Col de Tende
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The Col de Tende (Italian: Colle di Tenda) is a mountain pass in the Alps, on the border of France and Italy, at .
It separates the Maritime Alps from the Ligurian Alps. It connects Nice and Tende in Alpes-Maritimes with Cuneo in Piedmont. The altitude of the pass itself is 1,870 m. The road and the railroad from Tende to Cuneo pass through a tunnel.
Under Col de Tende a railway tunnel inaugaurated in 1898 and a road tunnel inaugaurated in 1882 run through. Latter tunnel is 3.2 kilometre long and belongs to the oldest longer road tunnels.
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