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Track details

Distance

7.7km

Duration

2h 45min

Ascent

512m

Descent

507m

Starting altitude

792m

Arrival altitude

797m

Lowest point

781m

Highest point

1153m

Berto's mill

The functions of the mill are intact and a refreshment is open in the rooms accessible from the roadside. Excellent products based on chestnuts, to embellish the mountain style home cooking

Tree with the eyes

In this place the florentine writer Tiziano Terzani used to come often: here, in an absolutely panoramic position and by an old nice cherry tree, pinched a couple of ceramic eyes to teach to his son initially that “the tree and everything else around is belonging to a marvellous life made up of beings” and therefore needs respect.

Those eyes are still there and now, around them, other items such as bracelets, necklaces, stripes of buddhist flags were left by those many anonimous that came here after like a sort of pilgrimage

Charcoal makers hut

It was built by truncks walls) and branches (roof) of woods found in the neighborhoods. Everything was then covered by fresh soil and grass. Its dimensions were in function of the number of men and the extension of the wood to be cut. Insideit was very basic, with 3 elements:

  • rudimentary beds
  • fireplace
  • stones to be used to sharpen the sickles