Panoramic hike in the woods of Stresa facing Lake Maggiore

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.

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