ITINERARY: BORGIO – “CARRI MATTI’S TRAL, CM” – SAN MARTINO’S CHURCH– “CULTURA’S TRAIL SC” – “CENTO CORDE”’S CLIFF AND PIT – OLD CAVE – BORGIO
By car (from Finale Ligure’s train station FF SS): 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. You go beyond the tunnel and the straight road between Finale Ligure and Borgio until you reach a traffic light by a railway crossing. You turn right, crossing the rails and then you turn right again through “Via Verezzi” driving about 150 m. You take now, again, the road on your right side “Via della Cornice” traveling for 500 m until you reach an unpaved road. Here you can park your car. (Drive back until the city center if no car parking is available).
Total length of the car route: 3,6 Km
In its entirety, this trail initially develops itself in NW direction, turning to S/SE fulfilling a panoramic loop.
Duration: 2 hours Length: 4,4 Km Elevation gain: 222 m
Trail mark: “Sentiero Natura – SN” supported by a red circle.
The trail is well signaled, large and uphill
You walk through the unpaved road for about 450 m until you reach a wide crossroad. You take the ascending trail on the left (pointed out as “SN”) proceeding for 300 m in a panoramic area over the see. Here you meet another fork: you keep going to the right joining the “Carri Matti’s trail”. (This last fork is the connection point with the return trip).
Trail mark: “Sentiero Natura – SN” sided by “Sentiero dei Carri Matti – CM”
This part of the trail is well signaled and easily walkable. Uphill in the first part.
The ascending part keeps going until you reach an open space where you can enjoy a great view over Mount “Caprazoppa”, the surrounding hills and the see. In this area is also possible to see the famous “Verezzi’s stone”, a kind of rock decorated by fossilized organisms (dated back to Miocene, 20 Million years ago).
You start now a long trail in to the woods (700 m ) ending to the Church of San Martino in Verezzi. The landscape is fantastic.
Here starts the second part of our trail.
Trail mark: “Sentiero Cultura – SC”
The trail is well signaled. Downhill.
Side by side with the trail where we have just come from starts the new trail, almost 1 km long, that descends the ridge to reach the “Old Cave” (Vecchia Cava).
Keep the left at the fork you will soon meet.
During this spectacular panoramic descent you can reach, just a few meters from the trail, the “Cento Corde’s Cliff”, a climbing area, and the “Cento corde’s Pit”, the narrow entrance of a bigger cavity that needs necessarily some equipment to be reached.
Back to the main way, you finally arrive to the “Old Cave” where is easy to find the signals to the way back to the car.
Trail mark: “Sentiero Natura – SN” and “Sentiero dei Carri Matti – CM”
The trail keeps going down for 300 m until you reach the connection point we talked about before. You keep going downhill until you reach the starting point of the itinerary.
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