The 10 most beautiful mountain passes are made for road trips through the Alps

There are a lot, but some are much more beautiful than others. And of course the most beautiful ones run directly through nature - for example through the. Just like this:The most beautiful mountain passes in the Alps.

But it is also really impressively beautiful how these mountain passes meander through rich alpine pastures and rugged rock landscapes - there is a wanderlust on your neck again!

The Gotthard Pass has been extremely important since the Middle Ages that leads directly over the central alps. Named after the St. Godehard von Hildesheim, a famous saint in the Middle Ages, the Gotthard Pass connects the Swiss towns of Altdorf and Biasca over a total length of 110 kilometers. The highest point of the pass is 2,107 meters. The most exciting place in the pass is on the south flank: with 24 serpentines, the cobblestone tremola passage winds through the breathtakingly beautiful landscape of the. In 2030, the mountain pass, by the way, celebrates its 200th anniversary.

Even higher than the Gotthard Pass, namely at an altitude of up to 2,239 meters, the Pordoijoch, a pass on the Dolomite Road, leads through an impressive landscape between the Sella and Marmolata group in South Tyrol in. You have to take about 60 curves if you go out completely - but the manyCompensate very much! It is particularly worthwhile to stop at the pass, from which you can also get up to the summit of Sass Pordoi with the cable car - with an even more beautiful view!

The Swiss canton of Graubünden runs the San Bernardino pass with a vertical height of 2,066 meters. The approximately 100-kilometer mountain pass is also a language border between German and Italian. A journey across the passport is worth it, because the mountain landscapes is really impressively beautiful: rugged high mountain landscapes, evergreen needle and extensive deciduous forests, and not to forget the breathtaking Viamala- Beautiful everything!

In the middle of the greatHohe Tauern leads the Großglockner High Alpine Road on 48 kilometers from the Salzburg region to Carinthia through a breathtakingly beautiful landscape: alpine meadows, mountain forests and with luck a bright blue sky - it can hardly be more beautiful in the Alps. The highest point of the mountain pass is the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, from which one has a grandiose view to the summit of the Großglockner, the highest mountain.

It is the highest passable pass of the Alps: the 2,764 meter high Col de l'Iseran in France, which leads from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Lanslevillard. And although the mountain pass leads to dizzying heights, it rarely becomes steeper than eight percent. Of course, it is particularly beautiful at the pass, but one should be aware of the fact that they are mostly in the clouds for climatic reasons.

The Stilfser Joch (Italian: Passo Dello Stelvio) runs through the Ortler Alps-with a height of 2,757, the highest mountain pass through an asphalted road (SS 38) in Italy and the second highest mountain pass of the Alps after the Col de l'Seran. The pass connects on a very narrow street with tight serpentines bormio in the Veltlin with Prad in Vinschgau, and if you drive along the pass, it immediately becomes clear why it also leads the nickname "Queen of the Alpine Streets". Because the panoramic prospects for the Ötztal Alps are one of the most beautiful things you can see in the Alps.

The Timmelsjoch (sometimes also called Timmel in short) is a border pass between Austria (Tyrol) and Italy (South Tyrol) - the only passable transition from the main Alpine ridge between Reschen and Brenner. On extremely winding streets it goes up to around 2,500 meters, from where a fantastic view of the Tyrolean Alps is offered - with good visibility you can sometimes even see up to the Dolomites! However, the passport can only be passed on in summer and will be closed from October to the end of May.

The fur capass leads through the Alps to a height of 2,429 meters and connects the Urserental in the canton of Uri with the district of Goms in the canton of Valais. In between, the mountain pass always follows the old Furka-Oberalp-Zahnradbahn, whose historical steam locomotives can be seen every now and then during their journey through the Swiss Alps-always a spectacle, especially for children. The mountain pass leads up in the typical zigzag on the edge of the Rhonegletscher. There is still the Hotel Belvédère, the most famous Passhotel in the world. Unfortunately, you can no longer stop there, because the repair of the old wall was so expensive at some point that it was no longer worth keeping it into operation.

The beautiful mountain pass Col du Galibier, whose pass road was built in 1876 - leads over the French Alps - and which is the fifth highest asphalted road pass in the Alps with a height of 2,642 meters. The route between St. Michel de Maurienne and Briançon is known primarily through the: As a feared, because insanely powerful mountains of the famous bike race. Because the pass runs on almost vertical steep slopes on steep curves through the high mountain landscape of the skin alpes. If you like it a little less strenuous, you better take the car, but either way: the view is worth it!

On the 2,284 high Julier Pass in Switzerland, the European watershed runs between the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube, and it connects Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine with deep castle in the Albulatal. And here too: If you get bad quickly when driving a car, the route should help but better, because when the Julier Pass drives it it gets pretty curvy. The alpine landscape is crossed by a lot of rubble, but always fulfills the view of the beautiful Alpine meadows with humility.