Airolo
Airolo is a municipality of the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Airolo
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| Coordinates: 46°32′N 8°37′E / 46.533°N 8.617°ECoordinates: 46°32′N 8°37′E / 46.533°N 8.617°E | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Ticino |
| District | Leventina |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sindaco Franco Pedrini |
| Area | |
| • Total | 94.37 km2 (36.44 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,175 m (3,855 ft) |
| Population (December 2002) | |
| • Total | 2,032 |
| • Density | 21.532/km2 (55.768/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) | 6780-6781 |
| Surrounded by | Andermatt (UR), Bedretto, Hospental (UR), Lavizzara, Quinto, Realp (UR), Tujetsch (GR) |
| Website | www SFSO statistics |
Airolo is also a small ski-resort with 30 kilometres of ski slopes.
Airolo Media
View from halfway up St. Gotthard Pass (before entering the Val Tremola) down toward Airolo and the Leventina valley.
Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)
Workers on the Gotthard Tunnel, 1880
Fort Airolo
Type RAe TEE II Swiss trainset 1053 (built in 1961) at Airolo, on a special trip after being restored in 2002/3 as an historic train
Airolo in winter from the Sasso della Boggia
References
Other websites
Media related to Airolo at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Italian)
