The GR 58, also: Tour du Queyras, is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. It forms a 108 km long loop in the Queyras, one of France's regional parks, in the department of the Hautes-Alpes. It passes through Ceillac, Saint-Véran, Abriès, Les Fonds and Brunissard. [1]
A massif is simply a principal mountain mass, for example, a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits. In mountaineering literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain.
Col Agnel is a mountain pass in the Cottian Alps, west of Monte Viso between France and Italy which links the Queyras valley (Hautes-Alpes) with Pontechianale in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont.
The Queyras is a valley located in the French Hautes-Alpes, of which the geographical extent is the basin of the river Guil, a tributary of the Durance. The Queyras is one of the oldest mountain ranges of the Alps, and it was one of the last ones to be opened to public tourism towards the end of the 20th century, thus being relatively untouched by environmental destruction.
The arrondissement of Briançon is an arrondissement of France in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 36 communes. Its population is 35,266 (2016), and its area is 2,138.1 km2 (825.5 sq mi).
The Ubaye Valley is an area in the Alpes de Haute-Provence département, in the French Alps, having approximately 7,700 residents. Its residents are called Ubayens. Its principal town is the sous-préfecture of Barcelonnette.
The GR 65 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network that extends from the French Prealps, across south central France, through the Pyrenees.
Col d'Izoard is a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Hautes-Alpes in France.
Abriès is a former commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Abriès-Ristolas.
Toques is a municipality in the Spanish province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It has a population of 1580 and an area of 78 km².
Château-Ville-Vieille is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.
Arvieux is a commune of the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of south-eastern France.
Molines-en-Queyras is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.
The canton of Aiguilles is a former administrative division in southeastern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 7 communes, which joined the canton of Guillestre in 2015. It had 2,145 inhabitants (2012).
The canton of Guillestre is an administrative division in the southeastern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 9 to 15 communes (two of which were merged into the new commune Abriès-Ristolas:
The GR 72 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Barre-des-Cévennes with Col du Bez.
The GR 44 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Champerboux with Les Vans.
The GR 42 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Beaucaire with Saint-Étienne.
The GR 9 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Saint-Amour, Jura with Port Grimaud.
The GR 70, also known as the Chemin de Stevenson or the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail, is a Grande Randonnée that runs for approximately 225 kilometres (140 mi) through the French departments of Haute-Loire, Lozère and Gard in a generally north–south direction from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille to Saint-Jean-du-Gard. It follows approximately the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878, a journey described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
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