Swiss Alps #5 - San Bernardino & Splügen
In today's episode, our brave explorers venture a little further afield and make their merry way, firstly to the frankly amazing San Bernardino Pass and then on to the Splügen Pass.
Lot's of bends, lots of views, lots of sun, lots of mountains and lots of galvanising opinions!
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HD Splugen Pass into Switzerland
An easy downhill ride on the Splugen Pass to the roadworks..!
Splügen, Switzerland
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The Swiss A13 motorway must be one of the most attractive motorways in Europe although it is not really a motorway by the time it gets this far as it some places it is one lane only although the route is charged. Splügen is one of the last villages in the valley before one comes to the San Bernadino tunnel - or if it is summer and one is feeling brave, then the San Bernadino Pass.
Splügen is a historic village and the houses of the merchants who traded along the route can be seen in the village. In the summer one can also visit historic bridges to see how people once travelled across the Alps.
Not far from the village is the source of the Rhine.
In 1995, the Swiss Heritage Society bestowed the Wakker Prize to Splügen. The prize description notes that Splügen had reached a notable compromise between preservation and tourism. The old town was strictly protected to maintain the original appearance, while rational zone planning allowed development to occur outside the old village.
For more information see the film!
Heading Up Splugen pass Sep 2017
Italy to Switzerland, what a road, what a view, what a height when you look over the road edge :-)
Motorbike ride in The Splugen Pass (Andeer, CH - Hinterrhein, CH)
Motorbike ride in the beautiful Splügenpass in Switzerland.
Splügen Pass Northbound
Driving SS 36 Spluga Pass Italy 7/15/2018
Splugen pass from Swiss side - Emo
Splugen pass-Passo Spluga (CH) 27/8/2019
Splugen pass CH (Passo Spluga) percorso il 27/8/2019 in Suzuki V strom 1000. Velocità del video aumentata del 40%. Il primo di 5 sconfinamenti fra Svizzera ed Italia fatti lo stesso giorno attraverso passi bellissimi.
Splugenpass: Italy to Switzerland
Going from Italy to Switzerland through Splugenpass. Spectacular Scenery.
Night in the mountains - Splügen Switzerland
Splugen Reservoir to Switzerland
Top of the Splugen pass crossing the Swiss border into Italy
Splügen Pass, 4K 360 degree VR Video, Switzerland to Italy On a Motorcycle
360 degree video of the very bumpy but extremely wriggly Splügen pass from North to South, crossing the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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Passo Spluga - Splugenpass by drone and motorcycle | DroneRidersClub #002
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Magnificent views, an escape from Summer heat, a lovely alpine lake, a massive dam and a road perfect for our motorcycles.
This is Passo Spluga.
DRC Score for Passo Spluga
View: 9/10 – it’s truly the heart of the Alps.
Surface: 7/10 – decent enough to enjoy it.
Turns: 9/10 – Swiss side is a true rollercoaster experience on two wheels.
Danger: 8/10 – hairpins in tunnels carved inside the rock? Yay!
Been-there-alone-factor: 4/10 – Car – Car – Caravan – Car…
Our journey today starts in the town of Chiavenna, famous for her Crotti, a mix between caves and cellars built to exploit natural streams of cool air coming from cracks in the stone, an ingenious ancient times version of our fridges.
From Chiavenna you can choose two roads, both perfect for a motorcycle tourer: proceed north-east to reach Passo Maloja and St. Moritz or go North towards Passo Spluga.
The road, wide enough to let you give some peeks to the surrounding panorama, will quickly bring you through some hairpins to the village of Campodolcino and its artificial lake. Be sure to fill up there as there will be no more petrol stations from here to Switzerland!
Right after Campodolcino the road gets from good to stunning: it was built in 1821 by the Austrians out of nowhere, on the side of the mountain basically challenging the force of gravity.
Ten steep hairpins, some of them carved inside the rock through tiny tunnels, leading you to the Pianazzo waterfall.
Keep going until you find the tunnel to Madesimo, ignore it and keep left towards the pass. Pine trees now are replaced by green pastures and rocks, and slowly the road gets less steep. Behind a turn you will be welcomed by a massive rock dam, with the number MCMXXXI (1931) on its center. Keep going and the wonderful Montespluga lake and the blue of its waters will literally leave you breathless.
The road borders the lake until you reach the last Italian village of montespluga: some vacation houses, a couple of restaurants, hotels and a church. Cross it and start riding on the last hairpins among a more and more barren and beautiful landscape until you reach the Pass!
There’s absolutely nothing on the Italian side, except an open border checkpoint, while a couple of hundred meters beyond it, at the Swiss border, you’ll find a restaurant named Berghaus. From here, the road goes quickly down to the Splugen valley via 14 narrow hairpins.
Stop your motorcycle at the bottom and turn around to check what kind of road you just completed, a sort of geometric painting on the side of the valley!
You can’t call it a ride without some proper local food
I told you about the Crotti at the beginning of the article. I chose Crotto al Prato for your lunch break, as it’s one of the best ones! Pizzoccheri, Piota (a local barbeque on stone), cheese and biscuits for € 17.
Keep riding, keep exploring!
Splugen Pass Switzerland side
Touring Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Holland plus other countries in and around that weren't being rained on. September 2017
On the way to the Splügen serpentine
From Chiavenna to the italian-swiss boarder
Down the Splügen Pass into Italy
Bike is an SV650
Chasing porsche up the Italian side splugen pass