Savoie
Arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Val-Cenis

Mont Cenis Pass

Mont Cenis Pass is a mountain saddle in , , and has an elevation of 2,086 metres. Mont Cenis Pass is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near the locality .
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  • Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 2,086 metres
  • Description: mountain pass in the Alps
  • Also known as: “Col du Mont-Cenis” and “Mont Cenis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Signal du Petit Mont-Cenis and Val Cenis Vanoise.

Peak
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The is a 3,162 m high mountain of the .

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Val Cenis is a ski and mountain resort situated in the Haute-Maurienne region of the , close to the border. It is composed of five villages; , , , and Bramans.

Reservoir
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is a located in the Mont-Cenis massif at an altitude of 1,974 meters in the municipality of in France. It is situated at the top of the Cenise valley, on the Italian side of the Mont-Cenis pass, the most frequented passage on the Lyon-Turin-Milan axis during the Middle Ages between Western Europe and the Italian peninsula.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lanslevillard and Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis.

Village
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is a former commune in the department in the region in south-eastern . Part of its territory is home to the ski resort.

Village
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is a former commune in the department in the region in south-eastern . On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Mont Cenis Pass

Latitude
45.25983° or 45° 15′ 35″ north
Longitude
6.90088° or 6° 54′ 3″ east
Elevation
2,086 metres (6,844 feet)
Open location code
8FQ87W52+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2178653980
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­saddle
Geo­Names ID
2992851
Wiki­data ID
Q13411496
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In Other Languages

From Aragonese to Ukrainian—“Mont Cenis Pass” goes by many names.
  • Aragonese: “Paso d’o Mont Cenis”
  • Arpitan: “Col du Mont-Cenis”
  • Bulgarian: “Мон Сени”
  • Catalan: “Coll del Mont Cenis”
  • Catalan: “Pas del Mont Cenis”
  • Cebuano: “Col du Mont Cenis”
  • Chinese: “塞尼山”
  • Danish: “Col du Mont Cenis”
  • Danish: “Mont Cenis”
  • Dutch: “Col du Mont Cenis”
  • Dutch: “Col du Mont-Cenis”
  • French: “col du Mont-Cenis”
  • French: “Col du Mont-Cenis”
  • Georgian: “მონ-სენის უღელტეხილი”
  • German: “Col du Mont Cenis”
  • German: “Mont-Cenis-Pass”
  • Hebrew: “מעבר מון סני”
  • Hungarian: “col du Mont Cenis”
  • Hungarian: “colle del Moncenisio”
  • Hungarian: “Mont Cenis-hágó”
  • Interlingua: “Moncenisio”
  • Italian: “Colle del Moncenisio”
  • Italian: “Moncenisio”
  • Italian: “passo del Moncenisio”
  • Japanese: “モン・スニ峠”
  • Japanese: “モン・スニ街道”
  • Latin: “Mons Cenisius”
  • Luxembourgish: “Col vum Mont Cenis”
  • Polish: “Mont-Cenis”
  • Portuguese: “Passo do Monte Cenis”
  • Romanian: “Pasul Mont Cenis”
  • Russian: “Мон-Сени”
  • Russian: “Монсени”
  • Slovak: “Montceniský priesmyk”
  • Slovenian: “Mont Cenis”
  • Spanish: “Paso del Mont Cenis”
  • Ukrainian: “Мон-Сені”

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