Queyras
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The Queyras Valley is located in the French Hautes-Alpes. Its geographical extension is the basin of river Guil, an affluent of river Durance.
The Queyras was supposedly traveled through by Attila when he was conquering various areas of the planet.
It is one of the oldest mountain ranges of the Alps, because it was one of the last ones to be opened to public tourism towards the end of the 20th century. Because of this, it was able to protect itself from massive tourism that has destroyed so many other beautiful areas of the world.
Famous mountains of this range include:
- La Taillante
- Le Grand Queyras (3114 m)
- Le Bric Bouchet
- Le Col Agnel - which is not a mountain, but a pass
- Le Pain de Sucre - literally "Bread of Sugar" because it has the shape of one, just like the one in Rio.
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