European route E62
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The European route E62 is a road in Europe and a part of the United Nations International E-road network. Approximately 1290 kilometers (802 miles) long, it connects the French Atlantic port city of Nantes to Genoa, largest of Italy's port cities. Between France and Italy it also passes through Switzerland, via Geneva and Lausanne. After crossing into Italy, the E62 passes Milan, Italy's largest commercial and industrial centre, before descending to Genoa on the Mediterranean coast.
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[edit] France
Nantes is France's sixth largest city by population, but the rest of the E62's route across France from west to east serves middling or smaller towns and cities, two of the best known of them to English speakers being, for historical reasons, Poitiers and for reasons involving viticulture, Mâcon. Reflecting the relatively low population densities across much of the French heartland, most of the western section of the E62 follows toll free Routes Nationales rather than autoroutes.
[edit] Switzerland
The route enters Switzerland near Geneva and follows the northern and eastern shores of the Lake of Geneva before tracking the course of the Rhône upstream towards the Italian frontier. In order to use the autoroutes in Switzerland it is necessary to buy a 'vignette' windscreen sticker, renewable each December or January: this represents twelve months of unlimited access to most of the Swiss autoroutes without additional tolls being levied.
[edit] Italy
Italy is entered via the Simplon Pass which is one of the gentler of Alpine passes, although both the approaches and the pass itself follow single carriageway roads and are not suitable for fast driving. Soon after entering Italy, the road reverts to Autostrada quality, permitting rapid progress at most times of day, though in Italy tolls, variable according to vehicle type and distance traveled, are payable by autostrada users, generally at the point of exit from the road, using a ticket issued at the point of entry to compute the distance covered since the autostrada network was entered or the last toll was levied.
[edit] The route
[edit] Sources and further reading
- This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding Italian Wikipedia article as of 2008-05-15.
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