Monte prose
| Monte prose | ||
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 Monte Prosa in summer, the top of the pass to the right of the lake |
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| height | 2737 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Airolo , Canton Ticino | |
| Mountains | Gotthard massif | |
| Coordinates | 687 615 / 157 389 | |
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The Monte Prosa is a mountain in the Gotthard massif .
The mountain is 2737 m above sea level. M. high and is located northeast of the Gotthard Pass in the area of the Ticino community of Airolo . It can be climbed via the northeast ridge. The mountain is built from sub-Triassic granite . The prose granite presented here is a variety of rotondo granite .
The Gotthard road tunnel runs around 1000 meters deeper than the Gotthard pass under the mountain, and the Sasso da Pigna fortress, which can be reached from the pass, has been built into Monte Prosa.
To the east of the mountain is the Lago della Sella reservoir .
The “Two prongs protrude into the blue of the air” mentioned by Friedrich Schiller in his “Ber Link” from 1804 are Monte Prosa and Fibbia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Prose (Monte). In: Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Fourth volume. Attinger, Neuenburg 1906, p. 44.
- ↑ prose granite. In: Lithostratigrafisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Academy of Sciences, accessed March 7, 2017 .
- ^ Stefan S. Hafner, Andreas Loida: Origin and variation of the microcline triclinicity in granitic bodies of the Central Alps . In: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . tape 73 , no. 2 , 1980, p. 563 ( PDF ).