Col d'Allos

Col d'Allos
Passport sign
Compass direction	North	south
Pass height	2247  m
Department	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Watershed	Bachelard	Verdon
Valley locations	Barcelonnette	Allos
expansion	paved road (D908)
Built	1891
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Mountain scoring	1	1
Ø pitch	6.3% (1108 m / 20.5 km)	5.4% (812 m / 15 km)
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Coordinates	44 ° 17 '49 "  N , 6 ° 35' 39"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 17 '49 "  N , 6 ° 35' 39"  E

The Col d'Allos is a road pass in the French department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence . The pass is at 2247  m . The crossing connects Barcelonnette ( 1150  m ) in the Ubaye valley with Allos , Colmars ( 1261  m ), where the road over the Col des Champs also starts, and Saint-André-les-Alpes ( 889  m ).

geography

Like the parallel north-south connections Col de la Cayolle and Col de la Bonette, the Col d'Allos is located in the Mercantour National Park of the French Maritime Alps . The Verdon River rises near the top of the pass and later runs through the spectacular Grand Canyon du Verdon .

Col d'Allos, view

Racing bike use

Tour de France

The Col d'Allos was always on the Tour de France program between 1911 and 1939 . With 34 crossings, it is one of the ten most frequently used passes on the Tour of France. In the last few decades, however, it has rarely been taken into account, for the last time in the 17th stage of the Tour of 2015 (as of July 2015). Most recently he was assigned to the 1st category in the mountain classification.

List of cyclists who were the first to reach the pass at the corresponding stages of the tour:

1911 : François Faber Luxembourg  1912 : Octave Lapize France  1913 : Lucien Petit-Breton France  1914 : Firmin Lambot Belgium and Henri Pélissier France    1919 : Honoré Barthélémy France  1920 : Firmin Lambot Belgium  1921 : Hector Heusghem Belgium and Honoré Barthélémy France    1922 : Jean Alavoine France  1923 : Henri Pélissier France  1924 : Nicolas Frantz Luxembourg  1925 : Auguste Verdyck Belgium  1926 : Lucien Buysse Belgium  1927 : Nicolas Frantz Luxembourg  1928 : Nicolas Frantz Luxembourg  1929 : Joseph Demuysere Belgium  1930 : Benoit Faure France  1931 : Joseph Demuysere Belgium

1932 : Benoit Faure France  1933 : Fernand Fayolle France  1934 : René Vietto France  1935 : Félicien Vervaecke Belgium  1936 : Julian Berrendero Spain  1937 : Mario Vicini Italy  1938 : Gino Bartali Italy  1939 : Edward Vissers Belgium  1947 : René Vietto France  1948 : Jean Robic France  1949 : Fausto Coppi Italy  1957 : Louis Bergaud France  1967 : Georges Chappe France  1969 : Luis Pedro Santamarina Spain  1975 : Eddy Merckx Belgium  2000 : Pascal Hervé France  2015 : Simon Geschke Germany

tourism

Together with the Col des Champs and the Col de la Cayolle, the Col d'Allos forms a popular circuit for racing cyclists. Both climbs are equipped with special signs for cyclists . While these signs are placed at intervals of approximately one kilometer on the ascent of Barcelonnette , they are placed at wider and irregular intervals on the ascent of Colmars . In July and August, the Col d'Allos is reserved for cyclists on Friday mornings from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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  One of the special kilometer markers for cyclists on the ascent of Barcelonnette

Web links

Commons : Col d'Allos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le dico du Tour - Le col d'Allos dans le Tour de France depuis 1947 (French), accessed on July 22, 2015.
2. ↑ Le col d'Allos (French) accessed on July 5, 2010; Le dico du Tour - Le col d'Allos dans le Tour de France depuis 1947 (French), accessed July 22, 2015.
3. ↑ See for example Cayolle-Champs-Allos - Bikemap - Your bike routes online (in English) . bikemap.net. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
4. ↑ Cycling - Pra Loup (in English) . Valée Ubaye. Retrieved August 11, 2014.