Col du Sabion

A traditional passageway, Col du Sabion towards Val d'Entraque (Italy) occupies a strategic position on the watershed.
While international tensions were growing prior to the Second World War, the col was the subject of engineering work commissioned by the Italian government: dry-stone barracks, semi-buried bunkers, telephone lines and barbed wire fences which today, with hindsight, appears to be a manifestation of hostile behaviour.