La Tourne
La Tourne is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It connects Les Ponts-de-Martel and Montmollin. The pass road has a maximum grade of 10 percent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rocher des Tablettes and Le Château, ruins of Rochefort castle - Middle Ages.
Rocher des Tablettes
Peak
The Rocher des Tablettes is a mountain of the Jura, located west of Rochefort in the canton of Neuchâtel. Its south side consists of steep limestone cliffs overlooking the valley of the Areuse.
Chambrelien railway station
Railway station
Chambrelien railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Rochefort, in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. It is a reversing station on the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brot-Plamboz and Brot-Dessous.
Brot-Dessous
Village
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brot-Dessous is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 it was absorbed into Rochefort.
Les Ponts-de-Martel
Village
Photo: Botteron, Public domain.
Les Ponts-de-Martel is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
La Tourne
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,169 metres
- Description: mountain pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Rochefort, Boudry District, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.98368° or 46° 59′ 1″ northLongitude
6.77975° or 6° 46′ 47″ eastElevation
1,169 metres (3,835 feet)Open location code
8FR8XQMH+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 12040718958OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“La Tourne” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “La Tourne”
- Dutch: “La Tourne”
- French: “col de la Tourne”
- French: “Col de la Tourne”
- German: “Hauptstrasse 170”
- German: “La Tourne”
- Italian: “La Tourne”
- Swedish: “Col de la Tourne”
- Swedish: “La Tourne”
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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 “La Tourne”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.