Brenner Pass from Sterzing

June 2018 starting from Sterzing/Vipiteno cycled the Italian side of the Brenner Pass (Passo del Brennero).
Not as indicated on the Climbfinder map via the dangerously busy national road. Thanks to the last part of the CAR FREE "fietsostrade" (radweg) Bolzano-Brenner there is a wonderful alternative.
Admirably constructed next to/above/below state highway (SS12), motorway (Brennerautobahn) and railway in one of Europe's busiest traffic arteries. Over a distance of 22 km, slightly longer than the main road through the bicycle loop, which turns into the Fleres valley in Gossenssas and ends via an old railway bed on the western flank of the Brenner valley, one climbs up to the border crossing.
The end point is a busy border town with a special atmosphere, where in addition to the necessary catering facilities and even a bicycle clothing shop, a large outlet shopping centre has now been built.

The Italians prove that it is possible to provide a place for cyclists in a busy traffic junction!
A beautiful asphalted bicycle path that looks for nature as much as possible, with some steep climbs and also descents, bicycle information posts and two lighted bicycle tunnels.