Pilgrim walks in Brennero

Official route description - Stage 58The approximately 2,200-kilometre-long pilgrimage route "VIA ROMEA GERMANICA" from Stade to Rome on its route section between Matrei am Brenner and the Brenner Pass

In Austria, the Via Romea Germanica is divided into 4 daily stages.

Romediusweg: from Thaur/T to San Romedio/IT

Route: Brenner - Gossensaß - Oberried - Sterzing - Stilfes. The Brenner has been crossed and today's stage takes us down surprisingly beautiful paths into the Sterzing basin.

Gries am Brenner

The history of the Brenner is closely connected with the pass which takes its name from the Breunes, a tribe settled in the upper Isarco Valley and over the waershed, in Roman times. A region they called Vallis Vipitina. In the 2nd C. a.D. the Romans built a military road, some of whose milestones are still standing, since the age of Marc Aurel, Septimius Severus and Caracalla. Significant remains of this road are in full view for long stretches near the modern roads. Worthy of notice, in Brenner town, is St. Valentine’s Church built on the site where in 565 a sanctuary to St Valentine had been built. The bell tower was built in the 16th C. whereas the body of the church and the portal were built in the 15th C. For those interested in matters concerning World War II, a bunker can be visited by climbing 84 steps above the church

Die Etappe des Jakobsweges von Niedervintl führt über Mühlbach und Aicha nach Franzensfeste, dann weiter nach Mittewald, Grasstein, Pfulters und Stilfes zur Pfarrkirche "Maria im Moos". Über den Besinnungsweg geht es zur Jakobuskirche in Thuins und zum Stadtplatz in Sterzing, von dort über die Altstadt und entlang des Wegs 21 nach Gossensaß und schließlich zum Brennerpass.