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The 15,003 m (49,222 ft) Gotthard Rail Tunnel, close to but separate from the expressway tunnel, handles rail traffic on the north-south line in Switzerland. It was opened in 1882, at the time the world's longest tunnel, though later superseded by longer tunnels, some over 50 km (31 mi) long. Under construction since 2002 and opened on 1 June ...
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) Buco di Viso (mule track, oldest tunnel in the Alps)
The Gotthard Base Tunnel, with a length of 57.09 km (35.5 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages, is the longest railway tunnel in the world, [ note 2 ] with a geodetic distance of 55.782 km (34.7 mi) between the two portals. [ 5 ][ 12 ] It is also the first flat route through the Alps or any other major mountain ...
Mont Blanc Tunnel. 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 ...
The Swiss autobahn/autoroute network has a total length (as of April 2012) of 1,763.6 kilometres (1,095.9 mi), of the planned 1,893.5 kilometres (1,176.6 mi), and has, by an area of 41,290 km 2, also one of the highest motorway densities in the world with many tunnels. There are 200 tunnels with a total length of 220 kilometres (140 mi).
The Tour du Mont Blanc or TMB is one of the most popular long-distance walks in Europe. It circles the Mont Blanc massif, covering a distance of roughly 165 kilometres (103 mi) with 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of ascent/descent and passing through parts of Switzerland, Italy and France. It is considered one of the classic long-distance hiking trails ...
The European route E27 is a road in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network, running between Belfort, France and Aosta, Italy.Between these two cities, most of the route passes through French-speaking Switzerland, including a section along the eastern shore of the Lake Geneva, and a mountain section that peaks at just above 1,900 metres in the Great St Bernard Tunnel.
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.