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3 unusual facts about Jura mountains


Col de la Faucille

Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura.

Jura Mountains

Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."

Pierre Edmond Boissier

His hikes in the Jura and the Alps laid the foundation of his zest for later exploration and adventure.


Balm ruins

The Balm ruins (German: Ruine Balm or Ruine Balmfluh) are the remains of a fortified cave dwelling at the foot of Balmfluh (alternative spelling: Balmflue) in the Jura Mountains, in the municipality of Balm bei Günsberg in the Canton of Solothurn.

Botanischer Garten der Stadt Hof

The garden is divided into two major areas: a geometrical Rosarium, and a landscaped garden with alpine garden, Jura Mountains collection, lily pond, shade area, medicinal herb garden, heathers, succulents, and expansive perennials plantings.

Fold mountain

The Jura mountains - A series of sub-parallel mountainous ridges formed by folding over a Triassic evaporite decollement due to thrust movements in the foreland of the Alps.

Fort l'Écluse

It commands the Rhone valley and is a natural entrance into France from Switzerland between the Vuache hills and the Jura Mountains.

Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof

The floor of the lobby is made of Jurassic limestone tiles, and the walls are covered with Jurassic and Travertine panels.

Jean Claude Jacob

Jean Claude Jacob was a serf from the Jura Mountains, supposedly 120 years old, who was brought from his native place to figure as "dean of the human race" in Paris at the Festival of the Federation of June 1790.

Lynx

Fourteen projects of reintroduction have been set in Europe between 1970 and 2006 which gave the best results in Slovenia, the Swiss Alps, Jura, Croatia, Germany, and Italy.

Mönthal

The municipality is located in the Brugg district, in a Jura valley between Brugg and Laufenburg.

Musée Baud

The Musée Baud is a music-box museum in the Swiss village of L'Auberson in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud.

Othon Friesz

He resumed living in Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death in 1949.

Sculpture at Schoenthal

A number of well-known Swiss and international artists have integrated works of sculpture into the surrounding Jura countryside, including Tony Cragg, Nigel Hall, Richard Long and David Nash.

Tête de Moine

Tête de Moine is currently produced by fewer than 10 cheese dairies of the Jura Mountains area of Porrentruy, District of Franches-Montagnes, both situated in the Canton of Jura, as well as in Moutier and Courtelary, in the Bernese Jura.

Tourism TriRhena

The natural highlights have their presence with the astonishing landscapes of the Black Forest, Alsace, and the region of Jura in Baselland.


see also

Giroud

Fort de Pré-Giroud, twentieth-century Swiss fortification located in the Jura Mountains

Mittelgebirge

Though located within the Alpine foothills, the Jura Mountains are usually considered a separate Mittelgebirge range, while the Kras Plateau, leading to the Dinarides, geologically forms a part of the Southern Alps.

Rauracia

the Rauracian Republic, a short-lived (1792–1793) state that included parts of modern France and Switzerland around the Jura mountains