The Cristallina Hut (German ''Cristallinahütte'', Italian ''Capanna Cristallina'') is a

mountain hut A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...

of the

Swiss Alpine Club The Swiss Alpine Club (, , , ) is the largest mountaineering club in Switzerland. It was founded in 1863 in Olten and it is now composed of 110 sections with 174,726 members (2023). These include the Association of British Members of the Swiss ...

, located in the

Lepontine Alps The Lepontine Alps (, , ) are a mountain range in the north-western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais, Ticino, Canton of Uri, Uri and Graubünden) and Italy (Piedmont and Lombardy). The Simplon Tunnel, Simplon rail tunnel ...

in the Swiss canton of

Ticino Ticino ( ), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eight districts ...

--specifically, On the west side of the

Cristallina The Cristallina is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, located in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It is situated between the valleys of Leventina, Val Bavona and Valle di Peccia (the latter two belonging to the Valle Maggia Valle Maggia ( English, "Ma ...

mountain. The original Cristallina Hut was built in 1939, but was almost completely destroyed during an avalanche in 1999, the third avalanche to cause the hut serious damage. It was rebuilt in 2002, 150 meters lower, on the Cristallina Pass, situated between the Bavona valley and the

Val Bedretto Bedretto () is a municipality and a village in the Val Bedretto, the upper most part of the river Ticino. It belongs to the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. History In 1906, pre-Roman graves and a Roman era villa an ...

, at an altitude of 2575 meters. The new hut was designed by Baserga Mozzetti, of

Muralto Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Geography Muralto has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.3% is forested. Of the rest of the la ...

.Bruno Jenni, "Natur und Artefakt". In ''Werk, Bauen + Wohnen'' (Swiss edition), 87.7/8 (2000): 66–69. From Ossasco (Val Bedretto) the hut is reached in about three and a half hours; from

Fusio Fusio is a village and former municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. In 2004 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Broglio, Brontallo, Menzonio, Peccia and Prato-Sorn ...

in six and a half hours. It has 120 beds, divided over 17 rooms. It is open from the end of June to the beginning of October, and occasionally during the winter as well. File:Cristallinahuette.jpg File:Campana Cristallina SAC.JPG File:Cristallina_innen.jpg, interior

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External links

Official website
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