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Great St Bernard Pass

Description: Located on the border of Switzerland and Italy at an altitude of 2469m above sea level. / The Great St Bernard Pass is ... more

Great St Bernard Pass ... the most ancient pass through the Western Alps. Just below the pass is a small lake, and several buildings making up the hospice straddle the pass itself. The minor peaks Mont Mort and Pic de Drona flank the pass. The elevation is such that snow may keep the pass closed until June, and indeed the motivation for the hospice was to aid travellers overcome by the difficulties of the crossing.

Newest Review: ... been kept and bred at the St Bernard pass since the C17. At first maybe used as a guard dog, and then its aptitude for sensing avalanches and rescuing people buried in the snow. The Brandy cask is I am afraid a romantic addition painted in an 1820 painting by Sir Edwin Landseer in 1820. I think that St Bernard’s dogs are still bred by monks at the hospice now ,although I am not sure, we ... more

... certainly saw none on the mountainside. Our journey to the pass ~~~~~~~~ We left Aosta and taking the road ss20 marked Saint Bernard’s pass. We passed through and by several small villages/small towns we stopped at one and I bought some bread and ham f...more

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Great St Bernard Pass: St Bernard's pass in the Alps (1099 words)
by - written on 28/08/07 (Very useful, 247 readings)
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When we were on holiday in Italy we were not very far away from the borders with Switzerland. We were near the grand St Bernard’s pass, so one day we had to visit and pop into Switzerland just to look and say we had been there really. There is also a petit Saint Bernard’s pass this is between France and Italy This pass in the ALPS between Switzerland and Italy had been used for many years since before 800 BC. Tribe’s people and traders used this pass to take their wares for sale and Armies used this pass for their troops. Its possible Hannibal and his elephants passed this way also Julius Cesar too, Napoleon led his army of 40,000 troops over the ... Read the complete review