Sighignola
| Sighignola | ||
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 View of Lugano from the 'balcony of Italy' |
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| height | 1314 m | |
| location | Lombardy , Canton Ticino | |
| Mountains | Lugano Alps | |
| Dominance | 2.47 km → Cima Crocetta | |
| Notch height | 450 m ↓ south of Lanzo d'Intelvi | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 58 '6 " N , 8 ° 59' 36" E | |
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The Sighignola is a 1,314 meter high mountain in the Lugano Prealps . It is located on the Italian - Swiss border between the Italian village of Lanzo d'Intelvi , where the summit is located, and the Swiss municipalities of Arogno and Lugano .
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The summit is also the highest point of the Val d'Intelvi and can be reached from Lanzo d'Intelvi via a road. On the summit there is a small chapel, a restaurant and a viewing terrace. The terrace is almost exactly on the border, but still on Italian territory. From there you can see Lake Lugano and some four-thousand-meter peaks in the Alps, including Monte Rosa , to the west . The mountain is also called "Italy's balcony" because of this view.
Cable car
At the end of the 1960s, an aerial tramway made by Bell was built on the Sighignola. The valley station was built directly on the shores of Lake Lugano at the northern end of Campione d'Italia , the mountain station slightly offset below the terrace on Swiss soil. A middle station at San Evasio was also built in the form of a concrete column that can be walked on, two half-timbered columns and the necessary power line.
However, the project failed due to technical problems (in some cases far too little ground clearance between the two cabins) and the related financing. The construction company finally went bankrupt and the cable car never went into operation. After the middle station had already disappeared, the ruins of the mountain station only began to be demolished in autumn 2011. The mountain station is now a viewing platform , whereas the top pillar and the ruins of the valley station still exist.
