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WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT THE ALPS

Added on: 2nd Feb 2016

 

THE LONGEST TUNNEL IN THE WORLD IS SET

TO OPEN IN 2016 THROUGH THE GOTTHARD MASSIF.

IT WILL BE 57KM (35MILES) LONG

tunnel

 

 

IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT 40,000 TO 80,000 MEN

DIED DUE TO AVALANCHES DURING WORLD WAR I

Soldiers in the Alps

 

 

A MUMMIFIED MAN ESTIMATED TO BE 5,000 YEARS

OLD WAS DISCOVERED IN A GLACIER ON THE

AUSTRIAN-ITALIAN BORDER

mummy

 

 

AS WE'VE ALREADY MENTIONED, THE ALPS HAVE A

STRONG CULTURE. TRADITIONAL FARMING, CHEESE MAKING

AND WOOD WORKING ARE STILL POPULAR IN

MANY ALPINE VILLAGES

Cows

 

 

THE ALPS ARE HOME TO 14 MILLION SPREAD ACROSS

THE COUNTRIES OF ITALY, SLOVENIA, SWITZERLAND,

MONACO, LIECHTENSTEIN, GERMANY, FRANCE, AND AUSTRIA

Halstatt

 

 

120 MILLION PEOPLE VISIT THE ALPS EVERY YEAR

Alpine tourists

 

 

CHAMONIX, A CITY IN THE FRENCH ALPS, WAS THE

FIRST TO HOST THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN 1924

Olympics

 

 

THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "ALP" PROBABLY COMES FROM

A PRE-INDO-EUROPEAN WORD MEANING "HILL"

Alpine houses

 


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