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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.
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Panoramic hike in the woods of Stresa facing Lake Maggiore

From Magognino to the Rocul of Lesa

Lake Maggiore

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Length:
5 Km

Our time:
1h30' walking

Total climb:
310 mt

Min and max height:
365 mt - 570 mt

Type of track:
ring track

Surface:
trail - mule track

Panorama:
woods - lake

Cell network coverage:
excellent

Traced in winter:
yes

Traced by bike:
no

The itinerary develops along ancient mule tracks, halfway up the hills facing the basin of Lake Maggiore, between the towns of Stresa and Belgirate. The trail crosses small towns, woods, terraced slopes and historic traces that testify the importance of these lands already in pre-Christian age.

The articulated and panoramic 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. In Magognino, during a dig in the 30s, some tombs were found, covered with stone slabs similar to those found half a century before in Levo, and dating back to the Lepontii. The trail reaches the church of Sant’Albino with its peculiar steeple and eventually the remains of Rocul (roccolo): a two stories building, usually set on a hill, surrounded in half circle by trees or pergolas on which nets were set to capture the birds.

Traveled on: Feb 2nd, 2023