Breithorn
The Breithorn is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps in the Valais. It is part of the municipality Grengiols and overlooks the lower Goms on the north side and the Saflischtal on the south side, east of the Bättlihorn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lax railway station and Saint Michael Church.
Lax railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gestumblindi, CC BY 3.0.
Lax railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Lax, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Furka Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and is served by local trains only. Lax railway station is situated 4 km northwest of Breithorn.
Saint Michael Church
Church
Photo: Amagra lacroix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Michael Church is situated 3½ km east of Breithorn.
St. Antonius chapel
Church
Photo: Zinat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Antonius chapel is a church, which is situated 4 km north of Breithorn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ausserbinn and Schmidighischere.
Ausserbinn
Hamlet
Photo: Zinat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ausserbinn is a former municipality of the canton of Valais, Switzerland, and now part of the municipality of Ernen. Prior to its incorporation within Ernen, it was one of Switzerland's smallest municipalities with a population of only 47 as of 2000. Ausserbinn is situated 3 km north of Breithorn.
Schmidighischere
Village
Photo: Whgler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schmidighischere is a village, which is situated 3½ km east of Breithorn.
Lax
Village
Photo: Berger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lax is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Lax is situated 4 km north of Breithorn.
Breithorn
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Description: mountain in Canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Categories: mountain, tourism, and peak
- Location: Grengiols, Raron District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.35665° or 46° 21′ 24″ northLongitude
8.13869° or 8° 8′ 19″ eastElevation
2,599 metres (8,527 feet)Open location code
8FRC944Q+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 11240396507OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointWikidata ID
Q4960449
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Breithorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريتورن”
- Cebuano: “Breithorn”
- Chinese: “布赖特峰”
- Dutch: “Breithorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريتورن”
- Ladin: “Breithorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Breithorn i Saflischtal”
- Persian: “بریتورن (گرنژیول)”
- Persian: “بریتورن”
- Spanish: “Breithorn (Saflischtal)”
- Swedish: “Breithorn”
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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 “Breithorn”. Photo: RobK1964, CC BY 2.0.