Bikers enjoy the sun and cultural landscape of the Ticino, Switzerland's tropical alp region, in this photo taken in summer 1997, showing Camedo, a village near the Italian border. Ticino, a 100-kilometer-long (60 mile) stretch between the stark, sheer mountains of the Germanic north and sultry Mediterranean south, offers a taste of all worlds. (AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Lauth)