18 - Marradi - Lago di Ponte
This easy stage moves towards the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi.
- Trail Conditions: On foot
- Departure: Marradi (328m)
- Arrival: Lago di Ponte (627m)
- Duration: 6 hour/s
- Length: 15.9 km
- Difference in height: Uphill 980m - Downhill 680m
- Accomodation structures: Rifugio Casa Ponte, Agriturismo Badia della Valle
In Marradi town-centre, one passes beneath an arch and, in front of the Badia del Borgo, starts to go up the ridge. The landscape is typical of the Romagna mid Apennines: narrow valleys between layered ridges, chestnut woods and coppice, ruins of houses and abandoned fields. The route is scenic and later on enters the valley of the Acerreta, where the woods thicken, and then goes downhill, reaching the charming Eremo di Gamogna (793 m), founded by St. Peter Damian in the mid-eleventh century. This complex was recently renovated and includes a nice little Romanesque church with a dome vault belfry and a large build- ing around the cloister. From the little cemetery one goes downhill to the bottom of the valley, touching the Ponte della Valle and going up the opposite side, until reaching the edifices of Trebbana, another ancient monastic center whose church (which we today see in its eighteenth-century form) is the only surviving part. One of the biggest oaks in Romagna is just a few minutes' walk away. Then, after reaching the ridge between the valleys of the Acerreta and of the Tramazzo, one heads south, bypassing Mount Caibano and touching Mount del Cerro. Soon after, one descends into the valley of Tramazzo, passing the road that goes up to the hill of the same name, and quickly arriving at the shores of Lake di Ponte, a small reservoir which is placed in a natural context dominated by forests, and is the extreme northern edge of the National Park.
Further information18 lap of: Alta Via dei Parchi
Accommodation: Rifugio Casa Ponte, Agriturismo Badia della Valle
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