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History

With its 314 km connecting the Brenner Pass with Modena and used by millions of people every year, the A22 Brenner Motorway is a significant element of the past and present identity of the territories it crosses through.

Probably only a few people remember when the only road available along the same route was the national road No. 12, the Abetone and Brenner road, with all of its limitations, and certainly not many stop to think of how very different the country’s economic, social and cultural development would have been without this vital connection with Northern Europe.

Memory, however, is a vital tool in comprehending the value of what we have available and, in the case of the A22, memory takes us back to the post-WWII era when the motorway’s creators, i.e. the Trentino-South Tyrol region together with the institutions of the other provinces involved – launched a project that would be crucial to Italy’s development, defending it with determination despite the timid support of the State, and putting on the plate energy and technical and economic resources to accomplish it despite all the obstacles met along the way.

The fundamental milestones of this project consisted in the establishment of Autostrada del Brennero SpA on 20 February 1959, the construction of the entire motorway in just ten years (from 1964 to 1974) and the corporate consolidation that led the company to gain its first operating profit in 1984.

Since then, the public bodies that hold stakes in Autostrada del Brennero SpA have continued in the footsteps of their predecessors, to ensure the top-quality management of the infrastructure. The A22 today is a structure that the provinces it crosses through are proud of. It is an asset abounding in results in terms of safety, affinity with the local communities, planning of a quality future based on sustainable mobility and on the upgrading of the entire Italian motorway system.

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