Mtb itinerari Roccaf ING

ROCCAFORTE MONDOVI

km 19
Route: mixed (asphalt and dirt)
Gradients: 880 m.
Difficulty level: average

Start out from Roccaforte di Mondovi, follow the provincial road for Lurisia and after around 500 meters turn left onto Via Morà.
The itinerary leads to the village of the same name, turn left and take the cycle-lane, you pass several villages and after 4 km you reach Norea, turn right onto the provincial road, past the farmhouse after about 100 meters you reach a small clearing on right, from here slightly uphill a small road that leads to a bridge over the Rio San Grato, after passing it follow the dirt road and after a large bend at the junction turn left onto a street blocked to vehicular traffic by a barrier.

The dirt road climbs regularly and it is characterized by the votive pillars of the “Via Crucis”, at the second votive pillar (pillar of St. Anne), keep left and you reach the village of Prea.

It passes through the center of the village and you reach the church of the S.S. Trtinità and continue on to the square where the votive pillar is dedicated to St. Joseph, after the house to the right of the votive pillar, take a paved muletrack, Via San Giuseppe, came to a fork, keep left and climb to a bridge over the Rio Frassine.
The paved muletrack turns left and takes a hillside in the woods and after passing another votive pillar it connects the road that climbs from the village of Prea and then reach the shrine of St. Anna (1,100 meters).

From here proceed downhill along the asphalt road until the junction for Rastello, follow for this village and pass the stream Ellero, continue uphill to the first bend, from here turn left and take the old dirt road that leads to the village Pra Bertel, turn right and cross the village, the dirt road climbs to Baracco with some bends and come out in front of the church of S. San Antonio and S. Sebastian.
Turn left across the village to the north, after the last house on the left to continue in the same direction, goes down on the municipal road from Norea and after about 1 km of asphalt you reach the hotel Commercio and from here take the same road of the going to reach the starting point of Roccaforte.