- Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain (1,097 m above sea level) of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in Switzerland.
- Monte San Giorgio, Lugano Önalplerinde, İsviçre'deki Lugano Gölü'ne bakan ormanlık bir dağdır (deniz seviyesinden 1,097 m yüksekliktedir).
- Hike to climb Monte San Giorgio, from Riva San Vitale. The route loops and climbs steeply to Monte San Giorgio, located 1,097 meters above sea level.
- To get to the top of Monte San Giorgio, catch a bus from Mendrisio or a cable-car to Serpiano.
- The Monte San Giorgio area is particularly important for the reproduction of amphibians and reptiles, it includes six sites identified as areas of national importance.
- The layers of the oil shale of the Monte San Giorgio were also rich in fossils, they were discovered during mining excavations of the oil shale.
- Location and Values: Monte San Giorgio is a forested mountain on the shores of Lake Lugano, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy.
- Rising in a pyramid above Lake Lugano, 1097m Monte San Giorgio has become Ticino’s mountain of myth thanks to its rich stash of Triassic marine-life fossils...
- This makes Monte San Giorgio a transnational natural heritage site of exceptional universal value. Source: www.mendrisiottoturismo.ch/en/discove...
- The Swiss part of Monte San Giorgio was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003, while the area in Italy was added in 2010.