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    The Simplon Hospice is a large building where travellers and merchants can get food, accommodation and shelter from the harsh climate. In a decree of...
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    used the Simplon route intermittently during the twentieth century, as it carried passengers between Istanbul and Paris. The Hospice du Simplon, at the...
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    the hamlets of Gabi, Egga and Maschihüs as well as the Hospiz (Hospice) in the Simplon Pass. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a bicephalous...
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    went to Rome and travelers in general: the Great St. Bernard Hospice and the Simplon Hospice. There are also interesting Roman remains, such as the amphitheater...
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    5 hours and is generally a fairly easy hike. It runs from the old Simplon Hospice, a Swiss heritage site of national significance, past the Kaltwasser...
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    lake near Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The water of the lake powers a small turbine in the monastery Simplon Hospice. The distance...
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    (Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden) and Italy (Piedmont and Lombardy). The Simplon rail tunnel (from Brig to Domodossola), the Gotthard rail (from Erstfeld...
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    road axis connecting Valais with northern Italy, the other axis being the Simplon Pass. The pass runs northwest–southeast through the Valais Alps (formerly...
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    Swiss side. If you need accommodation on the pass, you have Simplon Hospiz (Hospice du Simplon). To climb Hübschhorn you start walking from the road towards...
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  • Sion Priory or Abbey near Klingnau (Aargau): Benedictine monks Simplon Hospice on the Simplon Pass: Augustinian Canons Steinen Priory (Kloster in der Au,...
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    destinations in Switzerland and Italy the toll-free St Gotthard Tunnel and Simplon Pass offer more direct or at least faster routes. This and the toll ensure...
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    and has a surface of 3.94 hectares. South of Lago della Piazza are the Hospice (Italian: Ospizio) and National Museum, as well as a hotel and restaurants...
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    Bernard Pass, the Col de Tende, the Gotthard Pass, the Semmering Pass, the Simplon Pass, and the Stelvio Pass. Crossing the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner...
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    roads are closed in winter, although important road links such as the Simplon remain open through the year. This list does not include any motorway as...
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    the Western Alps (excluding the part from the chain of Mont Blanc to the Simplon Pass, which followed the fortunes of the Valais), a prolonged struggle...
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    it was the capital of a sub-prefecture of the French department of the Simplon. In 1822 the towns of Vérossaz and Evionnaz separated from the municipality...
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  • 46.216918°N 7.000619°E / 46.216918; 7.000619 7124 Hospice et chapelle St-Jacques Avenue du Simplon 1 566.510 118.500 46°13′02″N 7°00′17″E / 46.217114°N...
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    Romana, had among their stops the Sant'Erasmo hospice in Legnano. Legnano was the fourth stop from the Simplon Pass and the last before Milan; from the Milanese...
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    orders to open from there could be no other than the St. Bernard, the Simplon, the Theodul, and the Moro; it therefore seems likely that the name of...
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  • hospitality to pilgrims and travelers on the Great St. Bernard and on the Simplon, and in former times the hospitals of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield, in...
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  • Hospice with outbuildings library, museum and archives...
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