Franklin College Switzerland - Campus

Campus

The main campus (formally Kaletch Campus), acquired in 1985, is composed of a private villa with attached library, auditorium, and classroom wing, surrounded by a wooded park. In 2005 the college acquired an additional campus nearby, adding administrative, educational, athletic, social and residential capacity. The current campus spans 5 acres (20,000 m2). The Franklin campus is residential, and is located on a hillside overlooking the town of Lugano, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

Franklin College has ten residence buildings, seven in Sorengo and three in Lugano

• Airone, located in an old hotel directly between main campus and North Campus with singles and doubles, all of which have their own bathrooms and some of which have kitchenettes. The ground floor houses the office of Student Life, and one of the student lounges, the "Falcon's Nest".
• Alba, located in Lugano 5–10 minutes from North Campus on the way downtown.
• Ciliegi, located directly across via Ponte Tresa from Airone. This is the smallest residence on campus, in apartment-style doubles.
• Florida, also located in Lugano but in the direction of Paradiso. Consists of hotel-style doubles and singles, some of which have lake views.
• Leonardo da Vinci (LDV), located on the grounds of North Campus, this is the only all-freshman student dormitory.
• Giardino, nestled below the Sorengo monastery, this residence is mainly multiples (4-6 bedrooms and a shared kitchen) with some triples for freshmen.
• Girasole, located across the street from Florida in Lugano, has one female-only wing.
• Panera, located on the main campus grounds next to the Grotto (one of two dining halls) with apartment-style triples. Each apartment consists of four rooms: a bedroom, bathroom (with bathtub), separate kitchen, and a large common room with three desks and a couch. The Panera Lawn is a common meeting place and hang out for many students, no matter what residence they live in.
• The final two buildings are the as-of-late unnamed New Buildings (A and B) located across via Ponte Tresa from Panera. New Building A has four bedroom apartment-style housing, while New Building B has two, three, four, five, and six bedroom apartments, some of which are two stories. All rooms in both New Buildings have arguably the biggest kitchens on campus with at least one bathroom (with a shower) per two students.