Brè-Aldesago
Brè-Aldesago is a quarter of the city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It occupies the slopes and summit of Monte Brè, and contains the mountain villages of Brè, to the east of the summit, and Aldesago, to the west.Photo: Hadi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: quarter of the city of Lugano, canton of Ticino, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Brè”, “Brè sopra Lugano”, and “Bre-Aldesago”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Fedele and Monte Brè.
Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Fedele
Church
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Fedele is a church.
Monte Brè
Peak
Monte Brè is a small mountain east of Lugano on the flank of Monte Boglia with a view of the bay of Lugano and the Pennine Alps and the Bernese Alps. It is considered one of the sunniest points in Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gandria and Aldesago.
Gandria
Village
Photo: Oberpepe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gandria is both a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, which forms the core of that quarter.
Aldesago
Neighborhood
Aldesago is a village on the western slopes of the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Brè-Aldesago quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Brè-Aldesago was an independent municipality.
Cureggia
Hamlet
Cureggia is a quarter of the city of Lugano, Switzerland. Cureggia was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Lugano in 2004.
Brè-Aldesago
- Categories: quarter of the city of Lugano, former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.01149° or 46° 0′ 41″ northLongitude
8.99682° or 8° 59′ 49″ eastOpen location code
8FRC2X6W+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 832055733OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q1433358
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Brè-Aldesago” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Brè-Aldesago”
- French: “Bre-Aldesago”
- French: “Brè-Aldesago”
- German: “Bre-Aldesago”
- German: “Brè-Aldesago”
- Irish: “Brè-Aldesago”
- Italian: “Bre-Aldesago”
- Italian: “Brè-Aldesago”
- Lombard: “Brè-Aldesagh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brè-Aldesago”
- Turkish: “Brè-Aldesago”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Crus and Carbonera.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Museum Wilhelm Schmid and Zona svago Brè.
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