The Gazzirola (also known as ''Garzirola'') is a

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of the

Lugano Prealps The Lugano Prealps (''Prealpi Luganesi'' or ''Prealpi Lombarde Occidentali'' in Italian) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Canton Ticino (southern Switzerland) and in Lombardy (northern Italy). Geography A ...

on the

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border. Its summit is the highest point of the

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Lugano Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...

SOIUSA classification

According to the

SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designe ...

(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way: * main part =

Western Alps The Western Alps are the western part of the Alpine Range including the southeastern part of France (e.g. Savoie), the whole of Monaco, the northwestern part of Italy (i.e. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley) and the southwestern part of Switzerland ( ...

* major sector = North Western Alps * section =

* subsection = Prealpi Comasche * supergroup = Catena Gino-Camoghè-Fiorina * group = Gruppo Camoghè-Bar * subgroup = Sottogruppo del Camoghè *

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= I/B-11.I-A.2.a

Mountain huts

Not far from the mountain are located three

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s: Capanna San Lucio (1,540 m), Rifugio San Lucio (1,554 m) and Rifugio Garzirola (1,974 m).

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External links

Gazzirola on Hikr
Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of Lombardy Italy–Switzerland border International mountains of Europe Two-thousanders of Italy Mountains of Ticino Two-thousanders of Switzerland Lugano Prealps {{Como-mountain-stub