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Mont Soleil
Mont Soleil
	View near the summit
Highest point
Elevation	1,291 m (4,236 ft)
Prominence	221 m (725 ft)
Parent peak	Mont Racine
Coordinates	47°09′55″N 6°59′20″E / 47.16528°N 6.98889°E
Geography
	Mont Soleil Location in Switzerland
Location	Bern, Switzerland
Parent range	Jura Mountains

Mont Soleil is a mountain of the Jura Mountains, located north of Saint-Imier in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. The summit reaches to 1,291 metres (4,236 ft) and the area can be easily accessed with Funiculaire Saint-Imier-Mont-Soleil [fr], a funicular from Saint-Imier, reaching a height of 1,180 m (3,870 ft).

An observatory is located on the summit as well as several wind turbines and a solar park: the former with their presence, the highest is 150 m (490 ft) high, and noise introduced an element of disturbance in the landscape.^[2]

Gallery

View of Chasseral from the solar park
View of the summit with a wind turbine
View of the summit with the wind turbines
Astronomical Observatory
Pension des Eloyes
View of Saint Imier and Mont Soleil
House Peter Widmer

References

^ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is located north of Les Convers at 1,070 metres.
^ Neuenschwander, Pia (31 August 2014). "Im Berner Jura auf dem Mont Crosin befindet sich der älteste und grösste Windpark der Schweiz" [In the Jura Mountains on Mount Crosin one finds the oldest and largest Windpark of Switzerland] (in German). Horizonte Aargau. "Er dreht, dreht, weht der Wind". Retrieved 18 September 2015.