6 Sights in Stilfs - Stelvio, Italy (with Map and Images)

The White War is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adamello-Presanella Alps. More than two-thirds of this conflict zone lies at an altitude above 2,000m, rising to 3905m at Mount Ortler. In 1917 New York World correspondent E. Alexander Powell wrote: “On no front, not on the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, nor in the frozen Mazurian marshes, nor in the blood-soaked mud of Flanders, does the fighting man lead so arduous an existence as up here on the roof of the world.”

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Ortler is, at 3,905 m (12,812 ft) above sea level, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps outside the Bernina Range. It is the main peak of the Ortler Range. It is the highest point of the Southern Limestone Alps, of South Tyrol in Italy, of Tyrol overall, and, until 1919, of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. In German the mountain is commonly referred to as "König Ortler", like in the unofficial hymn of South Tyrol, the Bozner Bergsteigerlied.

Wikipedia: Ortler (EN)

The Gomagoi roadblock, built in 1860/62, was located above the village of Gomagoi of the same name at the confluence of the Trafoi Valley with the Solda Valley and had the important task of blocking the road from the Stelvio Pass to the Vinschgau Valley and over the Reschen Pass into the Inn Valley. It was part of the overall system of the Austrian defensive barrier on the imperial border with Italy.

Wikipedia: Straßensperre Gomagoi (DE)

Piz da las Trais Linguas, is a minor summit of the Ortler Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy. The summit is the tripoint between the Italian regions of Lombardy and South Tyrol and the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Before World War I it was the international tripoint of Switzerland, the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary. The Romansh and German names refer to the encounter of different linguistic areas in this region. The Italian name refers to Giuseppe Garibaldi, however losing the reference to the meeting of different cultures.

Wikipedia: Piz da las Trais Linguas (EN)

The Königspitze is a mountain of the Ortler Alps on the border between South Tyrol and the Province of Sondrio (Lombardy), Italy. After the Ortler, it is the second highest peak in the Ortler Alps, at a height of 3,851m.

Wikipedia: Königspitze (EN)

The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the parish church of Trafoi, a hamlet of Stelvio, in the autonomous province of Bolzano. He belongs to the deanery of Malles of the diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Visitazione della Beata Maria Vergine (Stelvio) (IT)