Stelvio Road

Description The Stelvio Road is considered a pioneering work in the construction of mountain roads. Some 50 km long, it was commissioned by the Austrian Empire and built between 1820 and 1826 under the supervision of Carlo Donegani, in order to provide a direct road link between the Lombardy region and the other regions that belonged to the Empire. During the Great War, between 1915 and 1917, the Italian front ran along the Stelvio Road, and traces of military fortifications remain visible to this day. Since it was originally built, few changes have been made to the road, which is a total of 49.2 km long. Today the north-western slope of Prato allo Stelvio (915 m) has 48 numbered bends.

Permission

Gemeinde Stilfs - Comune di Stelvio Bürgermeister - Sindaco Dr. Hartwig Tschenett
Stilfs Dorf - Stelvio Paese 24
39029 - Stilfs - Stelvio
Phone +39 0473 611739
Fax +39 0473 611570
E-mail info@gemeinde.stilfs.bz.it
Web www.gemeinde.stilfs.bz.it

Permission

Amtsdirektor - Direttore d`Ufficio Geom. Werner Stecher
Lichtenberg - Montechiaro
39026 - Prad am Stilfserjoch - Prato allo Stelvio
Phone +39 0473 616090
Fax +39 0473 617140
E-mail strassendienst.vinschgau@provinz.bz.it

Categories: Roads, streets, squares

Setting: alpine, high mountain

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