ITINERARY: CALICE LIGURE – CIANASSI – BRIC DELLA CROCE (PEAK)
By car (from Finale Ligure’s train station FF SS) to “Park Chiazzari”: you take the first way out to the right in the roundabout, and you drive on the national road Aurelia (Strada Statale SS1), direction Ventimiglia, for about 350 m. Then, you turn right to the SP490 until the roundabout in Finalborgo. You take the first way out and then you turn left joining the SP17 towards “Calice Ligure”. Just after the playground, you turn right on the SP23 towards “Carbuta”. Just 150 meters later, you turn right again, joining the street “Via Dante Alighieri”. From now on, the street becomes more narrow. You overpass the Church and you stop to the graveyard parking area, where you can park.
Trail classification: trail of historic and geological interest
Level: Medium
Duration: 2 h Length: 4 Km Elevation gain: 290 m
Starting from the graveyard, you keep following the main paved road for other 800m before to find the real trail (there is only one junction, that you have to take, with the street “Via Olive”).
Trail mark: two red squares
The trail is well signaled and easily walkable.
The first stretch (450 m long) is very simple and it leads to the open space called “Cianassi”, a big crossing area of many different itineraries. There will be just only one fork (after the first 200 m ) where you will have to go left. In the open space “Cianassi” you can rest and prepare yourself for the next step.
Trail mark: three red balls sided by the signal VP (Via del Purchin) with red and white stripes
The trail is well signaled and goes uphill steeply.
Beyond the fountain, a narrow trail starts to climb the mountain to reach the peak of the “Rocca di Perti” (750 m long).
Just after the first 400 m, you are going to run into the little cave called “Grottino del Bric della Croce” and its homonym crag. After that, you will arrive to a fork: both trails lead to the peak, but we took the left one (the right hand side one will be our return way). During the trip it is also possible to glimpse at the remains of the ancient village called “Villaggio delle Anime” (8000 years old!!!).
Go right and then left at the next forks to finally reach the peak of the “Rocca di Perti”.
Just some meters beyond, another trail goes down to the open space “Cianassi” again. This will be our return way. Go always downhill to reach the initial crossroad that we mentioned before, and then the “Cianassi”.
Now you just have to walk back on the first stretch of the itinerary to get back to the car.
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