Accompanied by AlterEco Guides you will spend a day immersed in the nature of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in this area rich in naturalistic emergencies, geological features and botanical rarities.
You will walk along the Via dei Lombardi, an ancient paved historic road nestled in Sassalbo's centuries-old chestnut orchards. This trail will take you through ancient glaciers, peat bogs, glacial lakes and beech forests to the ancient Ospedalaccio Pass where there was once an Ospitale, which provided assistance and shelter to those crossing the Apennines. The trail will then descend to the Torbid Water Canal with accelerated erosion upstream and reach the pasture meadows of Camporaghena characterized by numerous sinkholes and exceptional blooms of daffodils and wild orchids that can only be seen in May. Finally, you will reach the village of Sassalbo again, skirting the wall of Triassic chalk outcrops from which the village derives its name.
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