Worlds Best Drives A8 / A10 France to Italy

This is the road that goes from the Cote D'Azur to The Italian Riviera.

This part of the Mediterranean coast is where the Alps meet the sea.

To create a motorway that runs through this region required one of the greatest engineering feats known.

Starting at Cannes (famous for it's annual film festival), the road slowly rises uphill to gain the altitude required. Once the height has been reached (around about Monaco) the motorway then zooms through the Alps, across massive viaducts that soar hundreds of feet above the valleys below, and when a mountain gets in the way, a hole has been drilled straight through it.

This makes for one of the most spectacular drives anywhere in the world.

Although it is not always obvious on this movie, the road never strays more than a kilometer from the sea.

For those of you interested, the physical distance covered in this movie is around 100 miles, or 160 Km. The average speed observed is therefore around 400 mph / 640 kph.

The date this recording was made is March 2011

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[ggharek]

How fast were you going?

[SonicSouvenir]

@ggharek

About 90 - 100 kph

[ggharek]

@SonicSouvenir Are you sure its 90-100 kph? Or do you mean 90-100mph? If I recall correctly, the speed limit on their motorways is 130 km/h for automobiles.

[SonicSouvenir]

@ggharek Yes - I am very sure. I am driving a big RV / or motorhome as we call it here. The speed limit is much faster than I was going, but my vehicle is not exactly a stable speed monster - and have you seen those drops :-0

[judgeofwar]

hoooo my god! excellent video, i'll try to do that, with the N98 from Hyeres to Cannes,

you drive on the most beautiful roads in the world, that's sure!

what are the music please?

thankss :)

[SonicSouvenir]

@judgeofwar

The music is from a 70s / 80s band called Voyage. Tracks are 'Souvenir', and 'Voyage'.

Hope you have a great drive from Hyeres to Cannes :)

Thanks for your nice comments Judge,

[mcobinad]

After watching this video, am tempted to go on holiday to push my 63 AMG engine on french roads. Just one of the best roads in europe and gorgeous landscapes :-)

[eepflp]

Thank you for making this video, I did the route in 2008, I drove the Mercedes A-Class and I must say that this is the nicest way ever traveled, I left Milan and went to Cannes and back,

[lamboespanda]

I don't ushally like speeded up videos, but yours I like, must be the music!

Thanks for sharing.

[kopynd1]

we travelled from newcastle via nancy, lyon, monico,genova and back home, 0n our motorcycles, best trip ever, the french riviera was class,tunnels and bridges,

[sambo2566]

i have driven this road and wondered if anyone had ever gone over the side of one of the viaducts

[poketehnoob]

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