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The 11.6-km Mont Blanc Tunnel, which opened in 1965, links Chamonix to Courmayeur in Italy. [20] Chamonix is linked to Switzerland by what used to be RN 506a. In 2006, it was converted to a Route Départementale 1506, with a part of it integrated into RN 205. The nearest airport to Chamonix is Geneva Cointrin International and it is 88 ...
Airport name Passengers (2019) Public airports Ambri / Piotta: Ticino: LSPM Ambri Airport: Basel, Switzerland / Mulhouse, France / Freiburg, Germany: Basel (Haut-Rhin (F), Freiburg (D)) LFSB BSL, MLH, EAP EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg: 9,090,312 Bern / Belp: Bern: LSZB BRN Bern Airport (Bern-Belp Airport) 151,621 Bex: Vaud: LSGB Bex ...
Switzerland's 7 busiest airports by passenger traffic in 2011 [7] Rank Airport Location Total passengers Annual change Rank change 1: Zurich Airport: Zürich ...
This is a list of destinations served by Swiss International Air Lines including those served by franchise Helvetic Airways as of January 2023. [1]It includes the city, country, and the airport's name, with the airline's hubs marked.
Geneva Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) – formerly and still unofficially known as Cointrin Airport – is an international airport of Geneva, the second most populous city in Switzerland. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest [4] of the city centre. It surpassed the 15-million-passengers-a-year mark for the first time in December 2014. [5]
The Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway (French: Ligne de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet à Vallorcine), also known as the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine Line, is a single-track 36.5 km (22.7 mi) long metre gauge railway in France connecting the SNCF's Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet station with Vallorcine station and the border with Switzerland (Le Châtelard) through Chamonix. [2]
It links the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, and the Arve valley to St Gervais and Chamonix as well as Annemasse to Annecy. [3] The origins of the project go back to 1850.
The France–Italy border is mainly mountainous. It is 515 kilometres (320 mi) long, [1] in southeast France and northwest Italy. It begins at the west tripoint of France–Italy–Switzerland near the top of Mont Dolent (3,820 m), in the French commune of Chamonix (department of Haute-Savoie), the Italian city of Courmayeur (Aosta Valley) and the Swiss commune of Orsières (canton of Valais