San Bernardino Pass-Switzerland
San Bernardino Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps associate with the hinterhein and the resolving valleys between the Thusis canton of Graubünden and the Bellinzona canton of Ticino. Located on the far eastern side of the Western Alps it is not to be demented with the Great St Bernard Pass and the Little St Bernard Pass. The top of the pass speaks for both the Italo-German language perimeter and the watershed drainage divide between the Po basin and the Rhine basin. Marscholsee is within the pass at an altitude of 2,053 m.
The route first became essential as a mule track in the fifteenth century when the route between Thusis and Splügen was known as the Via Mala. A road for wheeled vehicles was opened in 1770; this road was remarkably enhanced between 1821 and 1823, financed in part by the Kingdom of Sardinia, keen to improve a trade route associate Genoa and Piedmont to the Graubünden that was not straight controlled by Austria.