Grande Traversée des Alpes
The Grande Traversée des Alpes ( GTA ; German: large alpine crossing ) is a long-distance hiking trail through the French Alps. It leads from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea and is part of the French Grande Randonnée GR 5 and the European long-distance hiking trail E2 .
The GTA was developed for tourism by the Association Grande Traversée des Alpes, founded in 1971 , on the basis of the GR 5 created and maintained by the French hiking association Fédération française de la randonnée pédestre . The regions Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes , 7 departments, 205 municipalities, tourism and nature conservation associations as well as representatives of the interests of hikers are organized in this association. The secretariat, with around ten full-time employees, is based in Grenoble . The aims of the association are to introduce a broad public to nature-based activities in the mountains, to publicize and protect the natural and cultural richness of the mountains, and to contribute to the economic survival of the mountain regions. Today, in addition to the GTA / GR5 hiking trail, the association also looks after mountain bike routes (Chemins du Soleil) and tourist roads (Route des Grandes Alpes, les Routes de la Lavande). The GTA launched the Via Alpina in 2000 and managed the international secretariat of this alpine-wide initiative until the end of 2013; it is still responsible for the French part.
In the 1970s, the French GTA was the model for the Grande Traversata delle Alpi, also abbreviated as GTA and partially running parallel, on the Italian side of the western Alps.
Web links
- [fr] http://www.grande-traversee-alpes.com Website of the Association Grande Traversée des Alpes
- [fr] http://www.uneassociationparjour.com/2006/05/lassociation_gr.html About the Association Grande Traversée des Alpes
- [fr] http://www.ffrandonnee.fr Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre, looks after most of the hiking trails in France through its network of volunteers and publishes hiking guides for the GR 5
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- ↑ For the route see article GR 5 .
- ↑ http://www.uneassociationparjour.com/2006/05/lassociation_gr.html
- ↑ http://www.via-alpina.org/de/article/159
- ↑ Luisa Vogt, Regional Development ... (Diss. Erlangen 2008).