Monte Colonna
This subalpine mountain is an ideal setting for various walks or BMX bike excursions, along tracks that are often easy, sometimes more challenging, but never excessively difficult.
An ideal starting-point for a hike up to Monte Colonna is the little church of San Martino, from where an unmetalled road leads towards Arcumeggia, before joining a rougher mule track.
However, the top of Monte Colonna (about 1,200 metres altitude) is not a long way away, and, before reaching the summit, the track runs through an old tunnel, part of the Cadorna Line built just before the First World War, in the light of a possible Austrian attack through what was then neutral territory.
This subalpine mountain, with its dense woodland creating superb landscapes, its rivers, waterfalls and springs, its erratics, and flora of striking beauty, is an ideal location for all sorts of excursions, with tracks that are often easy, sometimes more challenging, but never very difficult. Examples include the "three-saints circuit", a route linking Sant'Antonio, San Martino and San Michele.
For BMX bike enthusiasts, the route can be shortened by taking an unmetalled road that links San Michele to San Martino (at Val Alta), or by going direct from Arcumeggia, just before the junction for San Michele, taking the municipal road that brings you very close to the peak of San Martino before returning downhill towards the villages of Duno and Cuveglio.
An ideal starting-point for a hike up to Monte Colonna is the little church of San Martino, from where an unmetalled road leads towards Arcumeggia, before joining a rougher mule track.
However, the top of Monte Colonna (about 1,200 metres altitude) is not a long way away, and, before reaching the summit, the track runs through an old tunnel, part of the Cadorna Line built just before the First World War, in the light of a possible Austrian attack through what was then neutral territory.
This subalpine mountain, with its dense woodland creating superb landscapes, its rivers, waterfalls and springs, its erratics, and flora of striking beauty, is an ideal location for all sorts of excursions, with tracks that are often easy, sometimes more challenging, but never very difficult. Examples include the "three-saints circuit", a route linking Sant'Antonio, San Martino and San Michele.
For BMX bike enthusiasts, the route can be shortened by taking an unmetalled road that links San Michele to San Martino (at Val Alta), or by going direct from Arcumeggia, just before the junction for San Michele, taking the municipal road that brings you very close to the peak of San Martino before returning downhill towards the villages of Duno and Cuveglio.
