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This article contains a sortable table listing mountains of Italy. All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest-scale maps available. In the list, only the exact location of the culminating point of the mountain is considered.

List

Alps

Apennines

Sicily

Sardinia

Other mountains

See also

• List of volcanoes in Italy
• List of mountains of the Alps
• List of Alpine peaks by prominence
• List of Alpine four-thousanders
• List of Italian regions by highest point

Notes

1. ^ Numbers in italics are estimates because a precise height for the key col is lacking.
2. For the Eastern Alps the range names are according to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps.
3. SOIUSA codes, representing a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps. The codes usually but not always correspond to established ranges. Sorting on this tab puts the mountains in a geographic order, roughly from the southwest to the east.
4. The key col Hochjoch is 2,770 m (9,090 ft) in the literature and per local indications, but appears at least 20 m (66 ft) higher on the maps.
5. East summit. West summit is 3,541 m (11,617 ft). On some maps neighboring Ouille d'Arbéron [fr] is higher.
6. The lowest col between equally high Gletscherhorn and Piz Gallagiun is the 383 m-deep (1,257 ft) Passo de la Prasgnola. They share the 2,694 m (8,839 ft) key col Pass da la Duana.
7. Punta di Scais is a twin peak with Pizzo Redorta, 700 m (2,300 ft) to the south and separated by the 133 m-deep (436 ft) "Passo Scais". They are sometimes given the same height (3,038 m (9,967 ft)). Elsewhere Punta di Scais is 1 or 2 metres (3 ft 3 in or 6 ft 7 in) higher.
8. ^ Equally high Sas Rigais and Furcheta are only 600 m (2,000 ft) apart but joined by the 329 m-deep (1,079 ft) Salieresscharte.
9. ^ Equally high Cima del Sasse & Moiazza Sud are separated by the 363 m-deep (1,191 ft) Forcella delle Sasse
10. A point 2978 on the Italian topographic map, between Tête des Vieux (2,873 m, 9,426 ft) and Têtes de Jeunes (2,785 m, 9,137 ft), has been copied by the Swiss and French topographic maps, but is not supported by the SRTM data nor by the topology of the mountain. It probably was a typo, perhaps for 2778.
11. Commonly given a height of 2,652 m (8,701 ft). This is the height of the top of the north face. The true summit is 100 m (330 ft) SSE.

References

1. ^ All mountain heights and prominences are from the following maps:
   For France the 1:25,000 cartes topographiques of the Institut Géographique National
   For Switzerland the 1:25,000 Swisstopo maps.
   For Austria BEV's Österreichische Karte 1:50.000 supplemented with the 1:25,000 Alpine Club maps where available.
   For Italy the 1:25,000 Istituto Geografico Militare maps via the Geoportale Nazionale website.
   Key cols were verified using the SRTM data based contour lines in the terrain view of Google Maps.
2. Verified and fine-tuned via google terrain and satellite maps.
3. The three main sources for first ascent data are:
   For France and in general; W.A.B. Coolidge, The Alps in nature and history, Methuen & Co, London, 1908.
   For Switzerland; Gottlieb Studer, Über Eis und Schnee: Die höchsten Gipfel der Schweiz und die Geschichte ihrer Besteigung, Volumes 1-3, Schmid & Francke, Bern, 1896-1899.
   For the Eastern Alps: Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, Volumes 1-3, German and Austrian Alpine Club, Berlin, 1894.
   Given are the years for the first recorded ascents. In many cases local people or surveyors made earlier ascents. In particular, chamois and ibex hunters are expected to have reached many summits. Years in italics indicate that it is known that an earlier ascent was made, for example by the presence of artifacts on top or the summit's prior use as a triangulation point.
4. Petter E. Bjørstad, Cima Tosa is lower than Cima Brenta

Sources

• Jonathan de Ferranti & Eberhard Jurgalski's map-checked ALPS TO R589m and rough, computer-generated EUROPE TO R150m lists
• Mark Trengrove's lists of several regions of the French Alps, and of the Grand paradiso and Rutor ranges of the Italian Alps