词条 | Great Saint Bernard Pass |
释义 | Great Saint Bernard Pass mountain pass, Europe Italian Colle del Gran San Bernardo, French Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard ![]() A road through the pass was not mentioned until AD 69, when the military arrangement of the Roman province of Germania rendered its construction desirable. Remains of this road, about 12 feet (3.7 metres) in width, are still visible, cut into the rock near the lake that lies at the summit of the pass. The temple of Jupiter Poeninus once stood on the summit. Even though the pass was open for only five months a year and was accessible only by foot, it was historically the most important trans-Alpine route and was used by Napoleon and his 40,000 troops in 1800. A famous hospice on the pass, founded by St. Bernard in the 11th century, still provides a resting place and rescue services to travelers, though helicopter rescue and a new road have diminished the hospice's role. The old road (1823) has been partly superseded by a tunnel 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long (completed 1964) beneath the pass, which allows year-round travel and shortens the travel time between Martigny and Aosta by an hour. |
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