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Gotthard Pass

The Gotthard Pass or St. Gotthard Pass (Italian: Passo del San Gottardo; German: Gotthardpass) at 2,106 m (6,909 ft) is a mountain pass in the Alps traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif and connecting northern Switzerland with southern Switzerland. The pass lies between Airolo in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, and Andermatt in the German-speaking canton of Uri, and connects further Bellinzona and Lugano to Lucerne, Basel, and Zürich. The Gotthard Pass lies at the heart of the Gotthard, a major transport axis of Europe, and it is crossed by three 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). With the Lötschberg to the west, the Gotthard is one of the two main north-south routes through the Swiss Alps.

Gotthard Pass

2,106 m (6,909 ft)

Canton of Ticino, Switzerland
(close to canton of Uri)

Lepontine Alps

46°33′22.5″N 8°34′04″E / 46.556250°N 8.56778°E / 46.556250; 8.56778

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Since the Middle Ages, transit across the Gotthard played an important role in Swiss history, the region north of the Gotthard becoming the nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the 13th century, after the pass became a vital trade route between Northern and Southern Europe.[1] The Gotthard is sometimes referred to as the "King of Mountain Passes" because of its central and strategic location.[2][3]

Gotthard Pass is prominent in the historical series Wolfsmund by Mitsuhisa Kuji.[10]

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List of highest paved roads in Europe

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List of the highest Swiss passes

Tremola San Gottardo

Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.  978-0-7006-3025-7.

ISBN

Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.  978-0-7006-3034-9.

ISBN

Sui passi in bicicletta - Swiss Alpine passes by bicycle, Fontana Edizioni, 2012, p. 78-87. ISBN 978-88-8191-281-0.

Nicola Pfund

Cycling Elevation profiles for both sides on the old road

Free Pictures St. Gotthard Pass

The Gotthard, Switzerland

Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in English)

Sankt Gotthard Pass

(1911). "St Gotthard Pass" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). pp. 6–7.

Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort