Col de Braus
Col de Braus is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in France. It connects Sospel and L'Escarène. A railway tunnel has been dug under the pass.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lorenzo.cerisola, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cime de Gros Braus and Ouvrage Barbonnet.
Ouvrage Barbonnet
Fort
Ouvrage Barbonnet is a work of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and one infantry block facing Italy.
Touët-de-L’Escarène railway halt
Railway station
Touët-de-L’Escarène railway halt is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Touët-de-l’Escarène and Sospel.
Touët-de-l’Escarène
Village
Touët-de-l'Escarène is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Sospel
Photo: Jpmgir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sospel is a commune and former schismatic episcopal seat in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France near the Italian border and not far from Monte Carlo.
L’Escarène
Village
Photo: Jpchevreau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
L'Escarène is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France. It was part of the historic County of Nice until 1860, named Scarena.
Col de Braus
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,003 metres
- Description: mountain pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Lucéram, Arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.87263° or 43° 52′ 22″ northLongitude
7.39893° or 7° 23′ 56″ eastElevation
1,003 metres (3,291 feet)Open location code
8FM9V9FX+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3608751474OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Italian—“Col de Braus” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “coll de Braus”
- Catalan: “Coll de Braus”
- Cebuano: “Col de Braus”
- Dutch: “Col de Braus”
- French: “col de Braus”
- French: “Col de Braus”
- German: “Col de Braus”
- Italian: “Col de Braus”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pas de L’agrée and Cime du Petit Braus.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Col de Braus”. Photo: Lorenzo.cerisola, Public domain.