Trans-Swiss Trail is a long-distance hiking trail in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. It starts in

Porrentruy Porrentruy (; ; ) is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura. Porrentruy is home to National League team, HC Ajoie. History The first trace of human presence in Porrentruy is a Mesolit ...

in the north near the French border, and cuts south over the Alps to finish in

Lugano Lugano ( , , ; ) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It is the largest city in both Ticino and the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an u ...

. Passing through French, German and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland, the route covers approximately 460 km through a wide variety of landscapes, with altitudes between 235m (in

Bellinzona Bellinzona ( , ; ; is a municipality, a List of towns in Switzerland, historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its Three Castles of Bellinzona, three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sa ...

) to over 2000m (on the

Gotthard pass The Gotthard Pass or St. Gotthard Pass (; ) at is a mountain pass in the Alps traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif and connecting northern Switzerland with southern Switzerland. The pass lies between Airolo in the Italian-speaking canton of Ti ...

). The route is marked with green signposts with the number "2", part of the new national signposting scheme.

External links

* http://www.wanderland.ch/en/changelanguage.cfm?path=%2Frouten%2Froute&pid=167336&nid=55467&place=&etappe=&id=2&sw= * http://www.wandersite.ch/TransSwissTrail.html Hiking trails in Switzerland {{Switzerland-stub