Monte Ceneri

Monte Ceneri
Monte Ceneri
Canton/country: Tessin
of - after: Cadenazzo - Lugano
passport height: 554 m and. M.
Passport road builds:
Max. one. Upward gradient: %
length: 29 km
development: Road
winter barrier:

Monte Ceneri is the designation 554 m of a high passport in Swiss canton Tessin. It connects the Magadinoebene which are on approximately 200 m with the Vedeggiotal.

Its special meaning for traffic lies in the fact that it the only internal-Swiss connection between the northern canton part, which Sopraceneri, and the southern canton part, for which Sottoceneri forms. Beside the canton road this barrier is underrun by the motorway tunnel of the a2 and a railway tunnel of the God hard course. In the context of the NEAT becomes a further railway tunnel, which Ceneri Basistunnel between Camorino with Bellinzona and Vezia with Lugano built, which avoids a part of the elevator difference.

The Monte Ceneri is also well-known as location of the national transmitter for italienischsprachige Switzerland, operated on the medium wave frequency 558 kHz.

Further an expanded weapon place of Swiss army is settled around the transmitting tower. In former times the weapon place Monte Ceneri was the center of the pulled artillery. In the context of the abolishment of this branch of service with the army 95 the barracks for the training were umgenutzt by medical, hospital soldiers and drivers.


Coordinates: 46° 08 ' 21 " N, 08° 54 ' 24 " O


 

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