Munich to Venice road trip
≈ 580 km · ~7 h driving · ideal in 8 days · 5 stops
Beer halls to gondolas in under 600 km, with the Alps in between. This drive crosses the Brenner line of the Alps, dips into the Dolomites' pale towers, and lands in the lagoon — one of Europe's highest-contrast short road trips.
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The route at a glance
- Munich — 1 night
- Innsbruck — 1 night
- Bolzano — 1 night
- Cortina d'Ampezzo — 2 nights
- Venice — 2 nights
The stops
- 1
Munich
Start with a lap of Marienplatz and a beer garden evening in the Englischer Garten before pointing the car at the mountains.
- 2
Innsbruck
The Nordkette cable car climbs from the old town to 2,256 m in twenty minutes — do it before dinner under the Golden Roof.
- 3
Bolzano
South Tyrol's capital mixes strudel and aperitivo; Ötzi the Iceman in the archaeology museum is worth the queue.
- 4
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Base for the Dolomites' greatest hits — Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Lago di Braies and the Passo Giau switchbacks.
- 5
Venice
Finish on the water: cicchetti crawls in Cannaregio beat anything on Piazza San Marco, and dawn on the Rialto is a different city.
Good to know
June–September keeps the high Dolomite passes open and green; late September adds larch colour. Austria and Italy both require a motorway vignette/toll. Park in Mestre or Tronchetto and take the vaporetto in — Venice itself is car-free.
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