Main object of interest is the 17th century double-arched Ponte dei Salti. Also known as the Roman Bridge, this stone bridge that crosses the River Verzasca was in disrepair and rebuilt in 1960. Lavertezzo’s 18th century Madonna degli Angeli Parish Church is also worth seeing. It is the only baroque church in the valley.
The exclave of Riazzino Piano in the Piano di Magadino (Magadino Plain) also belongs to the municipality of Lavertezzo. For centuries, Lavertezzo’s inhabitants spent their summers in the Verzasca Valley and took their cattle down to the plain in winter. Lavertezzo’s population has dwindled due to emigration towards Italy while Riazzino Piano has developed into a prosperous regional centre of commerce and trade in the suburban belt on the edge of the Piano di Magadino.
The Valle Verzasca is a rural and largely untouched valley with steep inclines and numerous waterfalls. The emerald-hued Verzasca River flows over bizarrely formed, smoothly polished rock through the narrow valley and has many natural rock pools and places to bathe. The river is also popular with canoeists and divers but is regarded as difficult and in many places dangerous. Below Lavertezzo just before the entrance to the valley, the Verzasca is dammed and forms the Lago di Vorgorno before flowing through the Piano di Magadino and into Lago Maggiore.
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