Road station
Vepiteno
Sterzing?
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Vepiteno is Vipitenum, Vipiteno in Italian and Sterzing in German, at the foot of the Brenner in South Tyrol, where the Roman name has never quite disappeared. It was a staging post on the road over the Brenner to Augsburg, in the land of the Raeti that Drusus conquered, and a Roman tombstone is still walled into the church of Sterzing. On the map the distance to the next station is written with a dot in the middle, thirty, dot, five.