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
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT 40,000 TO 80,000 MEN
DIED DUE TO AVALANCHES DURING WORLD WAR I
A MUMMIFIED MAN ESTIMATED TO BE 5,000 YEARS
OLD WAS DISCOVERED IN A GLACIER ON THE
AUSTRIAN-ITALIAN BORDER
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
THE ALPS ARE HOME TO 14 MILLION SPREAD ACROSS
THE COUNTRIES OF ITALY, SLOVENIA, SWITZERLAND,
MONACO, LIECHTENSTEIN, GERMANY, FRANCE, AND AUSTRIA
120 MILLION PEOPLE VISIT THE ALPS EVERY YEAR
CHAMONIX, A CITY IN THE FRENCH ALPS, WAS THE
FIRST TO HOST THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN 1924
THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM "ALP" PROBABLY COMES FROM
A PRE-INDO-EUROPEAN WORD MEANING "HILL"
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