Mont Blanc Tunnel

The execution, which still amazes us today especially considering the difficulty of the site, was completed in just over six years. This was possible by employing over 1,500 people divided into three eight-hour shifts. The workers, just to mention one fact, worked with temperatures that varied from the internal ones of over thirty degrees above zero, to the external ones which dropped over twenty degrees below zero.

It is a cyclopean work also due to its dimensions. In fact, it connects the hamlet of Entréves, in the Courmayeur valley, and the village of Les Pelerins, for a total of 11,600 meters in length.

The Tunnel was officially inaugurated on 16 July 1965 by the Presidents of the Italian and French Republic, Giuseppe Saragat and Charles De Gaulle.