Vor einer Tour informiere Dich immer über das Wetter!
*GPX-Tracks sind nicht getestet worden.
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.