Milan to San Mamete on Lake Lugano

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05/19/2013 - 16:29

Im flying in to Milan on friday and have an apartment in San Mamete on the nortern shore of Lake Lugano.I'm hiring a car and noticed that the sat nav route takes me into Switzerland.Will I have to cross borders and show paperwork?Am I allowed to drive in Switzerland? Are they're any issues I should know about? Thanks in advance

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If you go up the autostrada via Chiasso, you will need to buy a vignette at the border (€40).If you leave the autostrada at Como Nord, you go up Lake Como to Menaggio, as Alan suggests, and you stay in Italy. If you then want to visit Lugano - well worth it as it's a lovely town - you don't go on a motorway so don't need a vignette, or any paperwork, at the border at Gandria.