Somport
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Somport or Col du Somport, known also as the Aspe Pass or Canfranc Pass, is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain. Its name is derived from the Latin Summus portus.
Pass as seen from Spain
Pau–Canfranc railway
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The Pau–Canfranc railway is a partially-closed 93 km long international single-track standard gauge railway line connecting Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region of France, climbing via the Gave d'As
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…Ermita del Pilar (1992) and of course the natural beauty of the mountains. From this point to Santiago de Compostela it is approximately 840 km. The Pau–Canfranc railway linking Canfranc, Spain with Pau, France opened to traffic in 1928, connected via the Somport Railway Tunnel which was completed in 1915, and terminating…
Canfranc station: changing the former French track field into a park, August 2022
The northern French-side entrance to the Somport railway tunnel, 2010
The southern Spanish-side entrance to the Somport railway tunnel, 2006
The Pau-Oloron-Sainte-Marie section during renovation, 2010