There are a large number of tunnels in the

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of Central Europe. They have the advantage of providing shorter routes and faster journey times by avoiding narrow, winding routes over mountain passes which may well be affected by winter conditions. This list is intended to give an overview of the main Alpine tunnels. As the list is "country" oriented, cross-border tunnels are listed twice (e.g. the Mont Blanc tunnel is listed under France and under Italy.) See separate article for a list of the longest tunnels in the world.

Germany

* Füssen Border Tunnel

France

* Mont Cenis Tunnel ''(railway)'' and Fréjus road tunnel * Mont Blanc Tunnel ''(road tunnel)'' * Tenda Tunnels ''(

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and railway)'' *

Col de Tende Road Tunnel Col de Tende Road Tunnel is a 3182 metre long road tunnel running under Col de Tende between France and Italy. It was inaugurated in 1882 and it was until 1964 the longest road tunnel in the Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; ...

''(one of the oldest long road tunnels, 3.2 km)'' *

Buco di Viso The Monte Viso Tunnel (Italian: ''Buco di Viso''; French: ''Pertuis du Viso'') is an Alpine pedestrian tunnel excavated in the rock during the Renaissance and located eight kilometres north of Monviso (Cottian Alps), northern Italy. It is 75 ...

''(mule track, oldest tunnel in the Alps)'' *

Fréjus Road Tunnel The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a tunnel that connects France and Italy. It runs under Col du Fréjus in the Cottian Alps between Modane in France and Bardonecchia in Italy. It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes between France and Ital ...

and the much older Fréjus Railway Tunnel

Italy

* Mont Cenis Tunnel ''(railway)'' and Fréjus road tunnel *

Great St Bernard Tunnel The Great St Bernard Tunnel (french: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, it, Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, german: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Va ...

(''Gran San Bernardo / Grosser Sankt Bernhard, road tunnel'') * Mont Blanc Tunnel ''(road tunnel through the highest mountain in the Alps)'' *

Simplon Tunnel , it, Galleria del Sempione , line = Simplon line, (Lötschberg railway line) , location = Traversing the Lepontine Alps between Switzerland and Italy , coordinates = – , system = Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FF ...

''(railway tunnel)'' * Tenda Tunnels ''(road and railway)'' *

''(one of the oldest long road tunnels, 3.2 km)'' *

''(mule track, oldest tunnel in the Alps)'' *

and the much older Fréjus Railway Tunnel

Austria

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* Achrain Tunnel (3,340 m) * Amberg Tunnel (2,978 m) *

Arlberg Road Tunnel The Arlberg Road Tunnel (german: Arlberg Straßentunnel), with a length of , is Austria's longest road tunnel. When it was inaugurated, it was the longest road tunnel in the world. It carries the S16 Arlberg Schnellstraße (German for "Arlberg Hi ...

(13,972 m) * Arlberg Tunnel (10,249 m, railway tunnel) *

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(5,700 m, in planning) * Langen Tunnel (2,433 m) * Letze Tunnel (2,612 m, in planning) * Pfänder Tunnel (6,718 m)

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(13,972 m) * Arlberg Railway Tunnel (10,249 m, railway tunnel) *

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(2,130 m) * Felbertauern Tunnel (5,304 m) *

Inntal Tunnel The Innsbruck bypass (German: ''Umfahrung Innsbruck'' or sometimes ''Güterzugumfahrung Innsbruck'', that is ''the Innsbruck freight railway bypass'') is a -long double-track electrified main line of the Austrian railways. It connects the Lower I ...

(12,696 m, railway tunnel only for goods traffic) * Harpfnerwand Tunnel (2,590 m) *

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(6,955 m) * Lermoos Tunnel (3,168 m) * Perjen Tunnel (2,993 m) * Pianner/Quadratscher Tunnel * Roppener Tunnel (5,095 m) * Strenger Tunnel (5,851 m) * Tschirgant Tunnel (4,310 m, under construction)

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* Felbertauern Tunnel (5,304 m) * Ofenauer Tunnel (1,390 m) * Hiefler Tunnel (2,004 m) * Katschberg Tunnel (5,439 m) *

Schmitten Tunnel The Schmitten Tunnel (german: Schmittentunnel) is the bypass tunnel for the town of Zell am See in Austria and a road tunnel on the Pinzgau Road (''Pinzgauer Straße'', B 311) in the Austrian state of Salzburg. The Schmitten Tunnel has ...

(5,111 m) * Schönberg Tunnel (2,988 m) *

Tauern Road Tunnel The Tauern Road Tunnel is located on the Tauern Autobahn (A10) in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg. The use is subject to a toll. With a length of (4.07 miles), the tunnel ranks as one of the longest frequently-travelled road tunnels in Au ...

(6,401 m) * Tauern Railway Tunnel (8,550 m)

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* Ehrentalerberg (3,345 m) * Gräbern Tunnel (2,148 m) *

Karawanken Tunnel (railway) The Karawanks Tunnel (german: Karawankentunnel, sl, Predor Karavanke) is the fourth longest railway tunnel in Austria and the longest in Slovenia with a length of (4.96 miles). It passes under Rožca Saddle between Rosenbach in southern Aust ...

(7,976 m) * Karawanken Tunnel (motorway) (7,864 m) *

Koralm Tunnel The Koralm Tunnel is a railway tunnel that is under construction in Austria under the Koralpe mountain range. It forms one section of the -long Koralm Railway which will link Graz with Klagenfurt. Once complete, the Koralm Tunnel shall be Austri ...

(32,900 m, railway tunnel under construction) * Katschberg Tunnel (5,439 m) * Oswaldiberg Tunnel (4,307 m)

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* Bartl Kreuz Tunnel (2,000 m) * Bosruck Tunnel (5,500 m) * Geißwand Tunnel (2,102 m, under construction) * Klaus Tunnel (2,144 m) * Lainberg Tunnel (2,278 m) * Pfaffenboden Tunnel (3,430 m) * Spering Tunnel (2,852 m) * Unterweitersdorfer Berg Tunnel (4,500 m, in planning)

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

* Semmering Scheitel Tunnel (3,489 m) * Wienerwald Tunnel (13,350 m)

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

* Bosruck Tunnel (5,500 m) *

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(3,000 m, in planning) * Ganzstein Semmering Tunnel (3,489 m) * Ganzstein Tunnel (2,135 m) *

Gleinalm Tunnel The Gleinalm Tunnel (German: Gleinalmtunnel) is a highway tunnel in Styria, Austria. It lies along the Pyhrn Autobahn and it is 8320 m long. It connects the district of Leoben with the district Graz-Umgebung. It was opened on 1978. The tunnel w ...

(8,320 m) * Gratkorn Tunnel Nord and Süd (635m / 660m, 798m / 786m) * Herzogberg Tunnel (2,007 m) *

(32,900 m, railway tunnel under construction) * Plabutsch Tunnel (9,919 m) * Pretallerkogel Tunnel (446m / 535m) * Schartnerkogel Tunnel (1,167m / 1,232m) *

Selzthal Tunnel Selzthal is a municipality in the district of Liezen in the Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of ...

(1,010m / 964m) * Spital Tunnel (2,597 m) * Tanzenberg Tunnel (2,523 m) *

Bruck Tunnel Bruck may refer to any of the following: Name Ethiopian Bruck is a common name for a male meaning blessed: Places Bruck (Bavarian for "bridge") is a common name for towns: Austria * Bruck am Ziller, in the district of Schwaz in Tyrol * Br ...

(1237m/1250m) * Rottenmann Tunnel (400m) *

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(2,924 m)

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Lainzer Tunnel The Lainz Tunnel (german: Lainzer Tunnel) is a 12.8-kilometre-long, double-track railway tunnel in Vienna. It forms one part of a wider tunnel network that includes the neighbouring Wienerwald Tunnel, it connects Austria's Western, Southern, Easte ...

(12,800 m, railway tunnel under construction) * Wienerwald Tunnel (13,350 m)

Switzerland

Longest tunnels

* * Gotthard Base Tunnel ''(railway tunnel, open on 1 June 2016, 57 km)'' * Lötschberg Base Tunnel ''(railway tunnel, 34.6 km)'' *

''(railway tunnel, 19.8 km)'' *

Vereina Tunnel The Vereina Tunnel is a railway tunnel, and the principal part of the Vereina railway line, in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It connects the Landquart–Davos Platz and the Bever–Scuol-Tarasp lines. First proposed during ...

''(narrow gauge railway tunnel with car transportation, 19 km)'' * Gotthard Road Tunnel ''(road tunnel, 16.9 km)'' *

Ceneri Base Tunnel The Ceneri Base Tunnel (CBT, it, Galleria di base del Monte Ceneri) is a Swiss railway base tunnel in the canton of Ticino. It passes under Monte Ceneri between Camorino in the Magadino Flat and Vezia near Lugano; it bypasses the former high-a ...

''(railway tunnel, 15.4 km)'' *

Furka Base Tunnel The Furka Base Tunnel is a Swiss railway base tunnel on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn's Furka–Oberalp line, an east-west railway connecting the cantons of Valais and Uri. Its west portal lies east of Oberwald (VS), at above sea level and its ...

''(narrow gauge railway tunnel with car transportation, 15.4 km)'' *

Gotthard Railway Tunnel , it, Galleria del San Gottardo , other_name = , line = Gotthard Line , location = Traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif in the middle of the Swiss Alps , coordinates = , os_grid_ref = , status = , system ...

''(railway tunnel, 15.0 km)'' * Lötschberg Tunnel ''(railway tunnel, 14.6 km)'' * Zimmerberg Base Tunnel ''(railway tunnel, 9.4 km)'' * Seelisberg Tunnel ''(road tunnel, 9.2 km)'' *

Ricken Tunnel The Ricken Tunnel (german: Rickentunnel) is an long rail tunnel under the Ricken Pass in eastern Switzerland. It is on the Swiss Federal Railway Uznach–Wattwil line, between Kaltbrunn station and Wattwil station. The tunnel, which accommoda ...

''(railway tunnel, 8.6 km)''

Other well-known tunnels

* San Bernardino Tunnel ''(road tunnel, 6.6 km)'' *

''(road tunnel, 5.9 km)'' *

Albula Tunnel The Albula Tunnel is the centrepiece of the Albula Railway, which forms part of the Rhaetian Railway network, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. With its maximum elevation of above sea level, it is amongst the highest tunnels in the Alps ...

''(narrow gauge railway tunnel, 5.9 km)'' * Furka Summit Tunnel ''(narrow gauge railway tunnel, heritage railway, 1.9 km)'' *

Munt la Schera Tunnel The Munt la Schera Tunnel is a single lane road tunnel located in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It connects the Engadin valley with Lago di Livigno, through Munt la Schera. Completed in 1965, the tunnel is in length. The tunnel was built to t ...

''(road tunnel)''

Slovenia

* Karawanken Tunnel (motorway) *

Sources

* Uwe A. Oster (ed.), ''Wege über die Alpen. Von der Frühzeit bis heute'', Darmstadt, 2006, {{ISBN, 3-89678-269-X.
www.AlpenTunnel.de Historic railway crossings through the Alps

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