Colle del Lys

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Colle del Lys
Colle del Lys (monumento ai partigiani) .jpg
Compass direction North south
Pass height 1311  m slm
province Turin
Valley locations Viù Almese
expansion Pass road
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Colle del Lys (North Italy)
Colle del Lys
Coordinates 45 ° 10 '40 "  N , 7 ° 22' 57"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 10 '40 "  N , 7 ° 22' 57"  E
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The Colle del Lys (also: Colle del Lis ) is a road pass in the northern Italian metropolitan city of Turin and belongs to the Piedmont region . The top of the pass is at 1311  m slm. The pass is the only paved passage between the Susa and Viù valleys and connects the places Rubiana and Viù .

Resistance Museum

At the top of the pass there is a round tower built in 1955 to commemorate the 2,024 people from the Valli di Lanzo, Susa , Sangone and Chisone who lived during the Resistancea , the resistance against Italian fascism and German occupation, between September 1943 and April 1945 Lost life. In addition, the Ecomuseo della Resistenza 'Carlo Mastri' is now housed in the former Casa Cantoniera.

literature

  • Sabine Bade, Wolfram Mikuteit, Partisan Paths in Piedmont. Places and ways of resistance between Gran Paradiso and Monviso , Querwege Verlag, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-941585-05-8

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