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Bessanèse (Uia di Bessanese in Italian) (3,594 m), is a mountain of the Graian Alps on the France and Italy border.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Bessanèse
Mountain.other_name
Uia di Bessanese
Mountain.photo
Automne en Haute Maurienne (50591045503).jpg
Mountain.photo_caption
Bessanèse
Mountain.elevation_m
3592
Mountain.prominence_m
394
Mountain.map
Alps
Mountain.map_caption
Location in the Alps
Mountain.location
Savoie, France and Piedmont, Italy
Mountain.range
Graian Alps
Mountain.listing
Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Mountain.first_ascent
31-8-1857 by Antonio Tonini

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
mountain
Country
Italy
Located in
Balme
Elevation
3592
Material used
serpentinite
Image
Automne en Haute Maurienne (50591045503).jpg
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Commons gallery
Uia di Bessanese
Commons category
Uia di Bessanese
topographic prominence
394
topographic isolation
3.42
native label
Uia di Bessanese

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Features
  • Bibliography
  • Maps
  • References

Bessanèse (Uia di Bessanese in Italian) (3,594 m), is a mountain of the Graian Alps on the France and Italy border.

== Features == Most famous on its Italian side, the mountain lies at the head of the Valli di Lanzo, around 30 km north of Turin. A popular hiking peak, its summit lies on a ridge.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bessanèse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations