オーリゴの絶景の山頂・トップ19

There's something mystical about Mount Faudo: a trail of ancient stories, far back in time. Today, it's best known for the marathon trail that climbs from Imperia to its summit and for the antennas dotting it; yet for centuries, it was a contested land between the church, neighboring states, and the villages on its slopes. Since the ancient Ligurians, well before the Romans. It shares this burden with Mount Follia and Mount Sette Fontane. The oldest evidence of human settlement in the Dolcedo area is near Mount Follia, a conical peak on the southern slope of Mount Faudo. Traces of metalworking have emerged there, with furnaces and residential structures, dating back to the Iron Age castellari, fortifications placed high up for observation and defense, in visual contact with other castellari in the area. Today, the site is abandoned: one can still walk and imagine the defensive landscape of the ancient Ligurians.

The summit cross that crowns Monte FAUDO loses its effect as the crowning glory of the mountain due to its immediate surroundings: This mountain peak is obviously also a radio station, because antenna masts in the immediate vicinity tower significantly above the summit cross and unfortunately deprive this small sacred monument of its visual impact.

Monte Faudo, a word that seems to derive from the Arabic word "faud" or lighthouse, which the Saracens would have installed on the top of the mountain considering that, from that height, the view embraces a vast extension of the territory. The massif of Mount Faudo has always represented in ancient times a center around which relationships took place between the Ligurians of the Taggia valley (of Taggia) with those of the Imperia valleys; it is easily accessible from Taggia, from Badalucco, from Montalto, from Boscomare, from Pietrabruna, from Tavole, from Valloria.

Climb on a well pedaled dirt road

Well pedaled dirt climb with beautiful views of the sea

Arriving at the summit of Monte Follia, the hiker will also find a beautiful summit cross that crowns the mountain. They are often massive wooden crosses, but the builders designed this one very differently. It is made of iron or steel, and decorative ornaments are incorporated between the outlines of the longitudinal and transverse beams, which characterize the shape of the cross, as well as on the four outer corners of the crossing point.

Beautiful dirt trail with beautiful panoramic views.

Monte Faudo (1151 m) is a beautiful dome-shaped mountain that rises a short distance from the sea, overlooking the Ligurian Riviera.