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The Mont Blanc Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Mont-Blanc, Italian: Traforo del Monte Bianco) is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in the Alps. It links Chamonix , Haute-Savoie , France with Courmayeur , Aosta Valley , Italy, via the French Route Nationale 205 and the Italian Traforo T1 (forming the European route E25 ), in ...
The Autostrada A5 or Autostrada della Valle d'Aosta ("Aosta Valley motorway"), in French Autoroute de la Vallée d'Aoste, is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") in Italy located in the regions of Piedmont and Aosta Valley, which connects Turin to France via Ivrea and Aosta, through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
European route 25 near Bard, Italy.. European route E25 is a north–south European route from Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, to Palermo in Italy which includes ferry crossings from Genoa to Bastia (), from Bonifacio to Porto Torres and from Cagliari to Palermo ().
Currently there are only three T-classified tunnels: Mont Blanc Tunnel (T1), Great St Bernard Tunnel (T2) and Frejus Road Tunnel (T4). Tunnels that cross the border between Italy and France (T1, T4) or Switzerland (T2), are treated as motorways (green signage, access control, and so on), although they are not proper motorways.
Great St Bernard Tunnel (Gran San Bernardo / Grosser Sankt Bernhard, road tunnel) Mont Blanc Tunnel (road tunnel through the highest mountain in the Alps) Simplon Tunnel (railway tunnel) Tenda Tunnels (road and railway) Col de Tende Road Tunnel (one of the oldest long road tunnels, 3.2 km) Buco di Viso (mule track, oldest tunnel in the Alps)
Autoroutes are often given a name, even if these are not very used: A1 is the autoroute du Nord (Northern motorway).; A4 is the autoroute de l'Est (Eastern motorway).; A6 and A7 are autoroutes du Soleil (Motorways of the Sun), as both lead from northern France to the sunny beach resorts of southern France.
The Saône valley (Mâcon, A 6) -Italy (Mont Blanc tunnel) link provided, on the one hand, north of Mâcon, by the section of the A 40 motorway (between the A 6 motorway and Saint-André-de-Bagé) and, on the other hand, south of Mâcon, by the national road 79 (between the A 6 motorway and the A 406 motorway) and the A 406 motorway (between ...
The tolls vary according to the building and maintenance costs of the motorway and the type of vehicle. Besides the motorways, only some alpine tunnels (such as the Mont Blanc Tunnel) are tolled. Today, no toll is required on other roads, including motorway-like dual carriageways — (in Italian) superstrade. The first tolled superstrada is ...