The family-run Continental Parkhotel is located 656 feet south of the main railway station of Lugano, where the funicular leaves regularly for the city center. Plunge into the wonderful swimming pool amid a large park after a day of doing sightseeing or business in Lugano. All rooms are air-conditioned and nonsmoking and are equipped with soundproofed windows. The comfort rooms are located in the annex building and the superior rooms in the main building of the Continental Parkhotel. La Veranda à la carte restaurant or in summer Grotto & Ronco dei Bianchi Distillery, with warm Ticino specialties, open from 6.30pm to 10.00pm. The buildings of the surrounding Ronco dei Bianchi historical vineyard have been carefully restored and house a distillery, a cellar for the wine production, the agricultural museum and the grotto restaurant.