• operation as a tourist line. Both railways used the Riggenbach system. Mont Cenis Pass Railway; temporary while main tunnel built. Vesuvius Funicular (1880–1944;...
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    less than forty thousand men. Having crossed the Cottian Alps at the Mont Cenis pass, he first came to Segusium (Susa, Italy), a heavily fortified town...
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    On 2 February, Charles Albert departed and on the 6th he reached Mont Cenis, where he received orders to enter Turin by night, in order to avoid protests...
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    practicable for motor vehicles: the Little Saint Bernard Pass, the Mont Cenis, the Col de Montgenèvre, the Maddalena Pass (Col de Larche) and the Col...
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    the holy banner; but the colours of our spring and our country, from Mont Cenis to Etna; the snows of the Alps, the April of the valleys, the flames of...
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    it was invited to submit a design for a monument to be erected on Mont-Cenis; among the entries admitted to the competition were Giuseppe Manetti's Colossus...
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  • Population: 207,770. 1878 - Museum of the Risorgimento established. 1879 - Mont Cenis Tunnel Monument erected in Piazza Statuto. 1889 - Mole Antonelliana built...
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    César van Loo French View of the hotel at Novalaise at the foot of Mount Cenis, in the winter season 1826 Charles-André van Loo French The artist in his...
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