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The tunnel and most of the connecting roads between Aosta and Martigny are only single-carriageway roads, and for most relevant city destinations in Switzerland and Italy the toll-free St Gotthard Tunnel and Simplon Pass offer more direct or at least faster routes. This and the toll ensure that the Grand San Bernard Tunnel rarely suffers from ...
The Great St Bernard Pass is located near the western end of the Valais Alps, the next pass to the west, Col Ferret, marking the transition with the Mont Blanc massif.In that area, between Mont Dolent and Mont Vélan, the main crest of the Alps barely reaches 3,000 metres, unlike in the much higher section of the Valais Alps east of Mont Vélan and Grand Combin.
Mont Cenis Tunnel (railway) and Fréjus road tunnel; 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)
railway tunnel St. Gotthard: Uri/Ticino: Göschenen UR - Airolo TI: 1882: 1141 railway tunnel Vereina Tunnel: Grisons: Klosters - Susch: 1999: 1430 railway tunnel with car transport Vue des Alpes: Neuchâtel: Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds 1040 railway tunnel Weissenstein: Solothurn: Oberdorf - Gänsbrunnen: 1908: 732 railway tunnel Wolfgang ...
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Printable version; In other projects ... This list of tunnels in Switzerland includes all notable road, rail, ... Great St Bernard Tunnel: 5.798: road: Grenchenberg ...
Thus the passes which crossed a single ridge, and did not involve too great a detour through a long valley of approach, became the most important and the most popular, e.g. the Mont Cenis, the Great St Bernard, the St Gotthard, the Septimer and the Brenner. [3] As time went on the Alpine passes were improved to make travel easier.
View from the lake. The Great St Bernard Hospice (French: Hospice du Grand St-Bernard; Italian: Ospizio del Gran San Bernardo; German: Hospiz auf dem Grossen St. Bernhard), named after its founder Bernard of Menthon, [1] is a hospice and hostel for travelers at the Great St Bernard Pass in Switzerland.