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Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to the Laghi Gemelli hut

Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to Fratelli Calvi da Carona hut

Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to Fratelli Longo da Carona

Foppolo (15Km)Fun for the whole family: Winter and Spring

Bellano (22Km)The Horrid of Bellano

Roncola (24,6Km)Excursion to Monte Linzone from Roncola S. Bernardo

Cadenabbia (26,6Km)Konrad Adenauer Academy

Griante (26,6Km)San Martin Catholic Church at Griante Cadenabbia

Griante (26,6Km)Griante Cadenabbia, Lake Como

Tremezzo (28Km)Villa Carlotta Gardens, between Cadenabbia and Tremezzo

Excursion to the Laghi Gemelli hut

Lakes Gemini

The basin of the Lakes Gemelli Refuge is one of the most romantic and relaxing places in the Bergamo mountains, primarily due to the presence of numerous artificial lakes, large and small, now part an integral part of the environment and the landscape.

During the excursion we are about to describe, including also the Carona lake at the start, you can observe as many as four, and a fifth — Lake Colombo — is located just over twenty minutes walk from the hut. It is no coincidence, therefore, the area is among the busiest in the province, despite the relative length of the climb, which in any case requires a certain degree of training.

From the town of Carona, in the upper Brembana Valley (52 kilometers from Bergamo) it is possible to park on the southern shore of the artificial pond, reachable along the top of the dam: altitude 1096 meters.
We then start to walk a comfortable and unmistakable mule track that, with countless bends, goes up the side of the valley, immersed in a thick and refreshing forest.
After about two hours of walking, now almost near the forest limit, you reach the small dam of Lake Marcio, at 1841 meters above sea level: the barrier, completed in 1925, is 18 meters, and the basin contains 850,000 cubic meters of water.
The mule track continues slowly along the western shore of the lake, until it reaches its southern end, where among other things comes the ENEL service cable car, which also starts from Carona. And a few meters lower here is another lake unexpected, decidedly larger: Lago delle Casere, an altitude of 1784 meters, containing 2,470,000 cubic meters of water, held by a dam completed in 1946 and 47 high meters.
The return takes place along the same path as the climb and takes about 2 hours.
The refuge, which has 70 beds, is located a few meters from the dam of the Gemelli Lakes: a curious name to remind us that before the erection of the barrier, completed in 1932 and 39 meters high, in This grassland were two small ponds rounded and side by side, precisely “twins”. Today, on the other hand, the invaded contains as many as 6,990,000 cubic meters of water.

Technical sheet:
Travel time: 4.30 hours
Starting altitude: 1096 m
Elevation gain: 872
Difficulty: T-Tourist
Recommended period: May - October

Region: Lombardy
Province: Bergamo
Valle/area: Valle Brembana

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scritto da Christopher Clayton - ultima modifica il 21/02/2020

Excursion to Fratelli Calvi da Carona hut

The climb to the Fratelli Calv i Hut, one of the best known in the province, can rightly constitute the first approach to high mountains, both for newbies and children. The trip can be said to be entirely elementary, classified as level T, moreover gratified by a natural environment of first magnitude. The basin of the refuge, dotted with large and small lakes, natural and artificial, is surrounded by an uninterrupted circle of peaks, at a glance of great effect and suggestion. Particularly spectacular is the Tenda Devil's Lace, defined for its regular and unmistakable pyramid shape the “Orobie Matterhorn”.

The trip takes place largely on a comfortable dirt road serving the hydroelectric plants in the area, and is therefore also very suitable for mountain biking. In addition, in certain seasonal periods and time slots, the road is open to private vehicle traffic, even if it requires the utmost attention and prudence: it is therefore essential to ask for information detailed on site on the actual viability.

From the town of Carona, in the upper Brembana Valley (1116 meters altitude, 52 kilometers from Bergamo) you start to follow the steep dirt road that you can forward into the valley, cloaked with suggestive forests. After passing the ancient and rustic village of Pagliari, you will arrive at the spectacular waterfall of Val Sambuzza, which precipitates loud and bubbly at the side of the road.
Continue along the road again, reaching a crossroads at a pond, now beyond the forest: Lake Prato, at an altitude of 1650 meters.

Neglecting the road on the left, which leads to the Longo Hut, you must continue straight, sometimes steeply, up to the base of the powerful lake dam Fregabolgia, of the massive gravity type, 63 meters high and completed in 1953. Once you reach the top of the barrier, continue along the road that runs alongside the large artificial reservoir, containing at the highest level as many as 4,660,000 cubic meters of water. A few more minutes walk finally allow you to reach the clearly visible building of the Fratelli Calvi Hut: altitude 2015 meters, 3 hours from Carona.
The return takes place along the same path as the climb and takes about 2 hours.
The hut, opened in 1935 and completely renovated in the early 1980s, has 85 beds.

Technical sheet:
The telephone number of the Calvi Refuge: 0345.77,047
Contact details of CAI Bergamo, owner of the hut: tel 035.24.42.73;

Travel time: 5 hours Starting altitude: m. 1116 Difference

in altitude: m. about 900
Difficulty: T - Tourist
Recommended period: May - November

Region: Lombardy
Province: & amp; nbsp; Bergamo
Valle/Zone: Valle Brembana

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scritto da Andrew Russell - ultima modifica il 20/08/2019

Excursion to Fratelli Longo da Carona

Lombardy, Bergamo, Refuge Brothers Longo

Despite the extreme ease of access, the Fratelli Longo Hut is much less frequented than the other refuges in the area, probably due to the fact of being, even at equal altitude, in a far more alpine, lonely, unsuitable for children, almost perched on the steep slopes that close the austere and slightly gloomy Valle del Monte Sasso.

The trip takes place entirely on a comfortable dirt road, wide and regular in the first section, narrower and more uneven in the second part. In addition, in certain seasonal periods and time slots, the first stretch of the road (up to the junction of Lake Prato) is open to private vehicle traffic, even if it requires the utmost attention and prudence: it is therefore essential to ask for detailed information on the spot on the actual viability.
From the town of Carona, in the upper Brembana Valley (altitude 1116 meters, 52 kilometers from Bergamo) you start to follow the steep dirt road that leads into the valley, cloaked with suggestive forests. After passing the ancient and rustic village of Pagliari, you will arrive at the spectacular waterfall of Val Sambuzza, which precipitates loud and bubbly at the side of the road.
Continue along the road again, reaching a crossroads at a pond, now beyond the forest: Lake Prato, at an altitude of 1650 meters.
The journey continues taking the steep road on the left, which with some hairpin bends quickly gains altitude. Then the route becomes more smooth and linear, until you reach the head of the valley, where the small building of the Fratelli Longo Hut is clearly visible: altitude of 2026 meters, 3 hours from Carona.
The return takes place along the same path as the climb and takes about 2 hours.
From the hut, inaugurated in 1923, we recommend that you continue briefly along the mule track (about 15 minutes) until you reach the above Lake Devil (altitude 2141 meters), at the base of the powerful rock face of Monte Aga, in a severe and suggestive high mountain environment. Although smaller in size, the lake already existed before the dam was erected, completed in 1932 and 26 meters high, which created a basin containing 2,560,000 cubic meters of water.
A little upstream of the junction of Lake Prato you can also notice the obvious entrance of an abandoned mine, reminding us how these mountains were exploited for mining purposes since times. more remote.

Technical sheet:
Travel time: 5 hours
Starting altitude: 1116 m
Elevation gain: m. 910
Difficulty: T -Tourist
Recommended period: May - November

Region: Lombardy
Province: Bergamo
Valle/area: Valle Brembana

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scritto da Mark Dutton - ultima modifica il 05/09/2021

Excursion to Monte Linzone from Roncola S. Bernardo

Mount Linzone

Excursion as easy as profitable, especially from a panoramic aspect. The coastal of Monte Linzone is in fact the first significant elevation of the Orobic prealps, with its sweet and verdant summit dome overlooking the underlying Bergamo plain, a thousand meters lower. The trip is feasible almost all year round, except in the case of heavy snowfalls, however rare now.

From the town of Roncola San Bernardo, one of the most famous tourist resorts in the province (20 kilometers from Bergamo, altitude 858 meters), you start to follow the steep paved road that leads to the cemetery. Continue straight, until beyond the end of the road, entering a comfortable signposted path. Having come out of the woods, and passed a wavy lawn with a large cabin, the most strenuous stretch of the trip begins: a wide but steep rocky and gravel channel, which requires a minimum of caution. At its end, you reach the spectacular ridge of the mountain, where the view opens onto the Imagna Valley below and the entire Orobie chain in the background.

Now bending to the left, continue along the easy and undulating summit ridge, until you reach the wide grassy dome of the summit, on which is placed a large iron cross: Monte Linzone, altitude 1392 meters, 1.30 hours from the start. The return takes place along the route followed uphill, and takes about an hour.

The panorama is of those who are not easily forgotten, and it is rightly famous: the Val San Martino, which sinks for a thousand meters below us, the entire Po Valley, closed by the nuanced chain of the Apennines; on the opposite side the Imagna Valley lying at our feet, with the Orobie chain in the background, in a succession as far as the eye can see valleys and peaks.
By completing the excursion in the months of May and June, it will also be possible to admire in all its beauty the flowering of daffodils: a bloom so extraordinary to the point that, until the 1960s, on these meadows took place the traditional as indispensable “narcisata”, a sort of race for those who collected the biggest and most beautiful decks. According to chronicles of the time, on May 1, 1960, something like twenty thousand people counted on the meadows of Roncola San Bernardo! If we think that, at the time, the access road was not yet paved — it would have been only three years later, in 1963 — we can understand how popular this real “party of spring.”

Data sheet
Travel time: 2.30 hours Starting altitude: m. 858 Difference

in height: m. 534
Difficulty: T — Tourist
Recommended period: All year round, in the absence of snow
Region: Lombardy
Province: < /strong > Bergamo
Valle/area: hill

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scritto da Ali Mustafa - ultima modifica il 29/10/2019

Konrad Adenauer Academy

One of the most beautiful lakes of Europe, scenic landscapes of Lago di Como - Cadenabbia, Italy

Villa La Collina is the former summer residence of the first German chancellor Konrad Adenauers at Lake Como. The historic Villa and the modern Accademia Konrad Adenauer are located in one of his most beautiful and spectacular position overlooking the lake and the picturesque Bellagio. From 1959 to 1966 Konrad Adenauer spent his holidays in Villa La Collina 15 times in a row up to 8 weeks.

During these years Adenauer welcomed numerous important politicians and personalities of his time. Adenauer came to Lake Como by recommendation of his Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, whose family had its roots here. In the spring of 1957 Adenauer visited for the first time Cadenabbia, where he also learned boccia. Since then, he came almost every spring and late summer there. First years he was in the Villa Rosa, then in the Villa Arminio. Already during his first stay Adenauer discovered the Villa La Collina, which - as the name says - on a hill above the village sits. Villa La Collina is located away from the transit traffic, protected from curious eyes, and offers a fantastic view over the lake. In 1958 Adenauer asked the mayor of Griante for mediation to rent the villa for his next holidays. The mayor took up the matter, and the owner of the Villa La Collina, a French noble family, agreed - the Villa was their summer home which was used only rarely. Two months before the arrival of Adenauer work began in the fall of 1959, around the Villa to make it habitable again. Inside the Villa was more or less no interior.

Local hotels helped with furniture and even the town hall provided a desk. The temporary atmosphere inside was in contrast to the noble position of the villa. However, visitors described the interior of the villa as pretty uncomfortable. But this didn’t bother Adenauer and the villa became his second homefor several years. The mere presence of Adenauer in Cadenabbia was a media event.

Dozens of journalists, German and Italian were waiting outside the villa to get pictures of a relaxed, vacationing Chancellor and pick up crisp quotes. Adenauer loved the landscape, the mild climate, the easy friendliness of the locals and the rich flora.

scritto da Holiday in Glicine House - ultima modifica il 16/11/2021

Griante Cadenabbia, Lake Como

Villa Maria, monumental residence built in neo Renaissance style between 1889 and 1892 by the engineer Giacomo Mantegazza, Griante, Como Lake Italy.

A fragrant blend of art, relaxation and culture. Contemplation reigns here. A green and blue strip of water and lush vegetation in the shape of a forked tongue, Lake Como looks south towards the industrial heart of Northern Italy and Milan, its financial capital, and north to the almost always snow-capped peaks of the Swiss Alps of the Engadin in the Grisons Canton.

The area around the lake offers excellent tourist hospitality, especially in the central part known as “Tremezzina” or the “Riviera of the Azaleas” for the multicoloured blossoms that burst into flower at the beginning of spring.. Together with Cernobbio and Bellagio, it is in Griante Cadenabbia , one of the queens of the lake and a prestigious international tourist destination with its excellent hotels and the more familiar, intimate and exclusive residences scattered throughout the area, that beautiful geometric plantings forming elegant gardens and inspiring hymns to contemplation can be found.
Cadenabbia lies on the shore opposite Bellagio. Visited in the past by famous personalities such as Giuseppe Verdi and Konrad Adenauer, the German Chancellor, who regularly holidayed here at Villa La Collina , in the far off 19th century, Griante Cadenabbia also charmed the American writer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote: Cadenabbia I ask myself, Is this a dream? Will it all vanish into air? Is there a land of such supreme And perfect beauty anywhere?
Today, tourists from all over the world, Australians, Americans, North Europeans, Russians, Swiss and Canadians, and even some from the Arab Emirates, animate its lakeside, wander through the ancient village and climb up to the Sanctuary of San Martino perched high above. All on a voyage of discovery of an area made enchanting by colourful gardens, spectacular parks and sumptuous historic villas, full of the harmonious sounds of nature interrupted only by solemn, enveloping silence.

The beauty of the landscape has been preserved with complete respect for the environment. This is at the heart of its attraction. From Griante we start out on an imaginary tour to discover Villa Carlotta , Villa La Collina , United States Democratic Senator (currently Secretary of State ) from Massachussets John Kerry's Villa Maresi, Villa Melzi in Bellagio and Villa del Balbianello in Lenno, owned by the FAI, the Italian National Trust.

scritto da Holiday in Glicine House - ultima modifica il 16/11/2021

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HOTEL PEDRETTI

Branzi (13 Km) - Via Umberto I 23

e-mail www +39345/71121

HOTEL MAZZOLENI

Roncola (24 Km) - Piazza Marconi 5

e-mail www +3935/645654

GREM BIKE HOSTEL

Premolo (26 Km) - Via Dell'Agro 5

e-mail www +393386274085

Hotel Camoretti

Almenno San Bartolomeo (26 Km) - Via Camoretti, 2/A

e-mail www +3935550468

B&B Al Calicanto

Sorisole (28 Km) - Via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2/B

e-mail www +3935/576626

Art and culture

Museo dei Tasso e della Storia Postale

Camerata Cornello (11 Km)

The Museum of Tasso and Postal History is divided into four sections, where the documents of the postal activity of the Tasso family are kept as well as postal history in general. Great value piece is a letter franked with the famous Penny Black stamp.

Museo Etnografico Comunale

Premana (14 Km)

The Municipal Ethnographic Museum was built in 1974 by Gianola Battista. It is located within the rooms of the former villa Cazzamalli. The Museum exhibits a collection of objects of agro-pastoral culture and material and economic life. It is divided on three floors: on the ground floor there are documents and photographs, on the first floor is the Sala del Ferro, where materials made of iron are exhibited. On the second floor there is the agricultural room divided into three sections.

Museo Civico Storico ed Etnografico

Primaluna (12 Km)

The Civic Historical and Ethnographic Museum was founded in 1973 by the Municipality of Primaluna, with the aim of guarding and enhancing objects of various types used by their ancestors. The objects on display are among the most varied: from those used in everyday life to those that document the transition to industrialization of the different trades. Particular interest, they capture the objects used in the processing of iron.

Torre della Fontana

Averara (4 Km)

It is among the few monuments still visible in the town of Averara. The structure can be visited, although it is not in excellent condition because some parts have suffered damage also due to the passing of time.

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Barzio (10 Km)

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Barzio (10 Km)

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Pedesina (11 Km)

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Piazza Brembana (9 Km)

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Piazzolo (7 Km)

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Valleve (13 Km)

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Valnegra (10 Km)

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Albaredo Per San Marco (13 Km)

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Averara (4 Km)

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Barzio (10 Km)

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Camerata Cornello (12 Km)

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Cassiglio (4 Km)

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Cassina Valsassina (10 Km)

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Cremeno (10 Km)

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Introbio (10 Km)

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Isola di Fondra (13 Km)

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Lenna (9 Km)

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Mezzoldo (7 Km)

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Moggio (10 Km)

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Moio de'Calvi (10 Km)

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Olmo al Brembo (6 Km)

Visit Ornica - Tourism and travel tips for your vacation or weekend.

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Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to the Laghi Gemelli hut

Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to Fratelli Calvi da Carona hut

Carona (14,6Km)Excursion to Fratelli Longo da Carona

Foppolo (15Km)Fun for the whole family: Winter and Spring

Bellano (22Km)The Horrid of Bellano

Roncola (24,6Km)Excursion to Monte Linzone from Roncola S. Bernardo

Cadenabbia (26,6Km)Konrad Adenauer Academy

Griante (26,6Km)San Martin Catholic Church at Griante Cadenabbia

Griante (26,6Km)Griante Cadenabbia, Lake Como

Tremezzo (28Km)Villa Carlotta Gardens, between Cadenabbia and Tremezzo

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