Brenner Railway bypass was completed in 1994 to improve access to the Lower Inn Valley railway. The bypass consists of a 12.75-kilometre tunnel (Austria's longest) and aims to remove the bulk of the freight train traffic from Innsbruck. In Italy, several new sections have been built, removing sections of line with several short tunnels with small cross sections. These include the 13.159-metre long Sciliar tunnel opened in 1994, the 7.267-metre long Pflersch tunnel opened in 1999 and the 3,939-metre long Cardano tunnel opened in 1998. Following a sharp increase in freight traffic through the Brenner Pass (largely on road), the railway is
Journey to Italy (book) Journey to Italy (book) Diary of Journey to Italy ("Deník" or "Denník na cestě do Itálie", 1834) is a travel book by Czech poet Karel Hynek Mácha, which was likely not meant to be published. Mácha with his friend Antonín Štrobach set off walking from Prague on 1834. They passed through Sázava, Tábor, Český Krumlov, and Linz to Salzburg, where they went to the churches and galleries, then via Hellbrunn, Reichenhall, Innsbruck through Brenner Pass to Tarvisio and finally to Venice. The journey took three weeks; parts of it they went on post coach. They spent just one day and