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Les Grands Goulets (French language: The Great Bottlenecks) is a gorge in the western part of the Vercors Massif, located in the department of Drôme in Southeastern France. The gorge forms the head of the Vernaison Valley. Between 1844 and 1851, the Grands-Goulets Road (Route Départementale RD 518) was constructed, a "balcony road" built into the sheer limestone cliffs of the gorge to link the Pont-en-Royans area to the Vercors plateau at Échevis. The single-track road has numerous tunnels and few passing-places and was formerly popular with tourists.

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  • Les Grands Goulets (French language: The Great Bottlenecks) is a gorge in the western part of the Vercors Massif, located in the department of Drôme in Southeastern France. The gorge forms the head of the Vernaison Valley. Between 1844 and 1851, the Grands-Goulets Road (Route Départementale RD 518) was constructed, a "balcony road" built into the sheer limestone cliffs of the gorge to link the Pont-en-Royans area to the Vercors plateau at Échevis. The single-track road has numerous tunnels and few passing-places and was formerly popular with tourists. During the Second World War, the plateau became a stronghold of a French Resistance group called the Maquis du Vercors. On 22 January 1944, a column of 300 German troops arrived at the Grands Goulets on a punitive expedition. A small force of Maquisards attempted to block their progress but were either outgunned or outflanked by Gebirgsjäger Alpine troops at each blocking position that they established. When the coloumn reached Échevis, they burned the village in retaliation for the ambush of a German staff car a few days earlier. A plaque at La Chapelle-en-Vercors commemorates the twenty Maquisards who were killed in the fighting. The damaged road was later repaired and reopened in September 1945. After rockfalls in 2000 and 2005, the road was permanently closed to vehicles and pedestrians. A replacement road tunnel, 1,710 metres long and 7 metres wide was constructed, costing €50 million; it opened in 2008. A scheme to reopen the top 200 metres of the road to pedestrians as a tourist attraction was proposed by local authorities in 2016. The Grands Goulets are classified as a ZNIEFF or Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (Natural zone of ecological interest, fauna and flora). (en)
  • Tunnel des Grands Goulets( Ne doit pas être confondu avec Le Grand Goulet ou Grand'Goule. )( Pour les articles homonymes, voir Goulet. ) Les Grands Goulets sont des gorges situées dans le département français de la Drôme, dans la partie amont de la reculée de la Vernaison (ou vallée d'Échevis), dans la partie occidentale du massif du Vercors. Ce lieu, partagé entre les communes d'Échevis, La Chapelle-en-Vercors et Saint-Martin-en-Vercors, comprend également un tunnel de 1 700 mètres dénommé tunnel des Grands Goulets, inauguré le 28 juin 2008 par le conseil général de la Drôme. (fr)
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  • The Grands Goulets Road shortly before its closure in 2005 (en)
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  • Tunnel des Grands Goulets( Ne doit pas être confondu avec Le Grand Goulet ou Grand'Goule. )( Pour les articles homonymes, voir Goulet. ) Les Grands Goulets sont des gorges situées dans le département français de la Drôme, dans la partie amont de la reculée de la Vernaison (ou vallée d'Échevis), dans la partie occidentale du massif du Vercors. Ce lieu, partagé entre les communes d'Échevis, La Chapelle-en-Vercors et Saint-Martin-en-Vercors, comprend également un tunnel de 1 700 mètres dénommé tunnel des Grands Goulets, inauguré le 28 juin 2008 par le conseil général de la Drôme. (fr)
  • Les Grands Goulets (French language: The Great Bottlenecks) is a gorge in the western part of the Vercors Massif, located in the department of Drôme in Southeastern France. The gorge forms the head of the Vernaison Valley. Between 1844 and 1851, the Grands-Goulets Road (Route Départementale RD 518) was constructed, a "balcony road" built into the sheer limestone cliffs of the gorge to link the Pont-en-Royans area to the Vercors plateau at Échevis. The single-track road has numerous tunnels and few passing-places and was formerly popular with tourists. (en)
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