ITINERARY: BRACCIALE – TORRE BASTIA – DOLMEN – MULINO FENICIO – SAN MARTINO – VEREZZI – SAN MARTINO – BRACCIALE
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, for about 350 m. Then, you turn right to the SP490 until the roundabout in Finalborgo. You take the second way out going straight to the SP490 until you arrive to the square of Gorra. Here you have to do a turnabout and take the narrow and uphill street on your right called “Via Bracciale”. You drive about 1,2 km as far as you reach an open space where you can park.
Duration: 2 hours Length: 5,5 km Elevation gain: 135 m
The track is wide and and easily walkable.
Starting from the car parking space, you cross the following bend taking the mostly unpaved road on the left. You walk uphill for about 600 m, overstepping vineyards and then entering the woods. Here, on your right, start a narrow but signaled track directed to the “Torre Bastia”.
Trail mark: red rhombus (supported occasionally by a red circle)
The tower rises not far away from the deviation, 321 m above sea level. It was built by Enrico II del Carretto in early XIII century and it was meant as a tower of sighting over the lands of “Verezzi, Gorra, Olle, Borgio and Pietra”.
Back to the main trail you will find, at a certain point, a chain blocking the cars. You cross it. A little after it you will reach a fork: you keep going straight through the “Sentiero Geologico” (SG, yellow mark).
Trail mark: red rhombus and yellow mark (SG)
It starts now an apparently flat ground stretch, deep in to the Mediterranean scrub, where a little dolmen rises, revealed by a signal. It probably was once an astronomical observation point (Neolithic).
Proceeding along the main trail you ignore a first deviation and you keep following the “Sentiero Geologico” until it meets the “Sentiero Naturalistico” (SN – green mark), on its left. This is the trail you have to follow now on.
Trail Mark: red circle and green mark (SN)
After 200 m walking along the “Sentiero Naturalistico”, you will find the old cross (Built with Verezzi’s stone) and the ancient Phoenician Mill. Here you can have a beautiful view all over the four Verezzi’s communities: Crosa, Roccaro, Piazza, Poggio.
Carrying on, you will finally reach the San Martino’s Church where our trail ends. The landscape offered by this place is one of the best of all. If you keep following the cobblestones made trail that goes downhill on the right (looking the sea), you will also reach the hamlet of Crosa. Overstepping it, you will reach, in the end, the principal Verezzi’s hamlet: “Piazza”.
Turn around and follow back your steps to get back to the starting point and the car.
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