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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 .
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).
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.
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 .
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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.