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WARNING: trekking is not like walking! If you can't overcome a passage, go back!
Some of the tracks presented here are set along mountain trails where some passages may require holding to ropes or climbing short ladders, and may have exposed passages without safety protections. These tracts can be a serious danger if faced without the right equipment, awareness and physical condition.
ITINERARIUM® has no responsibility regarding the tracks presented here, their dangerousness, accessibility, praticability and safety. Who decides to take these tracks does it at their own risk.

Panoramic hike between Stresa and Carpugnino

The woods facing Gulf Borromeo and Lake Maggiore

Lake Maggiore

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Length:
10.7 Km

Our time:
3h30' walking

Total climb:
520 mt

Min and max height:
215 mt - 545 mt

Type of track:
ring track

Surface:
trail - asphalt

Panorama:
woods - lake

Cell network coverage:
excellent

Traced in winter:
yes

Traced by bike:
no

The itinerary is characterized by the alternation of chestnut woods, beechwoods, pine groves and wide views on Gulf Borromeo and Lake Maggiore. The trail crosses the towns of Carpugnino, Stropino, Brisino, Vedasco and goes down towards Stresa to climb up along the slopes of Mottarone, parallel to Fiumetta creek, and reaches Vezzo di Gignese.

The articulated and heterogeneous itinerary crosses the places that were the Lands of Lepontii, an ancient Celtic, or Ligurian, population, which settled across the western Alps around 1000 B.C. Their main city was named Oscela, today’s Domodossola.

It was 1975 when, during the digging for a house, some serizzo slabs were found, placed to form a rectangle. Those were ancient funerary steles used for other purposes, but strongly resembling the steles found in Levo, hence dating back to I century B.C., that is the time when the Romans inhabited these lands.

WARNING: the trail VL5 is currently (April 23rd) unusable. In order to reach Vezzo we suggest to follow the ancient mule track Stresa-Vezzo, from via Salvelunga Stresa.

Traveled on: Mar 21st, 2021