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Valle Anzasca
The Anza is a Alpine torrent of the Ossola in northern Italy. It flows from the glaciers of Monte Rosa : , other_name = Monte Rosa massif , translation = Mount Rose , photo = Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa) and Monte Rosa Glacier as seen from Gornergrat, Wallis, Switzerland, 2012 August.jpg , photo_caption = Central Mon ... through the Valle Anzasca and into the river Toce, of which it is a right tributary. Its own principal tributaries are the Pedriola, the Tambach, the Orlovono and the Quarazza near Macugnaga and the Olocchia at Bannio Anzino. Sources :''This original version of this article included text translated from its counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia.'' Rivers of Italy Rivers of the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Rivers of the Alps {{Italy-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belvedere Glacier
, photo = Monte Rosa east face.jpg , photo_caption = The east face of Monte Rosa with the glacier at the bottom , type = Valley glacier , location = Valle Anzasca, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB), Piedmont, Italy , coordinates = , map = Alps#Northern Italy , label_position = right , map_width = , map_alt = , map_caption = Glacier's location in the Alps , area = , length = , thickness = , terminus = Alpe Burki , status = receding , embedded = The Belvedere Glacier ( it, Ghiacciaio del Belvedere) is a valley glacier located above Macugnaga of the Valle Anzasca in the region of Piedmont. The glacier lies at the base of the east face of Monte Rosa. It reaches approximately above sea level at its highest point and terminates near the Alpe Burki at about . The glacier is mostly covered by rocks. The glacier is fed by the snows and glaciers on the east side of Monte Rosa, including the Ghiacciaio del Monte Rosa, not to be confused with the Monte Rosagletscher on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Italy
This is a list of rivers which are at least partially located in Italy. They are organized according to the body of water they drain into, with the exceptions of Sicily and Sardinia, which are listed separately. At the bottom, all of the rivers are also listed alphabetically. Italian rivers are generally shorter than those of other European regions because Italy is partly a Italian Peninsula, peninsula along which the Apennines, Apennine chain rises, dividing the waters into two opposite sides. The longest Italian river is the Po (river), Po, which flows for along the Po Valley. Rivers in Italy total about 1,200, and give rise, compared to other List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe, European countries, to a large number of marine mouths. This is due to the relative abundance of rain events in Italy, and to the presence of the Alps, Alpine chain rich in snowfields and glaciers in the northern part of the country, in the presence of the Apennines in the cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Wikipedia
The Italian Wikipedia ( it, Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of , , it has articles and more than registered accounts. It is the -largest Wikipedia by the number of articles (after the English, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Cebuano, Russian, and Spanish editions). History As early as March 2001, Jimmy Wales, the creator and co-founder of the original English language Wikipedia, had proposed the creation of parallel Wikipedia projects in other languages. The Italian-language version was among the first ones to be created, in May 2001. The original URL was , while the standardized ISO 639 address became active a few days later. Afterwards, Wikipedia sites switched their domains from to . The very first pages (circa five hundred) were simply untranslated copies from the English-language Wikipedia; the first edits were made from June 11, 2001, onwards. One of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bannio Anzino
Bannio Anzino (pop. 539) is a ''commune'' of the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Verbania. The main population centres within the municipality are the ''frazioni'' Bannio (site of the town hall), Pontegrande and Anzino (formerly a commune in its own right‘Anzino’ in Goffredo Casalis (ed.), ''Dizionario geografico, storico, statistico, commerciale degli stati di S.M. il re di Sardegna'' (Turin: G. Maspero, 1833), pp. 309–310.); further localities include Case Fornari, Case Prucci, Case Rovazzi, Castelletto, Fontane, Gaggieto, Parcineto, Scalaccia, and Valpiana. Bannio Anzino borders the following municipalities: |
Macugnaga
Macugnaga ( Walser German: ''Z'Makana'') is a mountain village and a comune at elevation, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the north of the Piedmont region of Italy. It is located at the base of Monte Rosa (), the second-tallest mountain in western Europe, along Valle Anzasca, one of the seven valleys around the mount. Sights in the town include the Chiesa Vecchia (old church) and its linden also of the 13th century, the ''Chiesa Nuova'' (new church) built in 1707, the 17th century ''Casa Pala''. The town also houses a museum of mountaineering, while in the hamlet of Borca is the Walser Museum, devoted to the local German population who colonised the valley during the Middle Ages coming from the Swiss canton Wallis. The area gives many opportunities for skiing in winter (a cableway brings from the central square of the town to the 3000 m (9800 ft) of the Passo del Monte Moro on the border with Switzerland), and hiking and mountaineering in summer. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toce
The Toce () is a river in Piedmont, Italy, which stretches the length of the Val d'Ossola from the Swiss border to Lake Maggiore into which it debouches near Fondotoce in the commune of Verbania. The river is long and is formed in the upper Val Formazza by the confluence of a number of torrents in the plain of Riale. Geography The source of one of these, the Gries, is situated on the Italian southern side of the Gries Pass; another forms beneath the Passo di San Giacomo, others flow from little Alpine lakes such as Lago Castel and Lago di Sabbione. South of La Frua the water of the river plummets over the Cascata del Toce into the Formazza Valley, through which it flows before transversing Valle Antigorio after another series of cascades. Near Crevola d'Ossola the river Diveria flows into the Toce. At this point, the valley gets wider and is known as Val d'Ossola. The Toce flows next to the capital of the valley, Domodossola, and then Villadossola and Ornavasso. After a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
