Festihorn
The Festihorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located west of St. Niklaus in the canton of Valais. It lies on the range south of the Jungtal, between the Sparruhorn and the Wasuhorn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,092 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Festihorn Ost”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sparruhorn and Wasuhorn.
Sparruhorn
Peak
The Sparruhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking St. Niklaus in the canton of Valais. It lies on the range between the Turtmanntal and the Mattertal, although it is located within the Mattertal and not on the watershed between the two valleys.
Wasuhorn
Peak
The Wasuhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located west of St. Niklaus in the canton of Valais. It is the highest summit in the Jungtal. On its northern side lies a glacier named Junggletscher.
St. Niklaus VS railway station
Railway station
Photo: Philipp Gross, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Niklaus VS railway station is a railway station in the municipality of St. Niklaus, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Brig–Zermatt line and is served by local trains only.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St. Niklaus and Gasenried.
St. Niklaus
Village
Photo: Roylindman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Niklaus is a village and a municipality in the Mattertal, part of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Embd
Village
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Embd is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Festihorn
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Niklaus Hombrechtikon, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.17706° or 46° 10′ 37″ northLongitude
7.76591° or 7° 45′ 57″ eastElevation
3,092 metres (10,144 feet)Open location code
8FR95QG8+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 5152599109OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Festihorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيستيورن”
- Bulgarian: “Фестихорн”
- Cebuano: “Festihorn”
- Chinese: “費斯蒂峰”
- Dutch: “Festihorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فيستيورن”
- Ladin: “Festihorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Festihorn”
- Persian: “فستیهورن”
- Swedish: “Festihorn”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sparrulicke and Festihorn Mitte.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Festihorn”. Photo: Debugman, CC BY 3.0.