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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.
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Great St Bernard Pass; San Bernardino Pass; ... (pass) Little St Bernard Pass; Livigno Pass; Ljubljana Gap;
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.
The most ancient pass of the Western Alps is the Great St Bernard Pass, used as far back as the Bronze Age and showing traces of a Roman road. [4] Napoleon crossed the Alps here in May 1800, depicted in an idealized view by Jacques-Louis David in Napoleon Crossing the Alps and, less idealized, by Hyppolyte Delaroche in Bonaparte Crossing the Alps.
St Bernard Pass may refer to: Great St Bernard Pass crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny, Switzerland and Aosta, Italy Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy
Z'Meiden Pass Zinal to Turtmann bridle path 2,772 9,095 Turlo Pass Alagna to Macugnaga footpath 2,736 8,977 Fenêtre de Ferret Great St Bernard to the Swiss Val Ferret bridle path 2,699 8,855 Bettaforca Pass [3] (Bättforko) Ayas to Gressoney-La-Trinité bridle path 2,676 8,780 Col Serena Great St Bernard to Morgex: footpath 2,538 8,327 Col Ferret
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