Bella Lui

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View from the Bella Lui in winter

The Bella Lui ("beautiful light" in the old Valais dialect) is 2548  m above sea level. M. high mountain in the canton of Valais .

The summit is accessible via a hiking trail and is on the border between the municipalities of Icogne in the west and Crans-Montana in the east.

The former "Sanatorium Bella Lui" in Crans-Montana, a youth hostel since 2017, is named after the mountain. Not to be confused with the Tête de Bellalué (formerly also called Tête de Bellaluex) in the area of ​​the municipality of Bex .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902, p. 182, keyword Bellaluex (Tête de)   ( scan of the lexicon page ).

Coordinates: 46 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 29'  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and three thousand eight hundred twenty-five  /  133101