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La Spedla (or Punta Perrucchetti) is a minor summit south of Piz Bernina on the border between Italy and Switzerland.With a height of 4,020 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit on the Italian side of the Bernina Range and the highest summit in Lombardy.
The highest elevated locality to be found in Lombardy is the secondary peak of the Piz Bernina, La Spedla, at 4,020 metres (13,190 ft). Another prominent peak is Monte Cevedale, standing 3,764-metre (12,349 ft) tall. The Forni glacier (12 km 2 (4.6 sq mi)) is located in the Ortles-Cevedale Range.
Piz Bernina and the Morteratsch Glacier. Piz Bernina is one of the few isolated Alpine four-thousanders and the most topographically isolated mountain of Switzerland.It is the culminating point of a group of summits slightly lower than 4,000 m (13,123 ft) mostly lying on the main watershed between Switzerland and Italy (such as Piz Scerscen, Piz Zupò, and Piz Palü).
Pages in category "Mountains of Lombardy" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 218 total. ... La Spedla; Monte Legnone; Monte Lesima ...
It is 313 kilometres (194 mi) long. The highest point of the drainage basin is the summit of la Spedla (a subpeak of Piz Bernina), at 4,020 metres (13,190 ft). Towns along the river Adda include Bormio, Tirano, Sondrio, Bellagio and Lecco (both on Lake Como), Brivio and Lodi.
Location of Lombardy within Italy Provinces of Lombardy. The following is a list of the municipalities of Lombardy, Italy. [1] There are 1,507 municipalities in Lombardy (as of January 2019): 243 in the Province of Bergamo; 205 in the Province of Brescia; 148 in the Province of Como; 112 in the Province of Cremona; 85 in the Province of Lecco
Lombardy has a surface area of 23,861 km 2 (9,213 sq mi), and is the fourth-largest region of Italy after Sicily, Piedmont and Sardinia. [11] It is bordered by Canton Ticino and Canton Grisons of Switzerland to the north, and by the Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto to the east, Emilia-Romagna to the south and Piedmont ...
Lombardy (Lombard: Lombardia), also called Historical Lombardy (Lombardia storega) or Greater Lombardy (Grand Lombardia), is a name referring to the territory, larger than the modern Italian administrative region, which culturally, linguistically and politically has been historically considered Lombard.