Pizzo Bombögn
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| height | 2331 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Ticino , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Lepontine Alps | |
| Coordinates , ( CH ) | 46 ° 18 '19 " N , 8 ° 29' 36" O ( 681 252 / 128 753 ) | |
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The Pizzo Bombögn is 2231 m above sea level. M. high mountain in the Lepontine Alps in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
The mountain lies west of the Maggia Valley on the border between the communities of Campo (Vallemaggia) and Bosco / Gurin .
In 1948, a 300-meter-steep, up to two-meter-high dry stone wall was built at the top 150 meters , which can be seen from afar. The wall was built to prevent goats from grazing on the neighboring slope and to destroy the delicate turf. In 2000 the wall was restored.
literature
- Albert Siegenthaler and Hermann Vögeli: Directory of Swiss peaks over 2000 m. Swiss Alpine Club, 1979.
- Roland Mäder: Bombögn and the ladder to heaven , novel. Tamaroga-Verlag, R. Mäder, 2013
- Bombögn: il muro , Vallemaggia pietraviva. Cevio: APAV, Associazione per la protezione del patrimonio artistico e architettonico di Valmaggia, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ National information point on the NIKE CULTURAL HERITAGE - A masterpiece of rural architecture. Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ APAV. Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
Web links
Commons : Pizzo Bombögn - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Pizzo Bombögn at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node