Piz Varuna

Views of the Piz Varuna from the south, Alp Somdoss

The Piz Varuna ( formerly Italian Pizzo Pizzo di Verona Verona or ) is a mountain in the Eastern Alps and is part of the Bernina group. It forms with 3'453 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation in a smaller massif with the Piz Canton ( 3,110 m above sea level. M. ) and Cima Val Fontana ( 3,070 m above sea level. M. ) and the Sasso Rosso ( 3,416 m above sea level. M. ). The mountain lies between the Swiss Poschiavo and the Italian Valmalenco.

The ice masses of the Piz Varuna starting to flow north across the Vadret as Varuna in the Palü and eastward across the Vadret as Canton to the Val Poschiavo Varuna. The south to Vedretta di Varuna flows for about ten years, from just over the Valmalenco. Previously there was a glacial termination and the glacier tongue over the Val Tempesta Val d' Urse in Val Poschiavo.

Until shortly after the Second World War, the border between Italy and Switzerland went over Piz Varuna along the watershed on the Vedretta di Varuna Cima Val Fontana. Since the melting of the glacier, the border was moved back to the disadvantage of Switzerland.

View of the Piz Varuna with the Curnasel and Piz Canton of East ( Alp Grüm )

Views of the Piz Varuna Varuna from Val

Seen from Poschiavo