Why Is There A Tiny Bit Of Italy Inside Switzerland?
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2025
- In one corner of southern Switzerland, there is a tiny piece of Italy that seems to have accidentally broken off from the rest of the country. So what is it doing there? I travelled to beautiful Lake Lugano to see for myself...
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One of my locql Italian restaurants has a connect the dots map of Italy on their children's menu. Whenever my daughter completes it, i always add dots for San Marino, Vatican City, and Campione d'Italia because I am an obnoxious pedant.
Wait a sec... Campione d'Italia is part of Italy, but San Marino and the Vatican Ciy are not, at least theoretically/legally
@@nicolanobili2113 Indeed, the Italian village is part of Italy, and the 2 foreign enclaves are not. Hence the dots.
No no no. You're not an obnoxious pedant. You just like to get things right, even if that does annoy some people who deserve to be annoyed. Just imagine that you were an engineer designing the latest passenger jet and you weren't fanatical about getting things right. Planes would fall from the skies and lots of people would die. That's not normally a good thing. 😉😉😁
You're not pedantic enough sir. Putting dots instead of rings is surely obnoxious though.
Do you also draw a little dot for the isle of lampedusa too? If not then your efforts are in vain.
While it is true that Campione can be translated to champion, like many words it also has a second meaning which is very apropos here: Campione also means "sample". So this town's name also means "Sample of Italy".
Considering it started as a Roman garrison, I'm wondering if Campione also shares etymological roots with camp/encampment. I had Latin in school, but it's been too long.
@@rolfs2165Although "camp" means "field" rather than garrison. Roman garrisons tended to be named "castro", as in the Spanish Castro-Urdiales or the many -Chesters in England.
Just a taster then
Came here to say exactly the same thing. Darn you Captain Hollister!
"It's just a demo"
Well this video is not what I thought it was going to be about!!! Last year, a new 3-s cable car linking Italy to Switzerland by the Matterhorn and Plateau Rosa Glacier opened. The valley station is technically in Swiss territory, but is declared to be in Italy as the entrance door for pedestrians is on the border, the entrance for skiers on the floor below where it is definitely on Swiss ground, while the upper station is most definitely in Switzerland. The border change is therefore declared as the cable car leaves the valley station.
🧐 sounds like I may need to go back to the area...
@@TheTimTraveller I’ll see if I can find you the forum thread about this - it’s in German, but it’s a good starting point if you wish to research it. I hope the information there is correct, but I’ve been following the construction of this lift for years now and it is certainly and interesting situation.
There is an other cable car with a border dispute around there. Errosion changed the water shed, wich defined the border. This resulted in the upper station of the cable car and the restaurant to change borders.
They wanted to replace the restaurant, but couldn't as it was not clear if italy or Switzerland was responsible for the permits and had to wait multiple years until it was solved
As we are at the topic of cable cars and borders, there is a chair lift in Switzerland, that crosses not a real border, but a border between cantons and therefore a language border. It is the chairlift Chalberhöni - Les Gouilles. You enter the chair lift in the canton of Berne, which speaks german, at this place, but when you exit the lift you are in the canton of Vaud, wich speaks french. Pretty interesting, if you ask me 😅
@@TheTimTravelleryou do. I did the trip last autumn. It is a lovely trip and the new cable cars are lovely.
Using the little eifel tower in Vegas to represent france is such a funny detail
There is a third in Tianducheng, China.
@@stephengraham1153 And in Tokyo and in Brasilia. There are Sonne videos of a geoguesser who always finds one of these.
Not just the Eifel tower, but the Venetian as well (06:01), and the picture of the Gondola at 6:17 has been cut out from the picture of the Venetian in Vegas as well (6:29). 😉
I'm surprised Cesar's Palace didn't make an appearance
Fun fact: The builders wanted to build a full-sized Eiffel Tower in Vegas, but the local airport height restrictions limited them to half-sized.
That casino is from what Bill Bryson described as the “F**k You!” School of architecture.
Bottan honestly manages to fuck up pretty much everything
It's sort of like Gambling Meets Brutalism.
WEF world headquarters.
Bill Bryson, the man who manages to be both an American national treasure and a British national treasure at the exact same time. You can't NOT love him.
It's an excellent example of why OSP Blue dislikes Brutalism.
And casinos are usually such understated, tasteful retreats.
I mean the ones in Monaco look nice.
You could probably hear me snicker all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada, the capital of tastefully understated architecture.
/s
@@ge48421 "Las Vegas, the capital of tastefully understated architecture???" Exclaimed the sheik of Dubai. "Hold my Karak!"
Nice
There’s a very good reason casinos aren’t liked, and adherents will never make em out to be anything else
Was that a sneaky little "We are the Campioni" at the end? Nice!
I caught the "Time Team" theme during the history bit.
"Campione!" used to be a very popular football/soccer yell here in the Netherlands. I think it was in the late 60-s/early 70s if I remember well. People were just yelling it in the streets with no real reason, just because it sounded good.
@@telebubba5527 Funny, this video made me wonder if Campione d'Italia inspired a lovely little short story about a tiny European country called Champiune, whose entire population is on the national football team, which gets flattened every year by the Liechtenstein, Nauru, and San Marino teams, in the tiny-country football league. I can't find that story with Google.
I think it was the "any way the wind blows" (Bohemian Rhapsody", but I might be mistaken...
@@johanneswerner1140 yes, at the tail end but most of the piano bit was WATC
There's a little bit of Italy inside of me. I crashed a scooter in the 90's near Florence and there's still a bit of grit from the road in my leg.
Its all fun and games until Italy demands the return of its sovereign grit
so if you were bleeding, does that mean you left a piece of you behind? 😉😎
@@bostonrailfan2427 "If I should crash my scooter, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a Florentine street that is forever @fjell6543."
@@ZGryphon nice!
😂 @@razordrive3238
love that you made your own cover of 'we are the champions' specifically for this video. One of the many reasons why your video's are such a joy to watch!
That, and the use of the TV series grand designs music whilst talking about a very not-so grand design!
As you say, they really do make his videos even more joyous to watch!
Using the Venetian and Paris resorts in Las Vegas to represent Venice and France respectively in a video about a casino...well played. After Italian unification, besides the Swiss rejecting Campione's wish for annexation, Italy gave all land west of Lake Lugano and half of the lake to Switzerland so that Swiss trade and transport would not have to pass through Italy. During World War II, besides Mussolini building that ornamental arch and adding "d'Italia" that you mentioned, the US Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) maintained a unit in Campione for operations in Italy as the Italian regime didn't have control over the enclave and the Swiss ignored it as long as the Americans kept a low profile!
Here are two other interesting exclaves/enclaves: The Omani exclave of Madha inside the UAE, which surrounds the UAE counter-enclave of Nahwa! Nahwa's counter-enclave was formed as a result of Madha's decision to declare allegiance to Oman instead of Al Qawasim of Sharjah, Al Qawasim of Ras Al Khaimah, or Al Sharqi of Fujairah which today all form part of the United Arab Emirates. In the late 1930s or early 1940s the leaders of the four rival clans who ruled the Musandam Peninsula (Al Qassimi of Ras Al Khaimah, Al Qassimi of Sharjah, Al Sharqi of Fujairah, and the Bu Said of Oman) gathered a group of village elders of Madha and posed the question as to which sheikhdom the Madhanis would declare allegiance. While Madha chose Oman, Nahwa chose to stay loyal to Al Qawasim of Sharjah, effectively making them a counter enclave within the exclave of Madha! So while the whole Baarle-Hertog/Nassau situation is well known, it's not the only place where counter-enclaves are a thing! The India-Bangladesh border used to have a bunch of counter-enclaves too, but they resolved the enclaves and counter-enclaves in 2015, and since the exchange of territory took place, the only remaining enclave is Dahagram-Angarpota, an exclave of Bangladesh.
great details!
That casino, unbelievable.
I chuckled when he said the quote was by the builder, himself.😄
@@JohnnyAngel8 Absolutely! 😄Still I don't get it - from what I gather, they told him to make it big. Did they also tell him to make it an eyesore?
A true monster casino.
more like unberable
@@aarona.aaronson9621 Well, casinos are built with few to no windows, making them unattractive structures. This design is to keep people gambling and unaware of the time of day. You'll not find clocks in casinos for the same reason.
The b roll of Vegas was brilliant. Thank you.
every time i see the locomotive toot in the intro i think "ah, this is the bit where he should have pulled the lever slower." don't know why my mind remembers this but it does
Same here
Ypu're definitely not alone with that one.
I think it is part of a video in which he explained that it should *not* be done slower ...
you're supposed to pull and hold it for a bit. The speed isn't the important bit, it's a valve after all, but you need to give the steam time to flow through it
A cup of tea and a Tim Traveller Video. Saved my day.
Great video, thanks! 🙂 I visited this place 30+ years ago on my first great European bicycle tour because I saw it in the Times Atlas and was curious. It was quite a backwater then, and in the post office I did pay Lira for stamps and stuck them in my journal, and they franked them. I did this in all countries I visited. Amazing how it has changed.
Gotta love finding stuff like this in an atlas and wondering about it for years.
@@Vinemaple I did that with the small French-Canadian village of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, and when I finally got there, it was everything I'd hoped for.
@@ZGryphon Worth going to just so you can say that you have visited one of the two places in the world which has a name including exclamation marks.
The other is Westward Ho! in England, and now I find myself wondering if they've ever considered renaming themselves Westward! Ho! just so as not to be outdone in the number of exclamation marks they have.
Love the Time Team background music during the history section.
Wanted to go to this exact region on vacation this year, but money dried up after an unfortunate death in the family. At least I can see the region vicariously through one of my favourite content creators! Cheers Tim!
Germany also has an enclave in Switzerland as well. It's called Büsingen am Hochrhein.
Tim also made a video about that.
(And also that one bank that has all the Nazi gold.)
@@ZGryphontechnically that's Swiss gold now because the original owner defaulted
Can you guys please stop leaving territory all over Switzerland and just keep them to yourselves? smh
Thank you - I just love all these unique & interesting facts you find throughout Europe. I never knew this place existed and now, I can’t help but love it - the fact that it is stunningly beautiful doesn’t hurt too..
Interesting facts about that Vegas version of the Eiffel Tower you showed, it consists of 5,000 tons of welded steel and is 540 feet or 164.5 meters tall, while the actual Eiffel Tower is 330 meters or 1,083 feet tall! It was initially meant to be a full-size replica but due to flight path concerns from the international airport, the tower had to be scaled down! Another interesting enclave/exclave is Marble Hill, a pene-exclave of the NYC borough of Manhattan. It's a part of Manhattan despite it being attached to the Bronx! Marble Hill was once Manhattan Island's northernmost tip but became an island in its own right in 1817, when two small streams were dug up to form a canal. The waterway ran from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Harlem River, cutting off Marble Hill from Manhattan Island. The mill canal was expanded in 1895 to become the Harlem River Ship Canal. The new channel, constructed at the direction of the federal government, was 400 feet wide and at least 15 feet deep at its competition. Marble Hill remained an island for years until it was physically connected to the Bronx in 1913, when the old Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in.
Two more are Sokh and Shohimardon districts, parts of Uzbekistan completely surrounded by Kyrgyzstan. Sokh was created in 1955. Local legend holds that the territory was lost by a Kyrgyz Communist Party official in a card game with his Uzbek counterpart. Others say it made sense to assign the area to Uzbekistan because the roads running along the Sokh river connected to Uzbekistan to the north rather than going through the rugged Kyrgyz territory to the east and west of the area in question. Chon-Qora (Qalacha) and Jani-Ayil are two other Uzbek exclaves in Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan also has exclaves in Kyrgyzstan, Vorukh and Kayragach (they have another in Uzbekistan called Sarvan), which led to border conflict, and these exclaves exist because of the Soviets. The Soviets aimed to create ethnically homogeneous republics, but many areas were ethnically mixed (like the Ferghana Valley), and they experienced difficulties in assigning an ethnic label to some peoples. In spite of this, regional elites strongly argued in favor of strict delineation, and was further complicated by a lack of expert knowledge and paucity of accurate or up-to-date ethnographic data on the region. They also aimed to create 'viable' entities, with economic, geographical, agricultural and infrastructural matters unrelated to (and sometimes trumping those of) ethnicity
cool
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And Marble Hill still has single-family houses!
"Did I come all the way up here just for that one scene?"
Your sacrifice is appreciated, Tim. The views were stunning!
Fun fact: the french came back pretty quickly and managed to beat the swiss so badly in 1515 that the swiss signed an eternal pact of friendship and it is also why swiss became neutral aside from sending some swiss guard to the pope and the french king...
1515 Marignan used to be one of the main dates that french kids would learn at school
By the way , this swiss guard of the french king was very unpopular at the eve of the french revolution (being foreigners and having a lot of privileges like not depending from french justice ).
They defended the king but were butchered during a riot .
@@francoislescour7179 Isn't this particular massacre of France's Swiss Guards the reason for the commemorative Lion Monument just outside Lucerne?
@@siamesevodka You are right , thank you , I had never heard of this monument .
Those Swiss gards were heroic in their duty , but it is strange to see Switzerland commemorating people who gave their life for an other country !
@@francoislescour7179 Good point - maybe they were simply mourning their sons who had died. If you visit Lucerne, though, you should visit the Lion Monument as well as the beautiful old bridge on Lac Lucerne and the city's Cathedral.
Not to be a pedant about your content but in my recollection from the 90s there were italian Carabinieri standing around the casino during working hours, they went back to Italy in the evenings. If anything actually happened like burgularies or traffic accidents, the Swiss police showed up.
That was however fairly rare because Campione had the social structure of a small italian village. Half of the apartments there were empty because used as tax write-off investments by rich Milanese, others were inhabited by “frontalieri” who worked in Lugano and the rest were locals who all seemed to be related to each other..
My mom lived there for several years while working as a language teacher in Lugano and pretty quickly got to know everyone. I would play woth the children at the Lido beach in the far end when I came to visit in the summer. I remember life there being incredibly quaint. Thanks for taking me down memory lane ❤
From what I have read, that's about all the Carabinieri do _anywhere._ That and harass the Polizia di Stato. :)
Opening shot, amazing views
I can't believe Mr. Super Mario was the one behind building the biggest casino in Italy and all of Europe. I knew he was up to something.
He apparently used Minecraft to draw the blueprints.
Speaking of weird borders between Switzerland and Italy: Lago di Lei (literally lake of the lake...) is worth investigating. A bit of Italy is carved out to put the dam inside Switzerland who operate the power station. But most of the reservoir lies in the Italian valley.
Wow, I love quirky stories like this. Thanks Tim!
So cool to see you wandering in the places where I live, I hope you had fun here despite the heavy rainfalls we had lately
Never heard of this enclave. Fascinating. Thank you so much Tim. However nothing will ever beat Baarle Hertog, where there are enclaves within enclaves
09:12 that's the Thut Fountain and town hall of Zofingen, which are located about 1 km from where I'm sitting.
This entire region , the southern alps of italy , is heaven on earth 😍 nice video btw 😁
Another super video. Tim never fails to deliver!
I just noticed Campione d'Italia on a map the other day! Such a serendipitous Saturday surprise. Thanks Tim!
In Italy there are 3 casinos, the Casino de la Vallée in Saint-Vincent, the Casino of Sanremo, the Casino of Venice plus the casino of Campione d'Italia
4:52 hillarious 'no-Switzerland' flag. Brilliant!
As my computer eventually seems to know best what not to miss on youtube, it finally decided to present me with your Campione d'Italia clip. Wow! Grüezi-wohl und grazie mille! It made me binge on your channel! You combine the highly entertaining skills of excellent narration, knowledge of many languages, pronunciations, historical and cultural backgrounds and a deep love of travel experiences! Finally, there is your clever use of musical accompaniments and puns! Bravo!
Although living retired in the South Australian Adelaide Hills, my youth in the Netherlands and once upon a time extensive travels through Europe still allow me to appreciate the many aspects of your presentations and the humour behind them! Yes, I did climb mount Urk and de Vaalserberg. I once walked along the Canal du Midi and melted in Death Valley. Now, you re-invite me to armchair traveling at its best! Continuons!
When I realised the background music was the Time Team theme at 5:20 I was _so_ thrilled, I love TT! Their new episodes on UA-cam have been so cool to see
The Tim Traveller, This video is fantastic! I liked it a lot!
I came from Italy but I’m learning a lot of interesting things in this channel about Italy! Thanks! Ciao 😊
Very nice segue from We Are The Champions into Bohemian Rhapsody at the end there. Very smooth!
One of my Swiss German friends described Ticino as “Italy but with order”. I thought the statement was a joke until I visited. So true!
Another fascinating geographic oddity. Love the animated history lesson, replete with SFX and nice musical touches. Bravo Tim!
Love how you use “we are the champions” at the end. Clever
I just visited Campione two weeks ago. We could almost have met, that would have been very funny. Great video as always!
Brilliant video. I went there in about 2014, got the train to Lugano from Milan. A fairly ordinary Italian train on the way there and a modern tilty Swiss train going back. Lovely region to visit. Also went on the funicular from the lake to Lugano station.
I was in Campione in the mid-1980s and the old casino was much easier on the eyes. Fun video, Tim... well done!
Photos of Paris and The Venetian in Las Vegas were a funny Easter egg. Also, We Are the Champions by Queen at the end, fitting. Well done.
We have a similar thing in Minnesota. Just a little chunk of the state on the Canadian side of a giant lake. I think everyone got stuck for a bit at the start of Covid lockdowns.
No hesitation in subscribing. A little history, geography, good cinematography & editing, plus a few corny jokes; all fits my brain just fine.
Been there. Done that. I found the village a bit boring years ago but the nature around is fantastic. Also I'd recommend visiting the nearby Balcone d'Italia which offers an amazing view of Lugano city, lake Lugano and of some of the highest peaks of the Alps
tim, your videos are always such a joy to watch. i live on the other side of the planet, but i can't wait to visit europe one day and maybe check out one of these places :D
I love the carefully chosen pieces of music you use in these videos. It's such a small detail in the end product and one could have just used some standard same music for every video, but I really appreciate the way you do it. It always puts a smile on my face.
By far my favourite Channel for Strange travel destinations
Was always curious about this ever since I visited Lugano a few years ago. Never bothered to do the research! Thanks Tim :)
Tim loved the grand designs music as you talked about the casino architecture
Love the Unsolved Mysteries theme music. Brings me back to my childhood.
This is your best one yet from a production values POV. Well done.
This is brilliant, Tim. I love Switzerland but have never been to the Italian speaking bit or the Italian bit in Switzerland - I’m going to have to visit!
Always entertaining, Mr. Traveller.
At the north end of CD is a lone house only accessible through Switzerland. It looks like Italy paved the last metre of the road in front of the home property, the pavement being lighter than the Swiss side.
Fun mix of travel and history. Love the We Are the Champions at the end
Thanks.
I was looking for something to bring my mood up.
Like "Maybe Tim has a new episode", ... And that he had!
I love Queen, thanks for playing them.
Using an image of Vegas’ Venetian for the was on Venice won you a subscriber. Priceless
You are my spirit animal, Tim. I looked this one up once on Wikipedia after meandering around Google Maps and finding this curious enclave, but didn't remember any of the details.
Sir, you are painfully funny. I love the interesting and informative videos you make, but holy hell you really catch me off guard with some truly genius punch lines. Cheers Tim!
I will be hiking over the Gotthard this summer and my tour will end in Lugano. I have also been to Campione before. So this video was just what I needed to prepare for my trip. Thank you ever so much for this jolly good explanation.
By that, also in NL they have a small part of Belgium! During several Long Distance walks we passed the hardly marked Border to the area. At first I didn't realize that we had been in NL and it was first the second time round, I found it out.
8:40 I love to guess the song in the background. Not gonna spoil it, but you'll recognize it by the end.
Tim, next time you are in Austria, visit the Zwentendorf. Back in the 70's, politicians decided to spend a huge amount of money and build a nuclear reactor there. And then, only after completing it, they asked the public in a referendum if it should be turned on. And as you can probably guess, the answer was "no", which is why Austria ended up with the worlds only nuclear reactor you can rent for shooting films or hosting a rave party. (As a side note, Zwentendorf power plant now actually produces a small amount of electricity, after the new owners decided to put in a solar installation).
I saved this to watch while my wife is flying to Vegas. So I didn’t expect to be as amused by the apt images of Paris and Venice. Wonderful stuff as ever.
Loved the Grand Designs music in t' background whilst the casino's looks were being discussed.
You mentioned that casinos are "banned" in Italy. Not really. There are 4 casinos in Italy, they are just very strictly regulated and all of them are state-run. In other words, a private individual or corporation cannot establish a new casino and the state controls them all, but nothing prohibits the state from setting up some more casinos, should it decide to do so (hopefully not)
Is this a European thing? Portugal is the same...
I've been looking for a video about that place for some time and have finally found it. Thank you! :)
Love these border videos! Look up Baarle-Hertog….that would be the perfect Tim Traveler video
Thank you for another superb video, Tim.👍
I assume you've noticed Swissminiatur just round the corner. Looking forward to the next video, especially the enclave within Swissminiatur!
Oh. I should have watched the video to the end before commenting!
I loved the choice of music. Thank you for another highly enjoyable video!
Thanks ! If you are a border nerd, there is the Swiss Customs Museum just a couple of kilometers away (accessible by boat or by hiking).
Nice to see you came back to Switzerland. I was yesterday searching the border marks on L'Arbézie 😅
This answered the inevitable question that I had about Campione D'Italia since learning about it in the Travelling Turtle video St Pancras to Bova Marina.
Traveling turtle is a legend as well.
You look and sound so much like a teacher I once had who even told me stories of his travels in Korea. I doubt it was you but it's why I love these videos so much
Thanks for the video and the historic details. Really good
These border anomalies are always fascinating. Did you already do one about Baarle Nassau/Hertog on the Dutch Belgian border south of Tilburg (or north of Tunhout, if you prefer)? Border hopping at its craziest. Thanks for this in any case,
Brilliant use of that piano piece in the outro, truly a champion :)
Great! 🙂
4:45 nice Time Team reference! 🙂
The Las Vegas photos were especially funny ;-)
Great video. Campione in italian can also mean "sample", but I have no idea whether this is related to how the village is named.
That casino reminds me of the MI6 building in Vauxhall in London.
It’s much worse.
Maybe it was inspired by that building, given that Tim says the original was created to obtain intelligence during WWI !
That would be an interesting detail if it were true.
You'd think MI6 would drive at least a Skoda, but I guess they're patriotic
@@eMorphized Vauxhall is Groupe PSA and the vehicles are rebranded opels. Oh, I see: Vauxhall is the house of windsor of cars.
@@sarowie maybe they'll upgrade to Morris JEs
Brilliant as ever, Tim. Thanks
On the northern edge of Switzerland there's also a one-village German enclave/exclave, Büsingen.
Malcantone in Ticino, Lugano in particular, is one of my fave places in the world, it’s just so beautiful there. My grandparents lived there, so I came here often. Swissminiatur is such a pear too.
Some of my ancestors came from Bissone and Arogno, two of the nearest villages to Campione. I always wondered why I had italian surnames but the villages where on Switzerland. Thanks for the video!
Finally, something about this oddity! Always wondered!
A lovely addition to the quirky collection…great stuff
5:55 It makes perfect sense that he would be Julius II, as Julius Cæsar actually was pope too.
Before an untimely series of knife wounds robbed him of it, Julius Cæsar held the office of Pontifex Maximus for a number of years. This was Rome's supreme religious leader, the head of the Roman pantheon, and the precursor to what would, after a centuries long ordeal of christenings and unchristenings, eventually become the head of the Roman Catholic Church, i.e. the Pope.
Crazy, but true. - But there was also a Pope who was not Julius Caesar and who named himself Julius I.
Interesting video. Would have loved to know more about why some things are Swiss and some things Italian 😊
Long story short: almost all services (rubbish collection, mail delivery, public transport, ambulances & fire engines) are provided by Switzerland, simply because the vehicles can get there much quicker! However, the police are Italian, because it's Italian territory, and they need to apply Italian law.
@@TheTimTraveller Thank you for clarifying! Love your videos 😊
3:10 Why does the casino look like a tuning fork?
ca-tsching...Making lots of sound...ca-tsching
Brutalism architecture is just weird like that lol
nice! ''We are the champions/Any way the wind blows'' at the end....
Top notch sound editing again, very subtle :)
I think it's most interesting what you can do with a bit of Italy inside Switzerland - not only simply a Casino but during WWII it was a perfect spot for "pirate" radio stations broadcasting towards Italy. The Swiss could wash their hands in innocence since "that's Italy" but the Italians couldn't do much about it because they couldn't actually physically get there to to shut down the radio stations because it's surrounded by Switzerland...(or so I remember having read about it). Yes, tax haven as well, since the Casino pays the bills.
How is it a tax heaven ? Sorry I am too dumb to understand it
@@mokisan if a small municipality has a tax payer that pays a lot of local taxes (say a casino, or an atomic power plant or something like that) that municipality doesn't need to tax its residents as much as other municipalities in order to provide municipal services.
Also that there IS a casino in Campione d'Italia but not really anywhere else in the vicinity might indicate that the local laws differ slightly from the rest of Italy implying that there might be other aspects of the (tax) law that might add to the tax haven status.
Campione is famous for having rich residents, which might not only be because of the fantastic lake views ;)
The 'original' casino was replaced, probably, in the 60s. The one there now is a replacement of that one
Ah interesting - I hadn't picked up that there was another building between the original one and the current one. None of the sources I found mentioned this. Thanks for the correction!