- Monte San Giorgio rises up like a majestic, green pyramid surrounded by Lake Lugano in the southernmost part of Switzerland, in the Mendrisio district...
- Location and Values: Monte San Giorgio is a forested mountain on the shores of Lake Lugano, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy.
- Between nature and fossils. Straddling the Italian and Swiss borders, Monte San Giorgio is a lush mountain covered in dense forests of oak and chestnut.
- 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.
- Dal centro di Riva San Vitale si giunge al Tempio di Santa Croce,da qui si seguono le indicazioni dei sentieri che portano fino alla vetta del Monte San Giorgio.
- (Zurich University Palaeontology Institute). Measuring around 40 centimetres, reptile-like Serpianosaurus fossils have been found in the rocks at Monte San Giorgio.
- Itinerary: Meride - Monte San Giorgio (3.5h, see map). ... Rich in illustration panels, the trail twists around the Monte San Giorgio and on the Italian side.
- Comment (automatic translation in english). The Monte San Giorgio has numerous paths to climb. One of the longest is the one that starts from Riva San Vitale.
- In this way, petrified fossils of fish and marine reptiles, which were discovered in the various layers of Monte San Giorgio, were preserved there.
- Check out a downloadable 3D model of Monte San Giorgio area. A higher resolution model can be found in the PeakVisor mobile app.