But a second supply route passing through southwestern Pakistan has remained open.
This might also be called the cultural route, passing more than a dozen museums, galleries and theaters.
Dubbed the "Lampedusa of the North" by the anti-immigration Northern League, Friuli-Venezia Giulia has borne the brunt of refugees, many from Afghanistan, arriving via the "Balkans route", passing through Turkey, Macedonia and Hungary.
In 2003, a couple in the town of Chittenden was denied permission to build an extension onto their home when an independent researcher, hired by the town, discovered an ancient mail route passing right through their property.
The goal is not scientific but protective: to keep ships from hitting the slow-moving, endangered whales as they creep along their coast-hugging migratory route, passing in view of the last remaining undeveloped barrier islands that flank the southern Georgia coast.
This stage was dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the first world war, with the route passing the former battlefield of Chemin des Dames, and the French president François Hollande was on hand to pay tribute to the soldiers and the riders.
