This is a very nice walk along the lake. There is information along the way about the olive trees that once flourished there. Please note that the trail actually starts about a mile past the City Park on the way to Gandria. That mile before the actual trail is mostly through the business district and not particularly memorable, but the Olive Trail itself is very nice. Gandria is nice to see, too.

Minimal tourists, learned a little about olives, beautiful scenery, not a difficult walk cute little restaurants and stops and a beautiful pottery store where he husband makes it and his wife paints it. Such an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. Plus jasmine, rosemary figs and olives trees line the walk and the air smells sweet.

This is probably the cheapest thing you can do in this expensive country. Take the olive trail either in the morning hours or evening so you do not catch the sun because it's about an hour and a half walk. Beautiful trails with pretty houses around, at the end where you catch the boat you will have a beautiful church where you can meditate for a couple of minutes and if you enter the church you got to be very quiet and appreciate silence. Also at the end of the trail you can take pictures in those little cobbled streets and use the restrooms which are free and very clean, there's a fountain in the middle if the whole journey with spring water and it is safe to drink or if you bring your bottles you must refill because a bottle if water at the end will cost you 3.40 euros.
You must catch the boat which runs every 30 minutes back to Lugano and it's about 16 euros, if you catch the boat sit where you face the side of the bias where you got in from because all the beautiful houses are on that side. Enjoy this beautiful trail.

The olive trail is a more scenic way of going from Lugano to Gandria, and it offer some awesome views of the lake and the surrounding mountains. If you closer to the sunset, if it's a clear day, you'll have an epic experience.

Anyway, the trail is quite short, you can walk it within 2 hours even if walking slowly.