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antibes - A8 autoroute

Photograph by Vancouver Laser & Skincare Centreon Flickr.

The A8 autoroute, La Provençale, is a 224-kilometer (139.187-mile) -long highway in France between Aix-en-Provence and the A7 to the antibes A8 autoroute Côte d Azur. The A8 is an extension of the A7 starting to the west of Aix-en-Provence at La Fare-les-Oliviers. It antibes serves the towns of Aix-en-Provence, Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël, Cannes, Antibes, Nice, antibes Monaco and Menton before crossing the border where it becomes the A10 in Italy.

The autoroute is regularly closed on the Nice-Menton section as a result antibes Ligue Nationale de Basketball of rock falls onto the carriageways. It crosses the mountain ranges of Sainte-Balsam and of Maures between Aix-en-Provence and Frejus and it antibes Massif de l Ésterel between Saint-Raphaël and Cannes.

As a result, traffic-management schemes have been adopted between Var to Nice-West similar to those on the Péripherique in Paris. Following the Grande Corniche the road offers panoramas of the sea between Nice and Menton. The road has heavy traffic all antibes year round and is especially congested in July and August (in particular around Antibes and Nice.

The sections crossing the Maures and L Esterel mountains are at risk from forest fires in summer. A 1 | A 2 | A 3 | A 4 | A 5 | A 6 | A 7 | A 8 | antibes A 9 | A 10 | A 11 | A 12 | A 13 | A 14 | A 15 | A 16 | A 19 | A 20 | A 21 | A 22 | A 23 | A 25 | A 26 | A 27 | A 28 | A 29 | A 30 | A 31 | A 32 | A 33 | A 34 | A 35 | A 36 | antibes A 38 | A 39 | A 40 | A 41 | A 42 | A 43 | A 44 | A 45 | A 46 | A 47 | A 48 | A 49 | A 50 | A 51 | A 52 | A 54 | A 55 | A 57 | A 61 | A 62 | A 63 | A 64 | A 65 | A 66 | A 68 | antibes A 71 | A 72 | A 75 | A 77 | A 79 | A 81 | A 83 | A 84 | A 85 | A 86 | A 87 | A 89 | A 103 | A 104 | A 105 | A 110 | A 115 | A 131 | A 132 | A 150 | A 151 | A 186 | A 199 | A 203 | A 330 | A 390 | A 404 | A 406 | A 430 | A 432 | A 501 | A 520 | A 570 | A 630 | A 660 | A 680 | A 711 | A 719 | A 750 | A 831 | A 837 . The road passes through the Departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Alpes-Maritimes.