Monte San Giorgio is a Swiss mountain and UNESCO World Heritage Site near the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is part of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in the Swiss Canton of Ticino.
Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain, rising to 1,097 m above sea level. It has a roughly pyramidal shape, with a steep north edge sloping towards Lake Lugano and a more shallow South Slope extending towards the Po Plain. The eastern side of the mountain, between the municipalities of Brusino Arsizio, Riva San Vitale, and Meride, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2003. This was in recognition of its cultural, biological, and especially paleontological significance. The site is renowned for its fossil content, one of the best known records of marine life in the Middle Triassic period. The Italian region west of Poncione d'Arzo was added as an extension to the World Heritage Site in 2010.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_San_Giorgio
More information on UNESCO's website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1090
landingPages.LANDING_PAGE.DETAIL.ADDRESS 6826, Switzerland
landingPages.LANDING_PAGE.DETAIL.COORDINATES 45°54'49.547" N 8°56'59.606" E
