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Alagna Valsesia is a small town in northern Italy located in the Valsesia valley. It serves as a significant cultural and geographical center for the region, known for its Alpine setting and traditional mountain community.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Alagna Valsesia
- Demonym
- alagnesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Vercelli
- Population
- 712
- Area
- 72.04
- Elevation
- 1191
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Gressoney-Saint-Jean
- Official website
- www.comune.alagnavalsesia.vc.it
- Image
- Alagna Valsesia- (46).JPG
- Dialing code
- 0163
- Licence plate code
- VC
- Patron saint
- John the Baptist
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- postal code
- 13021
- Commons category
- Alagna Valsesia
- topic's main category
- Category:Alagna Valsesia
- Commons gallery
- Alagna Valsesia
- mountain range
- Graian Alps
- native label
- Im Land
- has certification
- Bandiera arancione
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Encyclopedic overview
Tagliaferro 2,964 metres (9,724 ft) from passo dei Salati
Alagna Valsesia (Walser German: Im Land, Piedmontese: Alagna, Valsesiano: Lagna) is a comune and small village high in the Valsesia alpine valley in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy, a UNESCO World heritage site since 2013. It is a tourist place for mountaineering and winter sports, and it is internationally renowned for the freeride off-piste skiing. It is also the traditional starting point for the Margherita Hut climb, at 4,554 metres (14,941 ft) above sea level, the highest building in Europe. It was originally settled by Walser at the beginning of the 12th century. It is located at an elevation of 1,191 metres (3,907 ft) just south of the Monte Rosa, elevation 4,638 metres (15,217 ft) (the second tallest peak in the Alps); It is very close to Milan (130 kilometres (81 mi)) and to the international Milan–Malpensa Airport (106 kilometres (66 mi)).
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