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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 ...
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 ...
Luino (Western Lombard: Lüin) is a small town and comune near the border with Switzerland on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, in the province of Varese, in the Italian region of Lombardy. Luino received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree in 1969.
The Matterhorn (German: [ˈmatɐˌhɔʁn] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈmatərˌhɔrn]; Italian: Cervino [tʃerˈviːno]; French: Cervin; Romansh: Mont(e) Cervin(u) [note 3] or Matterhorn [mɐˈtɛrorn]) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland.
In German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino is nicknamed Sonnenstube (sun porch), owing to the more than 2,300 sunshine hours the canton receives every year, compared to 1,700 for Zurich. [22] The canton can experience particularly heavy storms and rainfalls in summer. It is the region of Switzerland with the highest level of lightning discharge. [23]
A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions. Usually the term implies that the nearness to the border is one of the things the place is most famous for. With close proximities to a different country, diverse cultural traditions can have certain influence to the place.
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. A.
At its closest, the enclave is less than one kilometre (0.6 mi) from the rest of Italy, but the intervening mountainous terrain requires a journey by road through the Swiss village of Bissone of over 14 km (9 mi) to reach the nearest Italian town, Lanzo d'Intelvi, and over 28 km (17 mi) to reach the city of Como.