Monte San Salvatore

The Monte San Salvatore is a 912 m high vantage point on the shore of Lake Lugano in Ticino. From Lugano Paradiso suburb performs a funicular railway, the San Salvatore path on the mountain. From the top station can be reached in about 10-15 minutes walk to the summit with a lookout tower. This is one of the best views in the region. The 360 ​​° panoramic ranges of Lake Lugano, the Po valley and the mountain chain of the Swiss and Savoy Alps.

In the San Salvatore leads left hand train a climbing wall ( difficult ) high.

From the San Salvatore off rewarding hiking tours: once from the summit directly to Paradiso, or via Ciona and Carona to Morcote, another town on the shore of Lake Lugano.

South of Monte San Salvatore is the Ceresio peninsula that juts out between Lugano and Agno in Lake Lugano.

At the summit there is a transmitter of Swisscom, which is used as antenna support a free-standing lattice tower. About them the Lugano region is supplied with the radio and television programs of SRG SSR as well as the private radio program Radio 3iii. In addition, the transmitter emits the three Italian public programs for RAI 1-3 from adjacent areas of the neighboring country.

On the Monte San Salvatore is also a chapel, the museum of San Salvatore ( church history and geological exhibits), an open-air exhibition of historical tourism posters from all over Switzerland and a lightning research station.

The Monte San Salvatore is the setting and namesake of the literary adaptation San Salvatore from the year 1955.