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.

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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

Photo: Micmac, CC BY 1.0.

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.

Le Château, ruins of Rochefort castle - Middle Ages

Castle

Photo: Finsteraarhorn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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-Plamboz

Hamlet

Brot-Plamboz is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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″ north

Longitude

6.77975° or 6° 46′ 47″ east

Elevation

1,169 metres (3,835 feet)

Open location code

8FR8XQMH+FW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12040718958

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=saddle

GeoNames ID

7626437

Wikidata ID

Q679606

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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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Notable Places Nearby

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