Rigi
The Rigi is a mountain massif of the Alps, located in Central Switzerland. The whole massif is almost entirely surrounded by the water of three different bodies of water: Lake Lucerne, Lake Zug and Lake Lauerz.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rigi Staffel railway station and Rigi Kaltbad-First railway station.
Rigi Staffel railway station
Railway station
Photo: Falk2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rigi Staffel railway station is a railway station at 1,604 m on Rigi at the junction of the rack railways Arth–Rigi railway and Vitznau–Rigi railway, just below the terminus Rigi Kulm. It is located in the municipality of Arth, canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.
Chapel of Mary to the Snow
Church
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapel of Mary to the Snow is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arth and Rigi Kaltbad.
Arth
Town
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Arth is a village, a town, and a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The municipality consists of the villages Arth, Oberarth, and Goldau.
Rigi Kaltbad
Hamlet
Photo: Daniel Reust, CC BY 4.0.
Rigi Kaltbad is a resort in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Lucerne. The resort sits on a sunny terrace at an elevation of 1,433 metres, overlooking Lake Lucerne above Weggis in Central Switzerland.
Greppen
Village
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greppen is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It lies at the base of huge Mount Rigi. The exclave is separated by Lake Lucerne from the rest of the district.
Rigi
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,798 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain, car-free place, and landform
- Location: Canton of Schwyz, Central Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.0567° or 47° 3′ 24″ northLongitude
8.4853° or 8° 29′ 7″ eastElevation
1,798 metres (5,899 feet)Open location code
8FVC3F4P+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26864447OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Rigi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريغي”
- Basque: “Rigi”
- Catalan: “Rigi”
- Cebuano: “Rigi”
- Chinese: “瑞吉峰”
- Chinese: “里吉山”
- Dutch: “Rigi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ريجى”
- Esperanto: “Rigi”
- Finnish: “Rigi”
- French: “Rigi”
- Georgian: “რიგის მთა”
- German: “Rigi”
- Hebrew: “הר ריגי”
- Hebrew: “מלכת האלפים”
- Italian: “Rigi”
- Japanese: “リギ山”
- Korean: “리기 산”
- Korean: “리기산”
- Ladin: “Rigi”
- Latin: “Rigina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rigi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rigi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rigi”
- Polish: “Rigi”
- Russian: “Риги”
- Slovenian: “Rigi”
- Spanish: “Rigi”
- Swahili: “Rigi”
- Swedish: “Rigi”
- Swiss German: “Rigi”
- Tosk Albanian: “Rigi”
- Ukrainian: “Рігі”
- Venetian: “Rigi”
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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 “Rigi”. Photo: Ttrainer, CC BY-SA 3.0.