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The border is a product of the Napoleonic period, established with the provisional constitution of the Helvetic Republic of 15 January 1798, restored in 1815. While this border existed as a border of Switzerland from 1815, there was only a unified Italian state to allow the existence of a "Swiss-Italian border" with the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, it previously comprised the ...
The two countries share a long border, three common official languages (Italian is one of Switzerland's four official languages, German and French are recognised minority languages in Italy; moreover, Romansh is close to Ladin and Friulian, spoken in Northern Italy) and a regional language (Lombard spoken in Canton Ticino in Switzerland and ...
Italy–Switzerland border crossings (21 P) L. Lugano Prealps (20 P) M. Matterhorn (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Italy–Switzerland border" The following 177 pages ...
Smaller glaciers lie at the base of the south face (the Lower Matterhorn Glacier) and the east face (unnamed). In this area, the border between Switzerland and Italy coincides with the main Alpine watershed, separating the drainage basin of the Rhone on the north (Mediterranean Sea) and that of the Po on the south (Adriatic Sea).
Part of the border will be redrawn because of the glacial melt, in another sign of how much humans are changing the world by burning planet-heating fossil fuels. Italy and Switzerland have agreed ...
Pages in category "Italy–Switzerland border crossings" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Eastern Switzerland supported a line through the Splügen Pass or the Lukmanier Pass, Central Switzerland and Zürich favoured the Gotthard Pass and Western Switzerland supported the Simplon route. In 1871, the first line was completed through the Alps, connecting Italy and France with the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
The Grenzgipfel is the highest summit on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif and the highest point of the entire border between Italy and Switzerland; it is also the culminating point of the Italian region of Piedmont and of the Ticino river drainage basin. The closest locality is Macugnaga, which is located east of the Monte Rosa Massif.