Descend to Täsch and rejoin your coach before climbing the Simplon Pass, an Alpine route Napoleon expanded into a 63-kilometre road completed in 1805. Built with bridges and galleries cut into the rock, it became a key crossing between Switzerland and Italy. From the 2,000 m (6,562 ft) summit, descend towards Lake Maggiore before reaching Lugano, in Ticino, Switzerland’s only canton where Italian is the sole official language. Perhaps choose an Optional Experience by boat to Isola Bella, where terraced gardens surround a Baroque palace on the Borromean Islands.