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Aosta – Great St Bernard Pass

Aosta – Great St Bernard Pass

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Aosta – Great St Bernard Pass

03:48

37.2km

2,050m

Road cycling

This climb connects Aosta to the Great St Bernard Pass, one of the most important historic passes in the Alps: one of the region's great classic road cycling climbs.

You start from the Aosta valley floor and climb progressively, passing through the first inhabited centers, including Gignod and Étroubles, a medieval village known for its open-air museum. The gradient is regular, allowing you to find your own rhythm as the landscape gradually changes: vineyards and meadows give way to an increasingly alpine environment.

After passing Saint-Oyen and reaching Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses, the last village before the border, the climb enters its final stretch towards the pass. Here the road becomes more open and the high mountains take center stage, with wide panoramas and a more isolated and silent setting.

The Great St Bernard Pass, at 2,473 meters, has been a crossing point between Italy and Switzerland for centuries: crossed by Romans, pilgrims of the Via Francigena, and Napoleon, it still hosts the historic hospice known for breeding St Bernard dogs.

by Valle d’Aosta

Last updated: May 20, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 476 m for 134 m

Waypoints

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Train Station

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543 m

Piazza Émile Chanoux

Highlight • Historical Site

The beautiful central square of Aosta during the Sant'Orso fair transforms into a real market. One of the symbolic squares of the city of Aosta, amazing both from an aesthetic and historical point of view.

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7.03 km

Gignod

Highlight • Rest Area

Like all municipalities of the Great Saint Bernard Valley, the history of the Gignod area is strongly influenced by the Via Francigena. It was a transit route between the north and south of Europe and was traveled by pilgrims traveling to Rome and the Holy Land in the Middle Ages.

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20.9 km

Saint-Oyen

Highlight • Settlement

A picturesque little village in the Grand Saint-Bernard valley, offering several trails.

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24.8 km

Saint-Rhémy

Highlight • Settlement

To say that Saint Rhémy is enchanting is an understatement: stone houses, well-stacked woodsheds, the murmur of the river; hard to leave here!

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36.7 km

Lac de Grand Saint Bernard

Highlight • Lake

The mountain lake of Gran San Bernardo is located at 2,447 meters above sea level, right in the heart of the Alps, which here draw the natural and political border between Italy and Switzerland.

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37.2 km

Col du Grand Saint-Bernard

Highlight • Mountain Pass

This climb is something incredible: it doesn't have difficult gradients but it's long, very long, endless. You reach a point where you almost hate it: you've been cycling for well over an hour and still can't see the summit, you're running out of energy and the wind keeps whipping your face, you'd like to throw your bike away and say "Enough! I'm stopping here"... but it's only for a moment, because you're the one who chose to face it and you knew perfectly well what you were getting into; you set off again with more grit than before and tackle those last few km of road with all your remaining strength.
And then you enter the tunnel, there you start to realize you've made it, you come out, follow the road that turns slightly to the left and, as if in a dream, the lake appears.
You reach the top and think about how many people throughout the centuries have traveled this road: Salassi, Romans, monks, migrants, Napoleonic soldiers... you realize you are in a place where History is dense and nature is stunning, and there you can only love this hill

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26.9 km

6.66 km

2.94 km

569 m

148 m

Surfaces

26.0 km

10.5 km

750 m

< 100 m

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April 9, 2026

This climb connects Aosta to the Great St Bernard Pass, one of the most important historic passes in the Alps: one of the region's great classic road cycling climbs.
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You start from the Aosta valley floor and climb progressively, passing through the first inhabited centers, including Gignod and Étroubles

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Aosta – Great St Bernard Pass

Piazza Émile Chanoux

Gignod

Saint-Oyen

Saint-Rhémy

Lac de Grand Saint Bernard

Col du Grand Saint-Bernard

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