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PIANURE - SASS CORBÉE

This walk follows one of the 4 itineraries leading through the Park Val Sanagra. It will show you various features of the Val Sanagra: the wonderful natural setting, the many traces of traditional activities (mills, lime-pits, the furnace) and the rural settlement of Madri.





- starting point: Menaggio
- time from and back to Menaggio: 4.30 hrs
- ascent: 250 m
- trail signs: green
RouteFrom Piazza Garibaldi you pick up Via Calvi. At the end of it you cross the main road and you turn into Via Caronti, along the left side of the Parish church St.Stefano. At the end of the street turn right and after 30 m turn left into Via Castellino da Castello. This street leads to the upper part of the town where once the castle stood. It was destroyed in 1523 by the Signore delle Leghe Grigie . Above the ruins of the ancient castle you find the church S.Carlo (1614) The street then leads down to a road (Via N.Sauro) which you follow to the right. Pick up the path way on the right side of Hotel Loveno in order to cut off a bend. Back on the road follow it (to the left) another 30 m and at the next bend, pick up the street to the left (sign Pianure). You are now in the hamlet Loveno with its splendid villas. To begin with, on the left at the beginning of the street, there is Villa Bel Faggio and after 200 m you pass Villa Garovaglio now owned by the German Federal Republic which hosts the Association “Villa Vigoni Centro Italo – Tedesco” which organizes high level meetings. Villa Mylius Vigoni lies just behind Villa Garovaglio. The park can be visited on reservation every Thursday afternoon tel. 0344 361232. Having passed the baroque façade of the church San Lorenzo and the sport centre, you reach “Pianure”(also called Piamuro) a big pasture (40 min. from Menaggio). From Piamuro follow the cart track straight on for about 1 km till you reach the Chapel dell’Artus. The track from here leads down to river. Do not cross the bridge Nogara but follow the path on the right side of the river. You pass the ancient brick-furnace “Galli” and then reach “La Chioderia”, once a factory where nails were made, now a trout farm with a typical inn. Pick up the track on the right side of the trout farm and continue straight on to “Mulini”, a mill where not much time ago wheat and corn were ground. Cross the old stone bridge and pick up the path to the right which leads along the bank of the river to Sass Curbée. Here the passage of the river is obstructed by enormous boulders. Steps hewn in the rock make it possible to climb up the huge monolith and continue your way to an ancient lime-pit. After a stretch through the woods you arrive at the pasture of Madri. From here you turn back the same way you came or again at the lime-pit, you can pick up the trail which leads through the woods to hamlet of Barna You pass the quiet church square with its lovely fountain and then pick up the trail at the other side of town which leads back down to Piamuro.