Mount Marzo

Mount Marzo
Italian: Monte Marzo
French: Mont Mars
Mount Marzo from Soana Valley
Highest point
Elevation2,756 m (9,042 ft)
Prominence292 m (958 ft)
Coordinates45°33′45″N 7°36′32″E / 45.562420°N 7.608850°E / 45.562420; 7.608850
Geography
Mount Marzo is located in Alps
Mount Marzo
Mount Marzo
Location within Alps
LocationProvince of Turin, Italy
Aosta Valley, Italy

Mount Marzo (Italian: Monte Marzo, French: Mont Mars) is a 2,756 m (9,042 ft) tall mountain of the Graian Alps in northern Italy. Its summit lies on the boundary between the municipalities of Valprato Soana and Valchiusa in Piedmont, and Champorcher, in the Aosta Valley, Italy.

Description

Rosa dei Banchi (French: Rose des Bancs) rises on the watershed between the Soana Valley and the Chiusella Valley, in Piedmont, and the Champorcher Valley, in the Aosta Valley. The Chiusella river, which flows through the Chiusella Valley, has its source on the slopes of the mountain.

The summit coincides with the Italian Military Geographic Institute geodetic triangulation point known as Monte Marzo (code 042072). A metal summit cross, erected to commemorate the Holy Year of 1933, stands at the mountain's peak.

SOIUSA classification

According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:

References

  1. ↑ Giulio Berutto; Lino Fornelli (2005). Emilius, Rosa dei Banchi: parco del M. Avic. Guida dei Monti d'Italia (in Italian). San Donato Milanese: CAI & TCI. p. 285.
  2. ↑ Carte technique régionale, Région autonome Vallée d'Aoste: Géonavigateur.

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