Pizza Grossa

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Pizza Grossa
Pizza Grossa, recorded by Tgant Son Martegn

Pizza Grossa, recorded by Tgant Son Martegn

height 2939  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
Mountains Albula Alps
Dominance 1.277 km →  Tinzenhorn
Notch height 215 m ↓  Pass d'Ela
Coordinates 770 998  /  163 245 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '55 "  N , 9 ° 40' 14"  O ; CH1903:  770,998  /  163,245
Pizza Grossa (Canton of Graubünden)
Pizza Grossa
Normal way Via Cotschen
Pizza Grossa, taken from Cotschen

Pizza Grossa, taken from Cotschen

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The Pizza Grossa ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Surmiran pizza collective plural to piz (= 'tip'), roughly rendered with 'Gespitz'; large from the Latin grossus for 'thick') is a mountain east of Savognin in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland with a Height of 2939  m above sea level. M.

Location and surroundings

Bergüner sticks with Piz Mitgel , Tinzenhorn , Pizza Grossa and Piz Ela (from left to right), taken from Val Schmorras .

The Pizza Grossa belongs to the Bergüner sticks , a subgroup of the Albula Alps . The summit is entirely within the municipality of Surses .

The neighboring peaks include the Piz Mitgel , the Tinzenhorn , the Cotschen , the Piz Ela and the Piz Furnatsch .

North of the Pizza Grossa is the often visited mountain lake Lai Tigiel ( 2462  m ). To the northeast are the Laiets ( Romansh for 'Seechen') with a nameless lake at 2647  m directly northeast of the Pizza Grossa as well as the Lai Mort ( 2603  m ) and the Lai Grond ( 2594  m ), which is located southwest of the Piz Ela.

The mountain is in the middle of Parc Ela , a 600 square kilometer nature park opened in 2006 .

Valley locations are Savognin and Tinizong . Frequent starting points are the Ela hut ( 2252  m ) in the lonely Val Spadlatscha and the Plang la Curvanera car park ( 1844  m ), which can be reached via a narrow alpine road .

Routes to the summit

A frequent starting point is the Plang la Curvanera car park ( 1893  m above sea level ), to which a small road leads from Savognin via Tussagn. The alpine road from Tinizong into the Val d'Err to Penza is closed to general motor vehicle traffic. A hiking bus runs from Savognin to Plang la Curvanera on Wednesdays and to Pensa on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Signpost on the digls Orgels pass .

Over the digls Orgels pass

  • Starting points:
  1. Filisur ( 1080  m ), Bergün ( 1373  m ) or Ela Hut ( 2252  m )
  2. Tinizong ( 1232  m ), Savognin ( 1207  m ) or Plang la Curvanera ( 1844  m )
  1. 6 hours from Filisur, 5½ hours from Bergün or 2½ hours from the Ela hut
  2. 5 hours from Tinizong, 5½ hours from Savognin or 4 hours from Plang la Curvanera
Signpost on the Pass d'Ela .

Over the Pass d'Ela

  • Starting points:
  1. Filisur ( 1080  m ), Bergün ( 1373  m ) or Ela Hut ( 2252  m )
  2. Tinizong ( 1232  m )
  1. 6 hours from Filisur, 5½ hours from Bergün or 2½ hours from the Ela hut
  2. 5½ hours from Tinizong

panorama

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360 ° panorama from the Pizza Grossa

gallery

literature

  • Manfred Hunziker: Club guide, Bündner Alps . From the Septimer to the Flüela. 3. Edition. Vi. Verlag des SAC, 2000, ISBN 3-85902-187-7 , p. 221 .
  • National map of Switzerland, sheet 1236 Savognin, 1: 25000, Federal Office of Topography, 2009 edition.

Web links

Commons : Pizza Grossa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 93 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 96 .
  3. ↑ Bike & hiking bus timetable on the Savognin Bivio Albula holiday region website, accessed on April 8, 2018