라 툴레 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

Arriving at the pass, you can see ruins dating back to the time when the two Savoy regions were under Italian rule. These ruins and ramparts served to repel French invasion.

In the square in front of the main entrance of the Villaret tunnel there are the technical rooms serving the mining activity. The first building to the left of the tunnel entrance housed the compressors that allowed the miners to use compressed air hammers and forced ventilation, as well as the rooms for converting electrical energy. In the low and long building to the right of the tunnel there were: • the lamp factory, for supplying the carbide lamps to be used in the tunnel and for their maintenance, • the forge for working the tools and especially the tips of the pneumatic hammers, • the carpentry shop for treating the wood to be used to support the tunnels. In the square other buildings were subsequently built, used as warehouses and garages as well as workshops for the maintenance of the locomotives. In more recent times one of them was transformed into a chapel serving the Father Kolbe holiday home. The yard was crossed by tracks for the transit of the trains that carried the waste material outside, which was then deposited on the slope towards the Dora. Tracks also arrived from the opposite side of the slope, from the Preylet tunnel. The wagons loaded with anthracite passed the small bridge over the Dora and the road, then entered the tunnel to reach, via the descent, the loading station in the tunnel of the train headed for Arpy. After 1959 the tracks carried the coal wagons to the washery located to the west where the anthracite treatment previously carried out in Morgex took place.

Starting point for many excursions, including the one to the Rutor Waterfalls. Large free parking.

View from above of Lake Arpy

This beautiful path surrounded by nature offers breathtaking scenery.

Very pretty hamlet from where the path to the waterfalls starts

As you go up along the route, I recommend stopping every now and then to observe the wonderful panorama that appears before us

The Colle della Croce is an Alpine pass located at a difference in altitude of 2,381 metres, from which you can admire a splendid panorama of the Thuile basin and the Mont Blanc group. Continuing a little further on the path you can reach Punta Croce.