Monte San Giorgio

Monte San Giorgio
Monte San Giorgio, shown on the left in the background of Lake Lugano
Highest point
Elevation	1,097 m (3,599 ft)
Prominence	758 m (2,487 ft) ^[1]
Coordinates	45°54′49″N 8°56′59″E / 45.91361°N 8.94972°E / 45.91361; 8.94972Coordinates: 45°54′49″N 8°56′59″E / 45.91361°N 8.94972°E / 45.91361; 8.94972
Geography
Monte San Giorgio Location in Switzerland
Location	Ticino, Switzerland
Parent range	Lugano Prealps
Topo map	Swisstopo 1373 Mendrisio
Climbing
Easiest route	Trail

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Monte San Giorgio
Type	Natural
Criteria	viii
Designated	2003 (27th session)
Reference no.	1090
State Party	Switzerland-Italy
Region	Europe and North America
Extensions	2010

Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain (1,097 m above sea level) of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in Switzerland. It lies in the southern part of the canton of Ticino, between the municipalities of Brusino Arsizio, Riva San Vitale and Meride. Monte San Giorgio became a UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2003, because it "is the single best known record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of life on land as well."^[2] The Italian region west of Poncione d'Arzo (Porto Ceresio) was added as an extension to the World Heritage Site in 2010.

In Meride is the Museum of fossils from Monte San Giorgio, designed by the Ticinese architect Mario Botta.

Notes and references

External links

Media related to Monte San Giorgio at Wikimedia Commons
Monte San Giorgio on Hikr
World Heritage official website

World Heritage Sites in Switzerland

Lake Geneva region	Lavaux Vineyard Terraces Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch¹

Espace Mittelland	La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle Old City of Bern Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch¹

Eastern	Convent of St. Gall Convent of St. Johann Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes² Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

Ticino	Monte San Giorgio Castles, Wall and Ramparts of Bellinzona

Nationwide	Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³

¹ Shared with other region/s ² Shared with Italy ³ Shared with Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia

World Heritage Sites in Italy

Northwest	Crespi d'Adda Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Monte San Giorgio¹ Porto Venere, Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto, Cinque Terre Corniglia Manarola Monterosso al Mare Riomaggiore Vernazza Residences of the Royal House of Savoy Castle of Moncalieri Castle of Racconigi Castle of Rivoli Castello del Valentino Royal Palace of Turin Palazzo Carignano Palazzo Madama, Turin Palace of Venaria Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi Villa della Regina Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes¹ Rock Drawings in Valcamonica Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato

Northeast	Aquileia The Dolomites Ferrara Modena Cathedral, Torre della Ghirlandina and Piazza Grande, Modena Orto botanico di Padova Ravenna Venice Verona City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

Central	Assisi Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia Florence Hadrian's Villa Medici villas Piazza del Duomo, Pisa Pienza Rome² San Gimignano Siena Urbino Val d'Orcia Villa d'Este

South	Alberobello Amalfi Coast Castel del Monte, Apulia Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, Paestum and Velia, Certosa di Padula Herculaneum Oplontis and Villa Poppaea Naples Palace of Caserta, Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio Complex Pompeii Sassi of Matera

Islands	Aeolian Islands Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale Archaeological Area of Agrigento Barumini nuraghes Mount Etna Syracuse and Necropolis of Pantalica Val di Noto Caltagirone Catania Militello in Val di Catania Modica Noto Palazzolo Acreide Ragusa Scicli Villa Romana del Casale

Nationwide	Longobards in Italy, Places of Power; 568-774 A.D. Brescia Cividale del Friuli Castelseprio Spoleto Temple of Clitumnus located at Campello sul Clitunno Santa Sofia located at Benevento Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo located at Monte Sant'Angelo Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³

¹ Shared with Switzerland ² Shared with the Holy See ³ Shared with Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland

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