Col de Montgenèvre

Col de Montgenèvre (1,854m/6,118ft; winter sports, chair-lifts to 2,600m/8,580ft), formerly an important Alpine pass providing the shortest route between the Po valley and southern France, used by Julius Caesar and in the Middle Ages by the Emperor Barbarossa among many others. Turin via Susa to the Montgenèvre pass (about 95km/59mi)