Viller Steig or nearby Bachgang (Igls-Vill-Innsbruck), walking the Via Tirolensis … following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica follow this little route in Tyrol, Austria, February 1993.
Walking two pilgrimage routes at once, February 1993 : both the St James Way (Jakobsweg , Camino de Santiago) and the Via Romea Germanica follow this path between Igls and Patsch in Tyrol, Austria.
The roads starts as Fernkreuzweg in Igls , and continues as Sportplatzweg beyond that little hill on the right, the Ameisbichl (Ant hill), at the border of the municipality of Patsch.
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First snow on Christmas Eve at the Viller Steig walking the Via Tirolensis … following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica. Both these pilgrimage routes follow this little road, the Viller Steig, between the villages Vill and Igls, in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Dec 24th 2025.
Via Tirolensis
The Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route, goes from Stade near Hamburg in Germany to Rome, Italy. The Tyrolean section (Via Tirolensis) in Austria and Italy of the Via Romea, goes from Mittenwald (German/Austrian border) – via Seefeld, Innsbruck, Vill, Igls, Patsch, to Brenner – Brenner (Austrian/Italian border), and next to Bolzano in South-Tyrol, Italy.
Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jacobsweg): This road between Igls and Vill is also part of the Brenner – Innsbruck stage of the East Tyrol route in the Camino de Santiago network in Austria and Italia , the ‘Jakobsweg Osttirol’ .
In the old town of Innsbruck at the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) this East Tyrol route merges with the main (east to west route in Austria), the ‘Jacobsweg Tirol’.
Cross-country skiing in Seefeld along the Via Tirolensis, the Tyrolean section of the Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route.
Point-of-view shot on the Seewiesen (tr. Lake meadows) to Seekirchl (tr. Lake chapel/church), December 27, 2025.
Christmas 2025 on the Patscherkofel mountain slopes above Igls-Innsbruck. Venue of the Olympic Games in Austria in 1964 and 1976 and the youth edition of 2012.
Via Tirolensis
Skiing along the Römer Straße (Roman road), a Tyrolean section of the Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route from Stade near Hamburg in Germany to Rome , Italy. Close to the prehistoric Igls-Goldbichl sanctuary.
Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Skating Tour) Thursday 22 januari 1942 with extremely low temperatures, ranging from -33 Celcius at sunrise to -15 later that the day. Despite the German occupation, a record number of participants showed up at the start, 95% of whom managed to reach the finish. After the race, the Leeuwarden Diaconessen Hospital saw an influx of cold-related injuries. Many skaters suffered frostbite, including frostbitten eyes, ears, toes, hands, and even genitals. Some had to undergo amputations of their toes. Three tour riders later died in the hospital as a result of their frostbite injuries. (1). Nazi-approved dutch cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’.
Film source: Dutch newsreel by Polygoon (producer) in collaboration with the German Tobis Film for the Nazi controlled cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’ (Feb 1942). Courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
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