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- Ride this Art Train through the Most Beautiful Route in the Alps. Photo by Karine Basílio. The historic GoldenPass railway that weaves through the Swiss Alps is already beloved for its idyllic views and punctuality. But now, thanks to American artist Sarah Morris, it’s benefitting from a train that doubles as a work of art. Morris unveiled the 54-meter-long train, titled Monarch (2017), in Gstaad, Switzerland, earlier this month, and for the next four years it will transport commuters and tourists between Montreux and Zweisimmen.
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- Rail Europe and you. Welcome to Europe! Travelling by train is the best way to see the wonders of Europe, and with Rail Europe you can see 24 countries and 15,000 cities and towns in Europe with the widest selection of point to point tickets and rail passes.or example, our most flexible Rail Pass is the Eurail Global Pass. This will give you unlimited travel over three months to all of the countries on our network.
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Alps To be able to view it, the Adobe Flash Player plugin for your browser is required. The Great Saint Bernard Pass, in French language named Col du Grand Saint Bernard, runs almost exactly north to south and connects Switzerland, the Canton of Valais (Valais, VS) in the north, to Italy and the Aosta Valley in the south.
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- Eight days from only £749pp. Selected departures April to October 2013. On this wonderfully varied tour we explore Lake Como – one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. Experience the majestic Alps surrounding St Moritz, the amazing lakes of Maggiore and Lugano, and a fantastic rail journey on the Bernina Express.arrow cobbled streets climb to the centre and the many colourful gardens invite you for a stroll. Day 3. Enjoy a day of spectacular scenery and extraordinary Swiss engineering. We ascend the Valtellina to Tirano, where we board the famous Bernina Express – one of the world’s slowest ‘express’ trains.
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- Owner description: The journey to the Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe, at 3454 metres Europe’s highest altitude railway station, is the highlight of every visit to Switzerland. It offers visitors a high-Alpine wonderworld of ice, snow and rock, which can be marvelled at from vantage terraces, the Aletsch Glacier or in the Ice Palace.
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- Depart from Lugano to Zermatt and live the entire Glacier Express journey takes that takes around 8 hours and crosses 291 bridges, passes through 91 tunnels and climbs over the 2033 m high Oberalp pass – this is truly one of the most famous train journeys in the world.
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- With a distinctive European ambience that visitors simply fall in love with, Quebec City is the perfection destination for a romantic train vacation. With a distinctive European ambience that visitors simply fall in love with, Quebec City is the perfection destination for a romantic train vacation. My Cart Travel Agent Login
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Haute Route Backward Haute Route. 1  Day 1: From Zermatt under the Matterhorn up to the Schonbiel Hut. 2  Day 2: Over the Col de Valpelline and up to the Bertol Hut. 3  Day 3: Down then up over Col Collon to the Vignettes Hut. 4  Day 4: Over the Pigne d'Arolla and down Les Portons to Chanrion Hut. 5  Day 5: Across the Otemma Gorge, up & over into the Aosta Valley.
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The Most Beautiful Mountains in the World More than just a ride at Disneyland, the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is quite possibly the most recognizable -- and most photographed -- mountain in the world. For your #nofilter Instagram pic, you're gonna want to take the cable car from Zermatt up to the neighboring peak, Klein-Matterhorn.
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- Engineers have drilled through the last remaining rock to create the world's longest tunnel, under the Swiss Alps. Media caption Imogen Foulkes describes the scene as the drill breaks through the remaining wall of rock. The 10m-diameter drill-head tore through the rock to cheers and applause from watching workers. The 57km (35 mile) Gotthard rail tunnel has taken 14 years to build and is not likely to open before the end of 2016.
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- Created exclusively for Plant Heritage by ECT Travel – a tour in the Swiss Alps with breath-taking scenery, warm Swiss hospitality and extraordinary Alpine flora. For every group booking a donation is made to Plant Heritage.
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- Photography in the Italian Alps: An Artistic Journey into the Heart of the Dolomites – 8 days. Come indulge your senses, while photographing one of the world’s most scenic regions – the Dolomite Mountains – crown jewel of the Alps.he Alta Via N.1, one of the famous “high routes” of the Dolomites, is an incredible trail running tour. Run 87 kilometers in 5 days, moving from hut-to-hut through some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Italian Alps!
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What's An Eye Test? Eye Charts And Visual Acuity Explained Eye charts can be configured in various ways, but generally, if during an eye test you can read the big E at the top but none of the letters lower than that, your vision is considered 20/200. That means you can read at 20 feet a letter that people with normal vision can read at 200 feet.
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Historic Columbia River Highway Hill was especially impressed by Switzerland's Axenstrasse, a road built along Lake Lucerne in 1865 that included a windowed tunnel, and wanted to build a similar scenic highway through the Columbia River Gorge.
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Gotthard Pass The region of the Gotthard Pass is an important north-south axis in Europe and is crossed by three major traffic tunnels, each being the world's longest at the time of their construction: the Gotthard Rail Tunnel (1882), the Gotthard Road Tunnel (1980) and the Gotthard Base Tunnel (2016). 17 km motorway tunnel, the Gotthard Road Tunnel opened in 1980. It was closed for two months in 2001 following a fatal fire. A second rail tunnel through the pass, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, is currently under construction. When completed, it will be the longest rail tunnel in the world at 57 km.
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Rhine River Cruises Rhine River Cruises. The Rhine, Swiss Alps & Amsterdam – 2017. This 10-day trip combines a two-night stay in Berne, the capital of Switzerland, visiting the Jungfrau, “the Top of Europe,” and the Swiss Alps with a weeklong castle-rich Rhine River cruise between Basel and Amsterdam.
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- Private and Regional Rail Roads. 1  Travel free of charge on board local trains (S-Bahn trains) that connects all major German cities. 2  10% discount on the Garmisch Partenkirchen - Grainau - Zugspitzplatt mountain railway route, and discount on some cable cars in the summit area.
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- The Saint Gotthard Pass is a high mountain pass located in central Switzerland, at an elevation of 2.091m (6,860 feet) above the sea level. The first road over the pass was opened in 1830 and connects Airolo in the canton of Ticino, and Goeschenen göschenen in the canton Of. uri highway tunnel under the pass was opened in 1980. With a length of 10.1 miles (16.3 km), it is the longest vehicular tunnel in the world. The surface of the old road to the pass is cobblestoned in the hairpin curves (well-layed, though).
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From Prague to Zurich Train Tickets The ICE. Deutsche Bahn's fastest train: The ICE (Intercity-Express) is the fastest and most comfortable way of travelling on the Deutsche Bahn network, reaching speeds of up to 320 km/h, and new standards of excellence.
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Highest roads of Europe The plate on the road on the en:Col de la Bonette in southeastern France. The two kilometre long teardrop shaped loop around the Cime de la Bonette peak (2860m) from either side of the pass is the highest paved through route in the Alps, the highest asphalted road in France and is the highest through road in Europe..
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- The Aix en Provence TGV train station has made travel to and from the Provence region of France very convenient and rewarding. Aix en Provence, a city of water and art, is a mere 3 hours away from Paris and this train station offers easy connections to Marseille, Toulon, Nice, Monaco and Avignon.
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The best escorted tours A pedal-powered tour is the ideal way to see new sights – and the exercise can be as gentle or as vigorous as you like. Here we select the best from Côtes du Ventoux and Sardinia to Chile and Burma. The best special interest holidays . Bird watching in Champagne? Painting in Croatia? Steam trains in northern France?
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- Photo: “This is the highest point along the highway. ”. Highway 112, or the Kanc, runs from Center Conway to North Woodstock... Highway 112, or the Kanc, runs from Center Conway to North Woodstock, just south of Franconia Notch. Passing through the White Mountain National Forest, it is considered one of the most scenic highways in the U.S. and offers a number of interesting stopping off points. Book In Advance.
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The Longest Tunnel in The World feb. 2014. The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel in the heart of the Swiss Alps expected to open in 2016. With a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages, it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Seikan Tunnel in Japan.
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The world's longest tunnel is finally open Crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. The project consists of two parallel single track tunnels, each of a length of 57 km (35 miles).REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann. Switzerland pulled out all the stops for Wednesday's inauguration.
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World's longest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland under Alps World's longest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland under Alps. World's longest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland under Alps. Measuring 57 km in length, situated 2.3km deep under the Alps and having cost €11bn to complete, Switzerland’s Gotthard base tunnel is more than just the world’s longest and most expensive tunnelling project.