Monte San Salvatore

Monte San Salvatore
height	912 m
location	Ticino , Switzerland
Dominance	2.96 km → Sighignola
Notch height	596 m ↓ Pambio
Coordinates	716 987 / 92795 coordinates: 45 ° 58 '36 " N , 8 ° 56' 53" O ; CH1903: 716,987 / 92795

Monte San Salvatore as seen from Gandria at night

The Monte San Salvatore is 912 m above sea level. M. high panoramic mountain on the shores of Lake Lugano in Ticino in Switzerland .

Location and surroundings

Monte San Salvatore and Lugano as seen from Monte Brè

South of Monte San Salvatore is a peninsula that juts out into Lake Lugano between Lugano and Agno .

On Monte San Salvatore there is a chapel, the Museum San Salvatore (church history and geological exhibits) and an open-air exhibition with historical tourism posters from all over Switzerland. From 1943 to 1982 a well-known lightning research station was operated on the San Salvatore.

Multi-purpose facility Monte San Salvatore (around 1968)

There is a Swisscom transmitter on the summit , which uses a free-standing steel lattice tower as an antenna carrier. It supplies the Lugano region with radio and television programs from SRG SSR as well as the private radio program Radio 3iii. In addition, the broadcaster broadcasts the three Italian public channels RAI 1-3 for neighboring areas in the neighboring country.

tourism

A funicular , the San Salvatore Railway , leads up the mountain from the Lugano suburb of Paradiso . From the mountain station you can walk to the summit with the viewing platform on the chapel in about 10-15 minutes . The 360 ° panorama from this vantage point extends over Lake Lugano, the Po plain and the mountain ranges of the Swiss and Savoy Alps.

Various hikes can be undertaken from San Salvatore: one from the summit directly to Paradiso or via Ciona and Carona to Morcote , another place on the shores of Lake Lugano. A via ferrata (difficult) leads up to the San Salvatore to the left of the train .

Monte San Salvatore is the location and namesake of the literary film adaptation of San Salvatore from 1955.