When looking at historic routes across the Alps it is interesting to contrast it with modern trans-alpine traffic. What are the top 5 routes across the Alps today? Here it is worth noting that we have road and rail routes today. Even if they often run in parallel, there are interesting exceptions. Let’s look at …
Göschenen is a small village in the Reuss Valley of central Switzerland. Here, at a height of 1,100 m, the Gotthard railway line and the Gotthard motorway disappear into their tunnels. They take with them most of the traffic. The old Gotthard road heads now into an imposing narrow gorge that it somehow needs to …
