Colle della Croce Col Lacroix | |
Elevation M: | 2299 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Traversed: | bridle path |
Map: | Alps |
Label: | Colle della Croce |
Coords: | 44.7722°N 7.0211°W |
Location: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Piemonte, Italy |
Range: | Cottian Alps |
The Colle della Croce (Italian) or Col Lacroix (French,[1] sometimes referred as Col de la Croix[2]) is a pedestrian pass (el. 2,299 m / 7,541 ft) of the Cottian Alps.
Both in Italian and in French the name means pass of the Cross.
The pass connects the villages of La Montà (commune of Ristolas, in France) and Villanova (comune of Bobbio Pellice, in Italy).
It forms the limit between the Central and the Southern Cottian Alps.[3]