Monte Tamaro
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 Monte Tamaro from the east, on the right the mouth of the Ticino river into Lake Maggiore , on the eastern flank the Monte Ceneri pass |
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| height | 1960 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton Ticino , Switzerland | |
| Dominance | 13.3 km → Cima di Morisciolo | |
| Notch height | 1408 m ↓ Monte Ceneri | |
| Coordinates | 710 375 / 106824 | |
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The Monte Tamaro is a mountain ( 1,960 m above sea level. M. ) in the Swiss canton of Ticino above the village of Rivera .
On La Manèra (1858 m), the eastern side summit of Monte Tamaro, there is a large Swisscom radio relay station. They are used to transfer parts of the connections from Ticino to German-speaking Switzerland.
chapel
The Cappella di S. Maria degli Angeli on the Alpe Foppa ( 1567 m ), designed by the Ticino architect Mario Botta from 1990 and built between 1992 and 1994, made the place known nationwide. The chapel , inaugurated on September 1, 1996 and decorated with paintings by Enzo Cucchi , can be reached by cable car .
tourism
In the area of Alpe Foppa (approx. 1530 m, at the mountain station of the Rivera cable car) on the north-eastern slope of the mountain there is a summer toboggan run, a bike park and a mountain bike course. The 2003 Mountain Bike World Championships took place on the slopes of Monte Tamaro . At the beginning of the 2018 season, the MTB downhill track was closed due to erosion.
A hiking route leads from Monte Tamaro in around 4½ hours over several other peaks to Monte Lema (1,624 m).
In good weather, the view extends to the Monte Rosa massif and the Matterhorn . This makes the summit of Monte Tamaro one of the few viewpoints that allow a simultaneous view of the lowest point (on Lake Maggiore ) and the highest point ( Dufourspitze ) in Switzerland.
literature
- Ergoli Valentina, Lamberti Claudia: La cappella sul monte Tamaro. Un ponte tra terra e cielo . In: Bollettino Ingegneri, 2007 (1–2), pp. 17–22 ( full text )
Web links
- Tourist office Ticino
- Monte Tamaro on the ETHorama platform
- Mario Botta: Santa Maria degli Angeli Chapel Monte Tamaro. In: galinsky.com. 1996 (English).
- Ursula Brem: Monte Tamaro - Monte Lema. In: wandersite.ch. 1st September 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erosion on Monte Tamaro: the downhill section will be closed. In: MTB-News.de. March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .