The second day of “2 giorni Ticino” will be at Collina d’Oro, a town founded in 2004 by the merger of three villages - Gentilino, Montagnola and Agra. The commune covers a hill of the same name, which literally means “Golden hill”. This name is a very accurate description of the beautiful landscape sunlit all year round.

Collina d’Oro is known for being the birthplace of many artists, architects and craftsmen who migrated across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, making buildings and works of art of great prestige, particularly in Russia. The names of families Gilardi, Adamini, Camuzzi, Furlani can be found at a number of imposing buildings in St. Petersburg.

The village of Montagnola is known worldwide for having been for many years the residence of the writer Hermann Hesse, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

Collina d’Oro is home to important cultural heritage, among which there are the church complex of Sant'Abbondio in Gentilino with the neoclassical cemetery nearby (a sort of outdoor sculpture museum) where famous people are buried; the Camuzzi house in Montagnola; the church of S.Tommaso in Agra and many more.

Among the rural buildings held in Collina d'Oro there is an old trap to catch the birds, which is situated in the forest Posmonte in Agra. Also, the village of Agra, on the hilltop, was well known in the first half of the nineteenth century because of the sanatorium, an impressive structure, built by wealthy Germans, in which they was treated for tuberculosis.