Tour des Combins — Stage 2: Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses → Bourg-Saint-Pierre

From Saint-Rhémy climb along the ancient Roman road of the Gauls to the Great St Bernard pass (2,473 m), with its thousand-year-old hospice and famous dogs. Then descend into Switzerland’s Val d’Entremont, through the Combe des Morts and pastures, to Bourg-Saint-Pierre (1,632 m).

You walk through history: the climb to the Great St Bernard follows the Roman road of the Gauls — cart ruts are still visible in the rock just below the pass — marched by Napoleon with forty thousand men in May 1800. At the hospice, founded by St Bernard in 1050 and continuously inhabited for nearly a thousand years, you can visit the baroque church, the museum and the kennels of the famous St Bernard dogs. The Swiss descent crosses the Combe des Morts and follows the torrent to Bourg-Saint-Pierre, whose Romanesque bell tower carries a thousand years of history.