Piccolo San Bernardo - Colle dell' Iseran


450  km.

         Today we spend on Sundays some different, because after having crossed the highway A5 and her government 26 of the Valley of Aosta, to of the averages from code and absorbed in the warm one and in the traffic, there we taste a good lunch to the hill of the Small San Bernard.  

        The highway we cross it up to the chief town, then we go out and we cross all the government until to Prč Saint Didier, the circulation is forcedly slow because of the a lot of traffic, but after having turned the road it begins to climb dipping himself with ample curves in dense pinete, up to emerge in basin of the pass in the characteristic country of the La Thuile; we take advantage for doing the full one and then we leave again for a beautiful and animated road in climbed that brings us up to the hill  As I have said we consume a good lunch to the shelter, dear but seen there not the place and the quality can complain! the hill today perhaps of according to plan has been in the millennia of great passage, in fact we can find you beginning from the slope, Italian, a monument megalitic formed by 46 upright stones and regularly silver wares owed to the celti, the column of giove of Roman epoch, the hospice of St. Bernard of the X century, his/her statue and the alpine garden of Chanousia with over 1300 vegetable kinds.  

        Left again reluctantly we go down in the warm fund French valley, taking the beautiful val of Isere that we cross all up to her characteristic chief town, from here we go up again up to the coolness of the 2770 ms. of the hill of the Iseran, the road is beautiful and dares more some, perhaps frustrated by the highway of the morning!  

        Unfortunately we have to return, then we go down the hill and we direct there toward Lanslebourg, the road it is beautiful with a I asphalt that allows us beautiful folds up to climb to the Moncenisio, where unfortunately he dirties and he deteriorates; in top we find unwillingly a crowd of people looking for some coolness and us we tabulate there in the traffic of the reentry reaching Susa and crossing his/her valley up to house.

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