File:Lago_di_Lugano3.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,097 m (3,599 ft)
- Prominence
- 758 m (2,487 ft)
- Location
- Ticino , Switzerland
- Parent range
- Lugano Prealps
- Topo map
- Swisstopo 1373 Mendrisio
- Easiest route
- Trail
- Official name
- Monte San Giorgio
- Type
- Natural
- Criteria
- viii
- Designated
- 2003 (27th session )
- Region
- Europe and North America
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Italy–Switzerland border
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Ticino
- Elevation
- 1097
- Official website
- www.montesangiorgio.ch
- Image
- Lake Lugano.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Monte San Giorgio
- topographic prominence
- 758
- topographic isolation
- 3.38
- described by source
- Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
- native label
- Monte San Giorgio
- Commons gallery
- Monte San Giorgio (Prealpi Luganesi)
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Monte San Giorgio is a Swiss mountain and UNESCO World Heritage Site near the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is part of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in the Swiss Canton of Ticino.
Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain, rising to 1,097 m (3,600 feet) above sea level. It has a roughly pyramidal shape, with a steep north edge sloping towards Lake Lugano and a more shallow South Slope extending towards the Po Plain. The eastern (Swiss) side of the mountain, between the municipalities of Brusino Arsizio, Riva San Vitale, and Meride, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2003. This was in recognition of its cultural, biological, and especially paleontological significance. The site is renowned for its fossil content, one of the best known records of marine life in the Middle Triassic period. The Italian region west of Poncione d'Arzo (Porto Ceresio) was added as an extension to the World Heritage Site in 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monte San Giorgio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.