The Monte San Giorgio, which straddles the Swiss-Italian border is surrounded by two branches of Lake Lugano.

In addition to offering hiking routes of natural and scenic interest, Monte is among the most important deposits in the world of fossils from the Middle Triassic: the environment at that time was that of a complex tropical lagoon.

 

The Mount was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003 for the Swiss side, and in 2010 for the Italian one.