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Swissminiatur, Melide

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Swissminiatur presents important Swiss buildings, monuments, and sites in miniature. Built in 1959, the mini open-air park sits on the shore of Lake Lugano in Switzerland's Italian-speaking region. Covering an area of 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres), over 120 models of Swiss sites are displayed at a scale of 1:25. The park features moving attractions, including a 3,560 m (11,680 ft) model railway with 18 miniature trains, several cable cars ascending mountains, boats on lakes, and moving cars on highways. The miniature buildings are interspersed throughout a green park that features 1,500 different species of plants and flowers. Put Swissminiatur into our Melide itinerary builder and find out what's close by, where to stay, and where to head next.

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Sandeep B

We liked this place as we went here towards the fag end of our Swiss holiday. Here we were able to see the miniatures of the places we had visited and hence served as a good summarising of our Swiss v... more »
de_milin66

A family trip to swiss miniature from lucern was mainly aimed for children. It's a long travel from lucern around 2.5 to 3 hrs. From lucern to lugano & to melide (7-8) mins. Nicely replicated miniatur... more »
1990joe

If you don't have time to travel throughout Switzerland I guess this is the next best thing. You will see many nice buildings from every corner of Switzerland as well some beautiful trains running thr... more »

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Nanda Madhavaram

Good place, but could have been better if they had good stuff for kids to eat....as this has to be a child friendly place

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Arnaud Pretre

Great place for kids with a lot of swiss historic for famous places. The small tour on train is especially appreciated by small kids.

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Samuel Leiser

Great miniature theme park displaying the most typical sights as well as traditional houses of Switzerland, a lot to see and to do for kids (e.g. ride on the miniature train).

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Sune Kristian Buhl

Suisse miniature is a visit worthy if you have kids and needs to spend a couple of hours. The themed park with famous Suisse buildings, castles and trains are well kept and with many details. However the park hasn't evolved much over the years so if you've been there once, you've seen it all.

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P. B.

This park is OK for children, but is relatively little... and is open-air, so when is hot there aren't shadows, and when it rains it's not covered... maybe adding a roof would improve the visit...

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