Aosta - Great St Bernard

There is a very fine excursion northwest from Aosta on the S.S. 27, with sharp turns and hairpin bends to the Vallée du Grand-St-Bernard up the Great St Bernard pass (2,649m/8,148ft). There is also a road tunnel 5,828m/6,376yd long, between St-Rhémy and Bourg-St-Bernard on the Swiss side. The pass, which lies between the Mont Blanc massif and the Valais Alps (small lake), marks the Italian-Swiss frontier. In Swiss territory is the hospice (dog breeding), founded by St Bernard (d. 1086).