Monte Sagro
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| Monte Sagro | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,749 m (5,738 ft) |
| Prominence | 489 m (1,604 ft) |
| Isolation | 2.56 km (1.59 mi) |
| Coordinates | 44°06′55″N 10°09′33″E / 44.11528°N 10.15917°E |
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| Location | Tuscany, Italy |
| Parent range | Apuan Alps |
Monte Sagro (1749 m) is a mountain located in the northern part of the in the Apuan Alps or Carrara Mountains, in Tuscany, central Italy, overlooking the city of Carrara.
Etymology
[edit]The name comes from the Latin word sacrum meaning "holy" as it was a sacred place for the ancient Liguri tribe as there were nine stele statues discovered in 1905[1], together with the Monte Bego at the modern boundary between France and Italy.
Geology
[edit]Monte Sagro consistsmainly of layers of banded limestone, marble, grezzoni and permian schist.[2]
The elevation is from the uplift of these rocks and metamorphosis that compressed the limestone to marble and further erosion that shaped the mountain to what it is.
=References
[edit]- ^ admin (2024-06-18). "Mount Sagro". Visit Riviera Apuana. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ^ Preller, Charles S. Du Riche (1918). Italian Mountain Geology ... Dulau.