Col de Tende

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Col de Tende
Elevation	1,870 metres
Location	Alpes-Maritimes, France and Province of Cuneo, Italy <tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Maritime Alps, Ligurian Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">44°9′N 7°34′E</td></tr>

Col de Tende

1,870 metres

Location

Alpes-Maritimes, France and Province of Cuneo, Italy

<tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Maritime Alps, Ligurian Alps</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">44°9′N 7°34′E</td></tr>

The Col de Tende (Italian: Colle di Tenda) is a mountain pass in the Alps, on the border of France and Italy.

It separates the Maritime Alps from the Ligurian Alps. It connects Nice and Tende in Alpes-Maritimes with Cuneo in Piedmont. The altitude of the pass itself is 1,870 m. The road and the railroad from Tende to Cuneo pass through a tunnel.

Under Col de Tende a railway tunnel inaugaurated in 1898 and a road tunnel inaugaurated in 1882 run through. Latter tunnel is 3.2 kilometre long and belongs to the oldest longer road tunnels.