La Brèche de Roland - Pyrenees Mts. (France)
N 42° 41.461 W 000° 02.019
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La Brèche de Roland is a natural gap, 40 m wide and 100 m high at an elevation of 2804 m, located in the Pyrenees Mts. on the border of Aragón, northern Spain and Hautes-Pyrénées, France.
Waymark Code: WMMA4A
Location: Occitanie, France
Date Posted: 08/20/2014
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La Brèche de Roland is a natural gap, 40 m wide and 100 m high at an elevation of 2804 m, located in the Pyrenees Mts. on the border of Aragón, northern Spain and Hautes-Pyrénées, France. In Spanish the gap is known as Brecha de Rolando and in Aragonese as Breca de Roldán.
The gap is situated in the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park on the Franco-Spanish border, close to the steep cliffs of the Cirque de Gavarnie. According to legend the Brèche de Roland was cut by Count Roland with his sword Durendal in an attempt to destroy that sword, after being defeated during the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778. The gap can be reached from the Refugio Sarradets, a nearby mountain shelter, in about an hour's climb. [wiki]