Col de la Bonette – France
It is a high mountain pass in the French Alps, near the border with Italy. It is situated within the Mercantour National Park on the border of the departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The road over the col is the seventh-highest paved road in the Alps.
The passage over the Col de la Bonette is often inaccurately referred to as the Col de Rest fond, and in the 2008 Tour de France the summit was mentioned as the Cime de la Bonette-Rest fond. Stage 16 of the tour approached the summit from Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée (south-east), and after reaching the Col de la Bonette, took a loop around the Cime de la Bonette reaching the summit of 9,193 ft, which is the highest point reached by the Tour de France, before re-passing the Col de la Bonette. On the parentage to Jausiers, the actual Col de Rest fond was then passed on the right approach 1 km from the summit.