mountain pass
Col du Mont Cenis
A historic Franco-Italian border crossing with a large summit lake and plateau, once traversed by Napoleon's armies on the route between Turin and Lyon.
12 km · about 20 min drive
Piedmont, Italy · Europe
Novalesa works well as a base: 5 minutes from Venaus, 34km from Colle del Nivolet.
Novalesa is a town located in Piedmont, Italy. With a population of 396, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Novalesa sits in Italy, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Rome time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Novalesa to your route.
Novalesa Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di Novalesa) is a Benedictine monastery in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy. It was founded in 726, and dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Andrew.
Novalesa is in the Val di Susa, on the route to the Mont Cenis Pass, and on the former Via Francigena, a major pilgrimageRead more
road. The abbey is still in operation as an active Benedictine monastery.
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Novalesa is located in Piedmont, Italy, Europe. The coordinates are 45.1906 latitude, 7.0142 longitude.
Novalesa has a population of approximately 396 people, making it a town in Italy.
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mountain pass
A historic Franco-Italian border crossing with a large summit lake and plateau, once traversed by Napoleon's armies on the route between Turin and Lyon.
12 km · about 20 min drive
mountain pass
A legendary 2,178 m Piedmont climb from the Susa Valley: 33 paved hairpins followed by a historic unpaved military road to the summit, made famous by dramatic Giro d'Italia stages.
14 km · about 25 min drive
cafe
A small cafe at the top of the Col de l'Iseran (2,770m), the highest paved pass in the Alps and a key stage of France's legendary Route des Grandes Alpes.
25 km · about 30 min drive
tunnel
A 12.9 km Alpine tunnel linking Modane in France with Bardonecchia in Italy, the main all-year alternative to Mont Blanc on the Lyon-Turin route.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A dramatic Romanesque-Gothic abbey perched atop a rocky peak in the Susa Valley, said to have inspired The Name of the Rose.
28 km · about 30 min drive
famous road
A spectacular dead-end road climbing to 2,612 m through Gran Paradiso National Park, past alpine lakes and glacier scenery; its serpentine final ramps starred in the 2003 film The Italian Job.
34 km · about 40 min drive
national park
Italy's first national park protects glaciers, ibex and the 4,061 m Gran Paradiso, with scenic valley drives and trails.
41 km · about 50 min drive
mountain pass
The 1,566 m wooded warm-up act to the Col du Galibier, climbing out of the Maurienne valley in tight forested hairpins past an old optical-telegraph fort.
45 km · about 50 min drive
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