Simplon Pass
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In neighbouring Switzerland, the Simplon Pass into Italy and the Great St Bernard Tunnel were closed to traffic, while two cantons were badly affected.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
Sinuous, up in the sky between one mountainside and another, the most beautiful bridge I had ever seen was in Simplon Pass, on the Swiss side.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the highway skirts the lake-front and leads straight away toward Geneva, or up the Rhone Valley past Martigny toward the Simplon Pass.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The greatest tunnel in Europe is the Simplon which connects Switzerland with Italy under the Simplon Pass in the Alps.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul
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