Cuneo Col de Tende pass

Any visitor to Cuneo will soon become aware that in order truly to make the most of this beautiful town’s surroundings, one must hire a car and take to the hills.  From Cuneo, the most rewarding route, for its spectacular scenery and amazing vantage points high in the Alps, is the Col de Tende pass, which connects Cuneo with Nice.  At the wheel of your hire car, this route will see you negotiate a quite thrilling route through a series of tunnels and cuttings across the Maritime Alps and into France.

The road itself was inaugurated in 1882, and incorporates one of the oldest road tunnels of note in Europe.  It roughly follows a route thought to have first been developed by the Phoenicians and later maintained by the Greeks and then the Romans.  Whatever the road’s provenance, there can be no doubt that it makes the hiring of four wheels an absolute must during any trip to the town of Cuneo or the region in general.