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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 ...
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)
Entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel in Italy. In 1946, a drilling project was initiated to carve a tunnel through the mountain. The Mont Blanc tunnel would connect Chamonix, France, and Courmayeur, Italy, and become one of the major transalpine transport routes between the two countries. In 1965, the tunnel opened to vehicle traffic with a length ...
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.
The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday" [2]) is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular tourist destination and can be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc. [3]
Chamonix-Mont Blanc Tunnel Entrance Mont Blanc Tramway (TMB) at the Nid d'Aigle in 1996. Rotating cabin on the Skyway Monte Bianco, Courmayeur. The Mont Blanc massif is accessible by road from within France via the A40–E25, or from Switzerland via Martigny and the Forclaz pass (1,527 m (5,010 ft)), or via Orsières to
The Route nationale 205 is a Route nationale of France that is located entirely within the Department of Haute-Savoie.It starts off from the France–Switzerland border in the commune of Gaillard which is adjacent to Geneva; and ends at Chamonix, at the French side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Thermographic inspection station on the Italian side. The tunnel underwent major changes in the three years it remained closed after the fire. [4] Renovations include computerized detection equipment, extra security bays, a parallel escape shaft and a fire station in the middle of the tunnel complete with double-cabbed fire trucks.