Gordon Wilkins and Michael Frostick drive down the fastest road to the sun.
Opening to traffic in the next few weeks is the Autostrada of the Flowers, the missing link in the first European motorway from London to Sicily-the E.1. The new road runs from Menton on the French frontier to join the Italian autostrada system at Savona. It brings Rome within six hours drive of Nice, and with ninety viaducts and sixty tunnels it is a mountain highway running high above the ground for most of its seventy miles.
First shown on BBC-2 at Easter, this is the story of how the Autostrada dei Fiori was built and what it will mean to holiday motorists from Britain.

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