Eagle made of stone as a monument to the Mountain Brigade 11 on the occasion of the border occupation during the Second World War (1939-1945) at the summit of the Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais

(ID 34861)

Simplon Pass with road signpost, left to Gondo and further to Domodossola (Italy), right to Brig (Switzerland); 10.06.2014

Valais Alps seen from the Simplon Pass road; 10.06.2014

Eagle made of stone as a monument to the Mountain Brigade 11 on the occasion of the border occupation during the Second World War (1939-1945) at the summit of the Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais / Wallis (Switzerland), pedestal inscription: "IN THE FREEDOM OF THE MOUNTAINS IT STANDS, A MASSIVE MONUMENT OF HARD GRANITE: A REMEMBRANCE OF FAITHFUL DUTY, A LASTING WARNING TO BE WILLING AND ALERT FOR OUR FREEDOM"; viewed from the pass road, 10.06.2014

Volkmar Döring 05.07.2016, 632 Views, 0 Comments * automatically translated

EXIF: Exposure time: 0.003 s (10/4000) (1/400), Aperture: f/8.0, ISO160, Focal length: 14.00 (140/10)

0 Comments, All comments

Zermatt, beautiful glacier landscape: lower part of the Grenzgletscher, viewed from the Gornergrat - 06.10.2010 
Olivier Monnet

Galleries / Weather phenomena / Ice, Switzerland / Canton of Valais / Miscellaneous

 500 1200x668 Px, 07.03.2018 

Zermatt, beautiful glacier landscape: lower part of the Grenzgletscher, viewed from the Gornergrat - 06.10.2010 
Olivier Monnet

Galleries / Weather phenomena / Ice, Switzerland / Canton of Valais / Miscellaneous

 498 1200x895 Px, 07.03.2018 

Simplon Hospice of the Augustinian Canons of the Great St. Bernard on the Simplon Pass, the building was originally ordered by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801 as a barracks; 10.06.2014 
Volkmar Döring

Switzerland / Canton of Valais / Miscellaneous, Switzerland / Alpine passes / Simplon Pass

 750 1200x675 Px, 05.07.2016 