Rural tradition meets modern facilities in the upper Val Passiria: This is the area of Moso in Passiria
The largest municipality by area in the Val Passiria is also the municipality located directly on the E5 European long-distance path. It stretches from the French Atlantic coast across the Alps to Venice and includes Moso: The royal stage leads from the Braunschweiger Hut in the Austrian Pitztal via the Passo del Rombo to Moso and can be completed in two or three days.
If you come to San Leonardo in Passiria, the road forks: The right turn goes towards the Passo di Monte Giovo, the left to Moso. The municipality includes the hamlets of Ulfas (or Ulvas) and Stulles on the slopes as well as Plata, where the famous glacial mills can be found. Furthermore, the main village of Moso, Corvara on the road to the Passo del Rombo, and the entire Valle di Plan, extending up to Plan, belong to it.
Its centre has been car-free for years and Plan itself is known for its alpine pastures and special microclimate: It allows for impressive snow depths and uniquely reliable snow conditions. This in turn delights winter sports enthusiasts, who find magnificent conditions here under the 3,000-metre peaks of the Oetztal Alps: The Plan Passiria Skiing Area is also located here, the Grünboden Express starts right at the edge of the village.
Moso in Passiria extends as a municipality up to the 3,480-metre high summit of the Altissima: The giant rock rises on Austrian and Italian territory - the South Tyrolean parts belong to the Gruppo di Tessa Nature Park. There is so much to discover around Moso that the individual museums have joined together to form UpperPassiria Museum: the Bunker Mooseum, the Stieber Mooseum and the Museum Timmel Transit with its various locations along the high alpine road.
The municipality is today a member of "Alpine Pearls", an international network that specialises in soft, environmentally friendly and sustainable tourism in the Alps. A milestone for species conservation in South Tyrol, however, was celebrated in 2025, when a hatched bearded vulture took to the skies above the Val Passiria again for the first time in a century.
