{"id":745,"date":"2026-02-18T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/?page_id=745"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:48:49","slug":"vacallo2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/travel\/vacallo2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacallo, 4 August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vacallo is a Swiss town bordering Chiasso<\/a>. The two settlements are physically attached to one another, yet remain separate municipalities: their proposed unification was rejected in a 2007 referendum.
\n<\/a>The extreme outskirts of Vacallo contain nothing of particular interest…
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\n<\/a>Then, along the rather steep ascent towards the centre, the buildings begin to offer the tourist a glimmer of hope…
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\n<\/a>Yet the attractive portion of the historic centre consists of very few buildings, many of which are, regrettably, abandoned.
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\n<\/a>Even the charming mountain-style streets are present in a quantity of one.
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\n<\/a>In Vacallo two churches deserve a visit: one is interesting externally…
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\n<\/a>… and the other internally (for its minimalist beauty).
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\n<\/a>Street-name plaques and house numbers are three-dimensional.
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\n<\/a>The mirrors positioned at road junctions are rectangular and dark. At first glance, they even struck me as switched-off television screens.
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\n<\/a>The letterboxes are the same as in Chiasso. Postage may be paid by SMS.
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\n<\/a>Vacallo’s postwoman drives a car with the steering wheel on the right. The reason for this phenomenon remains unknown to me.
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\n<\/a>Many cars (of various types) parked along Vacallo’s streets lack number plates. Were I a wicked person, I might suspect them to be stolen vehicles awaiting the next stage of their illegal logistical journey. But I am not so wicked.
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\n<\/a>Local public transport (buses) is very frequent: I observed them passing only minutes apart.
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\n<\/a>All litter bins possess at least one additional function beyond the basic one: either bag dispensers or ashtrays.
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\n<\/a>As in Chiasso, there are designated areas within Vacallo featuring a wide variety of containers for separate waste collection.
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\n<\/a>The generic waste bins scattered around the town are extremely simple.
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\n<\/a>Hydrant fittings are of the same model as in Chiasso, though in a different colour.
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\n<\/a>Public toilets.
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\n<\/a>Road signs have frames. The expression «general limit» remained incomprehensible to me: are there also specific limits?
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\n<\/a>The inhabitants of Vacallo do not respond — they literally chase tourists in order to be photographed.
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The photographic account of a tourist visit to Vacallo on 4 August 2018. My impression of the place: worth seeing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":206,"menu_order":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}