Maritime Alps

Maritime Alps i.e.S. and foothills of Nice, after SOIUSA

Maritime Alps ( Corno Stella at Monte Argentera )

The Maritime Alps or Alpes Maritimes (French Alpes Maritimes, Italian Maritime Alps ) are a mountain range in the southern Western Alps.

2.1 Fauna

3.1 Fern-/Weitwanderwege
3.2 Winter Sports
3.3 Picture Gallery

Geography

Share of the Maritime Alps have France with the departments of Alpes- Maritimes and Alpes- de -Haute -Provence and Italy with the Piedmont region and the Principality of Monaco. To the north close to the Cozie Alps and west of the Provencal Alps. In the east they are separated by the Colle di Tenda from the Ligurian Alps. To the south, the foothills of the mountains extend to the coast of the Mediterranean. The highest peak is the 3297 meter high Mount Argentera. With the Mont Clapier, the Maritime Alps to the southernmost three peaks of the Alps.

Boundary and classification

The core area of the Maritime Alps, the, Sea Alps in the proper sense ', in the Alpes-Maritimes department ( Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur), can also be found under the Italian name Alpi del Var, after the river that they are German and central Maritime Alps, or French Maritime Alps / Alpes Maritimes called. Traditionally, according to the classical French-Italian division ( Partizione delle Alpi ), count the Ligurian Alps ( Alpi liguri / Alpes ligure, German and Italian Alps, Ligurian Sea Alps) as a subgroup of the Maritime Alps. After the modern SOIUSA these are independently counted, SZ 1 Maritime Alps isa ), and as SZ 2 Maritime Alps Prealpi e di Nizza. In addition, the Préalpes de Nice, Préalpes niçoises / Prealpi di Nizza (, foothills of Nice ') are partly co-treated, partly independently mentioned - otherwise you will find it treated as well, even under the Provencal Alps.

The boundary follows ( counter-clockwise starting from the northeast ):

Stura di Demonte in the north of - Colle della Maddalena - Ubayette - Ubaye to Barcelonette to the Cozie Alps
The west and southwest of Bachelard ( for Ubaye ) - Col d' Allos - Verdon to the Trois Évêchés ( Provence Alps) more broadly along the Verdon including Préalpes de Grasse (part of Préalpes de Castellane )
In the strict sense of the Verdon about La Colle- Saint- Michel - VAIRE - Coulomp - Var to the Mediterranean, to the Préalpes de Castellane / Préalpes de Grasse in the South West

Quiliano - Torrent di Quiliano - Colle di Cadibona - Tanaro at Modovi the Apennines in the broader sense as an exclusion of the Apennines
Ventimiglia - Roya - Col de Tende - Vermenagna - Borgo San Dalmazzo in the strict sense of the Ligurian Alps

The breakdown follows:

After Partizione delle Alpi:

After SOIUSA:

STS 2.1 Maritime Alps i.s.a. A. Catena composure Grand Capelet
B. Catena Argentera Pépoiri - Matto
C. Catena Corborant - Ténibre - Enciastraia
D. Catena Côte de l' Ane - Mounier
E. Catena Pelat - Frema Grand Coyer

A. Catena Rocaillon Grand Braus

Summit

Notable Hills ( Maritime Alps in the true sense ) are:

Monte Argentera 3297 m
Cime du Gélas 3143 m
Cime di Nasta 3108 m
Monte Matto 3087 m
Cime de la Maledie / Cima Maledia 3061 m
Mont Pelat 3053 m
Corno Stella 3050 m
Mont Clapier 3045 m
Tête de Siguret 3032 m
Mont Ténibre 3032 m
Le Cimet 3020 m
Cime du Corborant 3007 m
Tête de l' Enchastraye 2955 m
Mont Bégo 2873 m
Mont Mounier 2817 m
Rocca dell'Abisso 2755 m

Reserves

Large parts of the French Maritime Alps are part of the 1979 created the Parc National du Mercantour, the youngest of six French national parks ( in motherland ). Located between 500 and 3143 m height ( Cime du Gélas, highest peak ) extends the inner, highly protected and uninhabited area of the Mercantour with 68,500 ha from the Col d' Allos in the west almost to the Col de Tende in the east. The area of the national park encompasses a large part of the Vallée de L' Ubaye, Vallée de la Tinée, Vallée du Var, Vallée du Cian, Vallée de la Vallée de la Roya and Vésubie. In the National Park known for the engravings from the Bronze Age Vallée des Merveilles lie in the Mont- Bégo region and with the Lac d' Allos the largest natural lake in the Alps at this altitude ( 2,230 m ).

Since 1995 the Parco Naturale delle Maritime Alps ( Maritime Alps Natural Park ) as a merger of the Natural Park Argentera and the protected area of Palanfré. With an area of 280 square kilometers, the Natural Park proportion of the Gesso, Stura di Demonte and Vermenagna.

Fauna and Flora

Fauna

The Alpine ibex was reintroduced successfully in 1921, the bearded vulture successfully released in 1993, also the golden eagle is still at home.

Tourism

Fern-/Weitwanderwege

The Via Alpina, a new cross-border long-distance hiking trails of the entire Alpine arc of Trieste runs through five to Monaco; it runs on two different routes by the Maritime Alps.

The Red Trail Via Alpina runs with 12 stages from the Cozie Alps coming first north of the Alps by the Italian Maritime Alps on the part of the historic pack-animal trails and paths that - created in different eras - have military origin, then passes over the Pas de Fenestre the border with France and runs in the Parc National du Mercantour on to the Col de Tende by the French Maritime Alps:

Section R137 of Pontebernardo to Rifugio Zanotti
Stage R138 from Rifugio Zanotti after Strepeis
Section R139 of Strepeis to Sant'Anna di Vinadio
Section R140 of Sant'Anna di Vinadio to Rifugio Malinvern
Stage R141 from Rifugio Malinvern to Rifugio Questa
Stage R142 from Rifugio Questa to Rifugio Morelli - Buzzi
Stage R143 from Rifugio Morelli - Buzzi to Rifugio Soria - Ellena
Stage R144 from Rifugio Soria - Ellena over the Pas de Fenstre to France to Refuge de la Madone de Fenestre
Section R145 of the Refuge de la Madone de Fenestre on through the inner, more protected area of the National Park to the Refuge de Nice
Section R146 of the Refuge de Nice at the Refuge de Valmasque and thus runs only slightly north of the famous for its more than 50,000 icons from the Bronze Age Vallée des Merveilles
Section R147 of the Refuge de Valmasque after Castérino
Section R148 of Castérino over the Col de Tende to Limonetto.

The Blue Trail Via Alpina runs south of the Alps for 9 stages by the French part of the Maritime Alps:

Section D53 of Larche after Bousiéyas,
Stage of Bousiéyas D54 to St -Etienne -de- Tinée
Section D55 of St- Etienne -de- Tinée by Roya
Section D56 of Roya close to the Mont Mounier over to the Refuge de Longon
Stage D57 from the Refuge de Longon to St Sauveur- sur- Tinée
Section D58 of St Sauveur- sur- Tinée to St -Martin- Vésubie
Section D59 of St- Martin- Vésubie after Belvédère
Section D60 of the Col de Turini Belvédère
Stage D61 from the Col de Turini to Sospel

Other long-distance trails in the Maritime Alps:

In France: GR 5 GR 52 and GR 52A
In Italy: Grande Traversata delle Alpi

Winter sports

Well-known ski resorts in the Alps are Isola 2000, Auron, Beuil, Valberg, Peira - Cava and Camp d' Argent at the Col de Turini on the French side, Limone Piemonte on the Italian side. The Maritime Alps are also suitable for skiing. Part of the Summit is to climb even in winter, and a crossing of the group is possible. The refuges are closed but have at least partially open winter rooms.

Photo Gallery

The Lac d' Allos photographed from the summit of Mont Pelat

Mont Bégo

Cime and Col de la Bonette

The Mont Clapier

Tête de l' Enchastraye

Cime de La Malédie

Daluis Gorge in high Var valley

Col de la Cayolle between Var valley and Bachelard Valley

Col de Tende between Roya Valley and Val Vermenagna

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Cottian Alps Monte Clapier Three-thousander Maddalena Pass Barcelonnette Verdon (river) Var (river) Apennine Mountains Roya (river) La Turbie Wintersport Auron (ski resort)

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