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Once the Gotthard was with its pass height of 2107 m.ü.M. as an insurmountable obstacle and the bridge over the Schöllenenschlucht as a work of the devil. Whoever takes the easy way through the Gotthard tunnel today, can hardly imagine this. But those who love breathtaking landscapes and curves prefer a different route: on the southern flank of the mountain massif, a venerable road winds its way down the valley, presenting itself in its historic guise and making the hearts of all sports car fans run wild. Tremola is the name of the granite-stone-paved pass road, which, at a length of six to seven meters, leads through breakneck serpentines and up to eight-meter-high walls from the pass to Airolo. In its most spectacular section, it hunts four kilometers in 24 turns no less than 300 meters in altitude.
The pass road over the Gotthard can only be described as breathtaking. The route from the canton of Uri to Ticino leads through the wild Schöllenen Gorge with its fabled Devil’s Bridge up to the top of the pass at 2,108 metres above sea level and over the cobblestoned Tremola Road with its 24 spine-tingling switchbacks down into Ticino. At the same time, it is a journey through more than 800 years of Alpine transport history. And while traffic grinds to a halt in the congestion at the entrance to the Gotthard Tunnel, cornering connoisseurs on two or four wheels smile smugly as they revel in the intoxicating uphill switchbacks of the Gotthard Pass or sweep like slalom skiers down through the historic twists and turns.
