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unusual facts about Stelvio Pass


Project CARS

In addition to real world racing circuits and fictional kart circuits, there are some fictional point-to-point roads inspired by real locations such as Côte d'Azur, California Pacific Coast, and there are plans for the Stelvio Pass.


Fort Montecchio-Lusardi

The main function of the fort was to control the roads of Spluga, Maloja and Stelvio, in case the Central Powers decided to invade northern Italy, violating the neutrality of Switzerland.


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Jörg Jenatsch

In 1620, an uprising coordinated with the Spanish governor in Milan resulted in the massacre of a number of Protestants in the Republic's subject territory in the Valtellina, a fertile valley of considerable strategic importance (for through it the Spaniards in Milan could communicate by the Umbrail Pass and the Stelvio Pass with the Austrians in Tirol).