The Stilfserjoch Road

The Stilfserjoch Road is considered a pioneering achievement of mountain road building. After only five years of building work, from 1820 to 1825, at the time of the Congress of Vienna, engineer Carlo Donegani brought Spondinig and Worms (Bormio) onto the horse-drawn post-coach route.

The total length of the road is 49,2435 kms. 48 bends lead from Spondinig to the top of the pass (2763 m) and a further 34 from there to Bormio. Today the road links three neighbouring valleys of the Central Alps: the Vinschgau, the Münstertal and the Veltlin and the regions of South Tyrol, Graubünden and Lombardy in two countries.

The pass road has had a chequered history: following the stage-coach the century of the car and motor bike rider. It is a very popular road with cyclists, too. The Stilfserjoch Road is known to all cycling enthusiasts as the crowning stage of the Giro d`Italia race.

At the moment the road is being modernised by the autonomous province of Bozen and developed as a panorama road in the framework of the INTERREG II project