ロヴァゼンダの天然記念物・トップ11

great view from various points

A rare beauty of erosion, a wild and solitary place a stone's throw from civilization, easily accessible by bike or on foot (about 2km) from the Sp Castelletto Cervo – Cossato.

Super trail and terrain, drains immediately and grip always at the top!

The Lame del Sesia park extends over an area of approximately 900 hectares along a stretch of almost 8 kilometers of the Sesia river, located between the provinces of Novara and Vercelli. The river environment, enriched by blades, meanders, bodies of water, woods, gravels and sands, constitutes an important natural oasis in stark contrast to the surrounding landscape characterized by rice monoculture.

interesting geological formations gullies overhanging the Cervo stream

The Rive Rosse are located in the eastern part of the Biellese. The unusual landscape, from the Strona di Vallemosso Valley and through Masserano to Curino, is due to two of its geological peculiarities. Part of it is made up of hundreds of millions of years old granite formed in the subsoil of an old Paleo-African continent that was at the height of the Equator and which was "pushed" towards present-day Europe. The other part is made up of huge lava flows that have completely covered the territory that would have become a part of eastern Biella after being submerged by primordial oceans and later "exhumed" during the uplift of the Alps about forty million years ago. . These rocks have an orange-reddish color: and are called "Rive Rosse". If we also add up the strong erosion, which has been going on for several hundreds of thousands of years and which has transformed many slopes into deposits of large quantities of sand (there is even a church dedicated to the Madonna del Sabbione), it is understandable why the landscape takes on different aspects so unreal almost ... Martians! http://www.mtbriverosse.it/joo/le-rive-rosse

The use is possible throughout the year, both on equipped and self-guided routes, and with specific educational activities. It is also possible to visit the ornithological museum, at the headquarters. http://www.parks.it/parco.lame.sesia/par.php

These red-yellowish gullies make the path along the Cervo stream look like a sort of Biella Grand Canyon.