Brenner Pass

pass · AT · 1372 m

47.0033, 11.5075

The lowest and busiest of the major Alpine passes at 1,372 metres, linking Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy through the Wipp Valley. The Romans built a road here in the first century, the Via Claudia Augusta, and the route has been the most important north-south crossing of the Alps ever since. The modern Brenner railway was opened in 1867 as the first high-altitude alpine line without a summit tunnel. Today the motorway carries roughly a quarter of all freight traffic crossing the Alps by road. The surrounding peaks are in the Stubai and Zillertal Alps.