Ballon d'Alsace, France - Monument des démineurs by Joseph Riviere - real photo

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• Picture / Image:  Ballon d'Alsace, France - Monument des démineurs ,(sculptor - Jospeh Riviere - architect Emile Descher)
• Publisher:  La Cigogne, Strasbourg
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Ballon d'Alsace German: Elsässer Belchen (el. 1247 m.) is a mountain at the border of Alsace, Lorraine, and Franche-Comté. From its top, views include the Vosges, the Rhine valley, the Black Forest, and the Alps.

A road leads over a pass near the peak at the Col du Ballon d'Alsace, 1,171 m (3,842 ft). The pass is noted as the site of the first official mountain climb in the Tour de France on 11 July 1905,^[1] the first rider to the top of the climb being René Pottier and the stage being won by Hippolyte Aucouturier. Stage 9 of the 2005 Tour crossed this pass on the centenary of the original climb.

Ballon d'Alsace features Alpine and Cross Country skiing tracks.

type=printed

city/ region=alsace

period=post-war (1945 - present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)