The European route E27 is a road in

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, part of the

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, running between

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and

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. Between these two cities, most of the route passes through

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, including a section along the eastern shore of the

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, and a mountain section that peaks at just above 1,900 metres in the

Great St Bernard Tunnel The Great St Bernard Tunnel (, , ) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy). Description There is a ...

. Much of the route has not currently been upgraded to autoroute quality. However, major improvements in recent years have occurred in the region of the Franco-Swiss frontier and on the continuation to

Delémont Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants . History The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...

, with further extension of the motorway section south of Delémont ongoing. Progress is slow because of the mountainous terrain. Apart from the Swiss capital,

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, the towns and cities linked by the E27 tend to be medium sized or smaller. Much of route is dominated by mountainous landscapes, with a correspondingly high profile tourist trade: mountain valley agriculture or viticulture are also in evidence where the topography permits. Several sections of the E27 are more than averagely occupied by tunnels and viaducts.

References

External links

UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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