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Famous roadAlps (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), France

Col d'Allos

Mountain pass — 2,250 m

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Days recorded
2Grand Tour days on this road
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0stages we hold the route for
Years covered
2000–2015first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A high, narrow southern-Alps pass above Barcelonnette, one of the Tour's original giants — François Faber was first over it in 1911, and it featured more than thirty times before the war. A classic link on the Route des Grandes Alpes toward the Vars and Izoard.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

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Every Grand Tour day recorded on this road, newest first. The ones we hold the route for open on the map with that stage selected; the rest are the archive’s own account, most of them from before route data existed.

  1. 2015

    Stage 17 · Digne-les-Bains → Pra Loup

    Won by Simon Geschke (GER)

    Geschke went clear over the Col d'Allos and held on to win at Pra Loup; behind, Nairo Quintana attacked Chris Froome on the climb as the GC battle ignited.

  2. 2000

    Stage 14 · Draguignan → Briançon

    Won by Santiago Botero (COL)

    On a 249 km haul over the Allos, Vars and Izoard, Pascal Hervé was first over the Allos; up ahead the Colombian Santiago Botero took the biggest win of his career in Briançon.

Elsewhere in the Alps

No Grand Tour day on record has taken this road and another of the atlas's famous climbs. These are its nearest neighbours.