Little Saint Bernard

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Little Saint Bernard
The summit of the little St. Bernard pass from the south with a view of Mont Blanc

The summit of the little St. Bernard pass from the south with a view of Mont Blanc

Compass direction southwest Northeast
Pass height 2188  m
region Département Savoie , France Region Vallée d'Aoste , Italy
Watershed Isère → Rhone Dora Baltea → Po
Valley locations Bourg-Saint-Maurice Pré-Saint-Didier
expansion D 1090 S26
Mountains Graian Alps
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Ø pitch 4.5% (1184 m / 31 km) 5.1% (1380 m / 22.6 km)
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Little Saint Bernard (North Italy)
Little Saint Bernard
Coordinates 45 ° 40 '49 "  N , 6 ° 53' 2"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 40 '49 "  N , 6 ° 53' 2"  E

The Little Saint Bernard ( French Col du Petit Saint-Bernard ; Italian Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo ) is a 2188  m slm high pass in the Graian Alps , which connects the Isèretal in the French department of Savoy with the Aosta Valley . The pass road was built by Napoleon III.

The border between France and Italy runs at the top of the pass . After the Italian declaration of war on France on June 10, 1940 during World War II , armed conflicts took place around the pass, in the course of which 600 people were killed on the Italian side alone.

The prehistoric stone circle of the Little St. Bernard lies on the watershed .

On the French side there is a monolith just before the top of the pass . He once carried a statue of the Roman god Jupiter , today that of the Christian Saint Bernard of Menthon . He is said to have founded the hospice on the pass, of which only a ruin remains. The Little Saint Bernhard is one of several possibilities for Hannibal's train across the Alps.

Little Saint Bernard has been on the Tour de France program four times so far : 1949, 1959, 1963 and 2009.

Web links

Commons : Little St Bernard Pass  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FW Walbank: Some Reflections on Hannibal's Pass . In: Cambridge University Press (Ed.): The Journal of Roman Studies . 46, 1956, pp. 44-45.Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Philip Ball: The Truth about Hannibal's Route across the Alps . In: The Guardian . 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Mary Harrsch: Hannibal's Route over the Alps or just Horse S ***? . In: Roman Times - An Online Magazine about Current Archeological and Classical Research . 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ List on the official website of the Tour de France ( Memento of July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  5. ↑ Report to 20 minutes online