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A demarcation agreement, signed on 7 March 1861, defines the local border between France and Italy. Currently this act and the attached maps (showing the border on the top of Mont Blanc, 4810 m) are legally valid for both the French and Italian governments. [7]
The Mont Blanc Tunnel, connecting Courmayeur with Chamonix, opened in 1965, and provides an important road link between Italy and France. In 2013, in accordance with regional law 61 ( Dénomination officielle des communes de la Vallée d'Aoste et protection de la toponymie locale ), a referendum was carried out to change the official name to ...
Skyway Monte Bianco is a cable car in the Italian Alps, linking the town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost of 110 million euros, and is considered to be the world's most expensive cable car installation.
The best weather for mountaineering or hiking occurs between late June to early October but, being the highest part of the Alps, the Mont Blanc massif can create its own weather patterns. Temperatures drop as the mountains gain in height, and the summit of Mont Blanc is a permanent ice cap, [ 7 ] : 24 with temperatures around −20 °C (−4 °F).
Compagnie du Mont-Blanc S.A The Vallée Blanche Cable Car ( Italian : Funivia dei Ghiacciai ; French : Télécabine Panoramic Mont-Blanc , previously Télécabine de la Vallée Blanche ) is a passenger cable car linking a mountain peak above Courmayeur ( Italy ) to a peak above Chamonix ( France ) by passing over the Mont Blanc massif , in the ...
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
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 ...
Twin towns of Montigny-le-Bretonneux Map of France. This is a list of municipalities in France which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).