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{{Short description|Valley in Austria and Italy}}
{{for|the Italian district|Wipptal (district)}}
[[File:Sterzing-Vipiteno and Elzenbaumer Wetterkreuz.JPG|thumb|300px|A view over [[Sterzing]] in September 2004.]]

The '''Wipp Valley'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chow |first1=Fotini Katopodes |last2=Snyder |first2=Bradley J. |last3=De Wekker |first3=Stephan F. J. |title=Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting: Recent Progress and Current Challenges |date=2013 |publisher=Springer |location=Dordrecht |page=179|bibcode=2013mwrf.book.....C }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grupe |first1=Gisela |last2=Grigat |first2=Andrea |last3=McGlynn |first3=George C. |title=Across the Alps in Prehistory Isotopic Mapping of the Brenner Passage by Bioarchaeology |date=2018 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |location=Cham |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Willemse |first1=Saskia |last2=Furger |first2=Markus |title=From Weather Observations to Atmospheric and Climate Sciences in Switzerland: Celebrating 100 Years of the Swiss Society for Meteorology |date=2016 |publisher=Hochschulverlag an der ETH Zürich |location=Zurich |page=236}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Wipptal}}) is an Alpine valley in [[State of Tyrol|Tyrol]], Austria and in [[South Tyrol]], Italy, running between [[Innsbruck]] and [[Franzensfeste]]. The [[Brenner Pass]] (1,374 m) at the Austro-Italian border divides it into the northern, Austrian Lower Wipp Valley (''Unteres Wipptal'') and the southern, Italian Upper Wipp Valley (''Oberes Wipptal''). The Lower Wipp Valley extends along the [[Sill (river)|Sill]] River southward from [[Innsbruck]], where the Sill meets the larger [[Inn River]], up to the Brenner Pass. South of the border, the Upper Wipp Valley stretches along the [[Eisack]] River by way of [[Sterzing]] to [[Franzensfeste]]. It forms the [[Wipptal (district)|Wipptal District]] of the province of South Tyrol.

The Brenner [[Autobahn]] (motorway) (A13 in Austria, A22 in Italy) passes through the valley, beginning with the [[Europa Bridge]] near Innsbruck. It is an important road connection across the Alps, forming part of the connection between [[Munich]] and [[Verona]]. The inhabitants of the Wipp Valley have been complaining for years about the volume of traffic. The [[Brenner railway]] also runs through the valley. The proposed [[Brenner Base Tunnel]] would remove all long-distance trains from the valley.

Wipptal was politically and culturally united in the [[County of Tyrol]] and the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen]] up to the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of St Germain]] in 1920. 

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[[Category:Valleys of Tyrol (federal state)]]
[[Category:Valleys of the Alps]]
[[Category:Innsbruck-Land District]]
[[Category:Valleys of South Tyrol]]