game turned into a passion, a passion into a science, and a sniff of the stone turned into a geologist, after he finished his studies, he returned to his ancient homeland after Gotthard. He founded a family in Mendrisiotto and keeps a treasure trove of fossils on the side of Monte San Giorgio, which has been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status and cleverly designed by local stellar architect Mario Botta: the Museo dei fossili blends harmoniously and inconspicuously from the outside of the façades in the center of the village . Inside, the most modern design blends millions of years into three open floors.
