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CIAO ADRIANO

Across the Alps to Italy via

La Rosière and the Piccolo San Bernardo Pass (2188m)

October 2007

THE ROUTE TO DATE WITH MAPS OF FRANCE AND OF ITS MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE ROADS

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La Rosière (1850m) at the end of a long tortuous road.  But it was, to coin a phrase from schooldays, a really smashing day, there was little traffic and we just ambled up the middle of the unbarriered road

La Rosière (1850m) is at the top of the tree line, then it's on to the Piccolo San Bernardo Pass itself (2188m)

The first sight of the Pilgrim Hospice and the statue of Saint Bernard of Menthon

Looking back towards France from the Pilgrim Hospice (closed) and the statue of Saint Bernard of Menthon

A high voltage transmission line competes with the little chapel and nature even here

Looking towards Italy and the long closed border control point and the closed restaurant

The Gran San Bernardo pass, which crosses the Alps from Italy to Switzerland just to the other side of Monte Bianco (4807m), is 2473m high

Then it's down to Italy along a much better engineered and barriered road (the safety barrier, in the Italian way, displaying a lot of ugly dents and in one place an apparent drive-thru).

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