Airolo is a municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Airolo
View from halfway up St. Gotthard Pass (before entering the Val Tremola) down toward Airolo and the Leventina valley.
Workers on the Gotthard Tunnel, 1880
Forte Airolo
The Leventina District is one of the eight districts of the largely Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The capital of the district is Faido but the largest town is Airolo on the southern flank of the Gotthard Pass.
Leventina valley
Kyanite specimen from Central St. Gotthard Massif, Leventina. This specimen features a 6 cm-long, doubly terminated kyanite in contrasting silvery mica matrix.