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Road surrounded by greenery, almost no traffic.

Route with roads that are passable even with little experience. (Easy)

Beautiful, pleasant and relaxing excursion even in the fog.

unmissable panorama

Road closed from both sides

The Novi Ligure-Ovada tramway was a tramway line inaugurated in 1881 and closed in 1953. Behind the old station is the confluence of the Orba and Stura rivers. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranvia_Novi_Ligure-Ovada

The castle built on a 13th century fortification - is accessed via a steep climb starting from the small square where the ancient municipal building with loggia stood. Enfeoffed to the Doria family between the 14th and 16th centuries, the castle saw the succession of many families: Da Passano, Pallavicino, Serra, Spinola and Orsini Pio di Savoia. The guise in which it appears today dates back to the 18th century, when it was adapted by the Serra family into an elegant country residence. The castle, owned by the Doria family of Montaldeo since the beginning of the 19th century, has a complex structure in which the original structures survive, vestiges of previous use: the apparatus protruding on double brackets, the battlements and the configuration of the keep. One of the towers, which became an artist's studio in the last century and overlooks the surrounding landscape with large windows, offers a priceless view that sweeps over the Alpine chain, from Monviso to Monte Rosa, and over the Apennines, up to the Piacenza mountains

intersection between different routes, all interesting and almost all accessible; clockwise: north (left in the photo) towards the valley of the sources of S.Rocco and then of S.Limbana di Castelletto d'Orba; east towards the dirt road that passes next to the ancient Albarola tower and then goes towards Mornese/Casaleggio Boiro; after a few meters of this a detour to the left leads, among the new Tacchino vineyards, to the ridge that leads to the Bozzolina village, but it is almost always blocked by an impassable gate; south towards Lerma; to the west - where the photo was taken from - the Costa road towards Silvano d'Orba.