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Monviso, Italy

cover photo by Federico Isacchi

Location added by Enrico Chiavassa

The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator.

Rank : 9.8 (average on 8 votes)

Coordinates : 44.667585,7.091796 (Open in Google Maps)

Subjects : Monviso and all the valleys that surround it offer mountain views of the amazing and very different, both day and night. For animal lovers, there are numerous opportunities to meet from ibex, chamois, mouflon, marmotte.Nel the spring blooms drugs.

Recommended equipment : Wide Angle and Zoom standards tripod and polarizing filter and ND110 for landscapes. Wide bright, starry sky. Zoom pushed for animals. For lovers of flowers macro lenses.

Best months : The spring period is perhaps the best, for the colors, for the lakes in thaw, for the blooms. Pets are not yet risen to the highest pastures, so they are more easy to spot, especially the stambecchi.Il autumn warm colors gives extraordinary and fabulous sunsets. However, even with the snow there are wonderful occasions, despite the difficulties of transit such as Alevè Forest, the largest forest of stone pines in Europe, reached by an easy sentireo that starts from the village of Castle in the val Varaita to Bagnour the refuge (2017 m). Months in which nature is more opaque and dull are March and April.

How to get there : The Group of Monviso (Hautes Alpes) is located in the province of Cuneo, on the border with the region of Queyras French. The toll booths are more comfortable than those of Marene or Crmagnola, on the A6 Torino-Savona, from where you continue towards the town of Saluzzo. From here you can follow the Po valley, passing through Revello and Crissolo up to Pian del Re, where the river omonino (the largest and longest in Italy), where the Alpine Lodge Hotel Pian del Re (2020 m) . Saluzzo From you can also follow the Varaita Valley, passing through Verzuolo, Costigliole, Sampeyre, Castle, Chianale up to Col Agnel (2748 m). From Castle, following on the right Vallone Vallanta, we arrive at Vallanta Refuge (2450 m) at the foot of Monviso.

Visits : The places described are freely accessible, allowing snow in the winter months. E 'expected to pay a few Euros for parking the car on the plateau Pian del Re in the vicinity of the Lodge.

Notes : The name derives from the Latin Monviso "Vesulus, Vésulo" which means "visible", because of its perfect shape of a triangle that occupies the horizon, breaking out clearly from other points of the chain alpina.Noi that we live at his feet we can also admire daily from far away and we are deeply committed to the point that we respectfully called "The King of Stone", with the desire to be able to reach its summit at least once in their lives, even those who are not climbers ... and I assure you that it's worth it!

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