CLUB ALPINO ITALIANO
NOTES ON THE TERRITORY
Inhabitants: 215 (called “rocchettini). Altitude: 390 mt.
Hamlets: Bregni Inferiore and Superione, Celio, Pagliaro
Inferiore and Superiore, Piani di Celio, St Ambrogio, Sisola.
Sprts installation: atleti ground, biking and biking tracks,
camper service, bowling alley.
The “first” Rocchetta, that is the original village, dating back
to the century and documented in the first half of the XIIIth
century, was placed on the left side of the stream Sisola
right in front of today’s Rocchetta and under the bank, near
Saint Antony brook. Saint Antony was also the name of the
ald church, now disappeared with the remaining part of the
village: only some stones can be seen. The church was then
rebuilt during the second half of the XVIIth century in the
new village. Only a small group of houses existed, they were
called MARUGHI and had developed in an important feudal
centre of the XVIIth century under the Spinola family.
During the Second World War period it becomes a living
centre of the partisan Resistence, equipped with a hospital
in the Tassarello Palace, facing the central aquadre of the
village even today. Once civilian people and wounded partisan,
fascists and Germans cured. Today the grand Spinola Palace
is partly the seat of the municipality, but also the Museum
of Resistence and social life, dedicated to the memory
of Gian Battista Lazagna, is here placed. Furthermore the
Palace is an important location for localand non local artists
exhibitions, concerts and conventions, with the possibility to
give hospitality to groups and associations in the guest-rooms
of the Palace.
From the small village of Rocchetta some tracks radiate. You
can follow them on foot, by mountain bike or with the horse
and they cover different degrees of difficulty and experience,
from thr beginners to the professional, but always immersed
in that pacific and uncontaminated nature which marks this
landscape. Some of the signed tracks form some circles in
the communal territory, other ones can reach and become a
part of larger pathways in the Mountain Community. You con
choose guided trails with expert guides on request and you will
be welcome in the farms and the craftsmen’ laboratories.
For more information about guided tours you can address to:
Municipality
of
Rocchetta
Ligure/Palazzo
Spinola
+39.0143.90004
[email protected] – [email protected]
or the tourist info of the Mountain Community – Vignole
Borbera +39.0143.630026 – [email protected]
CLUB ALPINO ITALIANO
Via F. Cavallotti 65/A
15067 NOVI LIGURE (AL)
Tel./Fax +39 0143.2510
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cainoviligure.it
Sezione di Novi Ligure
Fondata nel 1960
Via Umbeto I, 35
15060 CANTALUPO LIGURE (AL)
Tel. +39 0143.90954/90960
Fax +39 0143.90951
E-mail: protocollo.valborbera
@reteunitaria.piemonte.it
www.valborberaespinti.it
Ufficio Turistico:
Rocchetta Ligure
Via Martiri della Benedicta
15060 VIGNOLE BORBERA (AL)
Tel./Fax 0143.630026
E-mail: [email protected]
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TRACKS AND NATURE
Sede:
Sezione di Novi Ligure
260
255a
255
The Poggio
Comune di
Rocchetta Ligure
LOGISTICS
BY CAR
Highway n° A7 Milan-Genoa
Highway exit Vignole Borbera-Arquata Scrivia
SP 140 of the Borbera Valley to Rochetta Ligure (17 km)
Squadre Sports Area-locality called “Frain”
BY TRAIN Railway line Turin-Genoa or Milan-Genoa
+ BUS
Arquata Scrivia station
Bus line Val Borbera
(tel. +39. 0143.919561
E-mail: [email protected])
Line Arquata Scrivia–Rocchetta Ligure
TRAIL’S FEATURES
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Departing point: Rocchetta Ligure (390 mt)
Arriving point: Pagliaro Inferiore (420 mt)
Signpost: N° 269 - 260 – 255a - 255
Uphill gradient: 525mt
Downhill gradient: 525 mt
Journey time: 3,45 h
Difficulty: EE
Suggested period: March-November
Clothing: Normal biking wea
CARTOGRAPHY
• CTR raster 1:50.000 – Region of Piemont - Cartography
Sector – Authorization n° 16/2005, 10/12/2005
(reptoduction forbidden)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• E. Montagna, A. Sabbadini – Appennino Ligure
CAI Sezione Ligure, Genova 1974
• D. Calcagno, M. Cavana, V. Moratti
I segni del Tempo. Tracce di storia e arte
nelle Valli Borbera e Spinti (Vol. I e II)
Lions Club Borghetto Valli Borbera e Spinti,
2003-2004.
• AA.VV. – Novi 40 anni di Club Alpino Italiano
1960-2000.
CAI Sezione di Novi Ligure, 1999.
OTHER TRAILS
• Trail N° 256 Selletta del M. Cravasana–Avi–Sella di Avi (h 1,15)
Difficulty degree: E
• Trail N° 260 Pertuso-Roccaforte Ligure (h 4,00)
Difficulty degree: E
ITINERARY DESCRIPTION
From the sports area aquadre, locality called Frain of
Rocchetta Ligure (390 mt) you cross thr Sisola stream
(there are no bridges or footbridges), once on the other
side you walk along the stream for 100 meters and then
you go through the small wood which precedes the wall
made of puddinga (from the English word pudding, is a
sort of compound of different rocks). Once got oversome
particularty exposed parts (fixed ropes) you walk towards
the right side and by some steep slopes you reach the
Costone La Ripa (h 1,30-1,30) where the N° 260 PertusoRoccaforte Ligure passes. By reaching this one, you go on
towards Roccaforte Ligure. After some uphill and downhill
one the Costone La Ripa you reach the M. Cravasana (870
mt) where you meet the first variant directed to Pagliaro
Inferiore, signal N° 255b. going down the pathway in the
wood, you reach the Selletta of the M. Cravasana (818 mt)
where the tracks towaeds the adandoned village of Avi (on
the right signal N° 256) and to Pagliaro Inferiore in the
Sisola Valley (on the left signal N° 255) start from: The
path goes up in the wood to the Poggio (853 mt) (h 0,452,15) where a small wood shelter is placed just under the
top. Once leaving the N° 260 you turn to the left side and
start to walk down following the path N° 255a. the rocky
track goes down through some buttresses covered dy oaks
and chestnuts, towards some ridges with rare vegetation.
A beautiful panoramic view on the Borbera Valley opens
in front of you. The trail descends between some thyme
shrubs and reaches the pathway N° 255 which allows to
reach again descends between some thyme shrubs and
reaches the pathway N° 255 which allows to reach again
the stream Sisola by a steep descent, even in this case
there are nor bridges or footbridges and by going through
it you reach Pagliaro Inferiore (420 mt) (h 0,50-3,05).
Following the exposed river-bed or the SP 145 you go bak
to Rocchetta Ligure (390 mt) (h 0,40-3,45).
Papilio on Thyme