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Road of Val Gardena
The highway 242 to Val Gardena and Passo Sella (SS 242, Grödner Straße in German), also called the road of the Dolomites in Val Gardena, Italian is a state highway that runs in South Tyrol. Through the landscape that in 2009, he was awarded the title of World Heritage Dolomites.
At kilometer 31, in Ponte Gardena, detaches from the Brenner road and crosses the Val Gardena, to end at 2,240 m to the Sella pass. The road is one of the most important links of the regions of the Dolomites.
Construction
The road was inaugurated on October 26, 1856. The construction follows an initiative of the traders Johann Baptist Moroder and his brother John, in 1843. Due to the cost issue , however, tracing is started only in 1853. The new road has given a decisive boost the economy and tourism . A first step , with a 14 % slope , is rather steep . Nel1914 the road was finally completed.
The costs of this work were covered with the setting up of a toll booth at Ponte Gardena . It is not known when the stretch of road Ortisei -Selva exists. However, it is known that the municipalities of Santa Cristina and Selva have maintained the road from Pescosta Plan since 1855 and in 1892 set up a toll booth at Pescosta for better care of the maintenance of the road. So it was that the inhabitants of Santa Cristina is found to pay toll to two .
Following the legislative decree September 2, 1997 , No. 320 , from 1 July 1998, the management was taken over by ANAS at the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and the Autonomous Province of Trento for sections of local courts . This has left the classification and the marking state (SS) to the road, because it is not a transfer from state property to that of the regions, but a delegation in terms of viability and therefore the ownership remains in the hands of to the state.