Vrsic Pass
Vrsic Pass is a mountain pass road in Slovenia.
- Type: Mountain Pass
- Country: Slovenia
- Length: 1,611 m summit
- Opened: 1915
Overview
The 50 hairpin road over the Vrsic in the Julian Alps, built in 1915 with Russian prisoner of war labor for the Isonzo front. An avalanche buried hundreds of prisoners in March 1916, remembered by a small Russian chapel on the climb.
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