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Itinerary for Enego's Fort Lisser

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Forte Lisser

Fort Lisser

The itinerary departing from the Tombal resort of Enego and arriving at Fort Lisser

ITINERARIO: Mount Lisser and the Honored Fort

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Degree of difficulty: Average
Positive difference: 350m
Maximum altitude: 1633m above sea level
Minimum altitude: 1260m above sea level
Length: 7.5km
Walking time: 4 hours
Means: on foot or with MTB

INTRODUCTION TO THE ROUTE FOR THE FORT AND MONTE LISSER

Mount Lisser is one of the last mountains located in the eastern part of the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities,and, dominating the eastern Valsugana and the Brenta Canal, on its summit, at the beginning of the last century, a fortress was built to protect the old state border. Remaining the inoperative structure during the so-called "war of the forts", it is the armored work today best preserved in the plateau. The aerial location of the place allows you to enjoy wide and spectacular views.

HOW TO GET TO THE STARTING POINT

The route to the top of Mount Lisser starts at Tombal,about 8 km from Enego towards Valmaron-Marcesina.

If you come from Asiago you continue in the direction of Enego and, shortly after Stoner resort, turn left following the directions to Marcesina: arriving at the Tombal Refuge you continue along the path CAI No. 865 that leads to the summit of Mount Lisser (1,633 m above sea level) and then to the fort of the same name. The estimated time from Asiago to the Refuge location Tombal is about. 35 minutes.

ROUTE TO MOUNT LISSER AND THE FORT

Starting from the parking lot of the shelter, where you can leave the car, you follow the dirt road of service to the fort, which detaches on the left and that in the first section is also marked with the signpost CAI No. 865. The route soon, ignoring the CAI signage indicating to climb to the right,enters into a slight falseplan for a couple of kilometers in the high-rise forest, through a shady piceo-begate.

vista panoramica dal forte lisser

After passing the forest section, always walking slightly uphill, you come close to the great pastures that surround the mountain: here are found in the spring several species of orchids that adorn the path that, after locality Làmbara,allows you to space with your eyes the great views that open to the south, with views of the below hamlet of Stoner and Mount Grappa.

In the following, after a closure, the presence of the typical stoan-platten confinements located further down the landscape is admired.

Continuing to rise in altitude it is easy to see some species of birds of prey (kestrel, buzzard, falcon, etc.), which on hot late spring and summer days patrol the area in search of prey. this is an area where it is also easy to spot roe deer or deer that at dusk come out of the thick of the woods.

Once you reach the ruins of the former barracks that housed the garrison of the fort, it deserves a stop at the next hairpin: from this point it becomes possible to see the entire northern mountain range of the Seven Municipalities, while to the west stands out the obvious massif of the Melettes.

Continuing the walk you then reach the summit. From up here you can admire one of the most beautiful views of the entire Plateau, with the view also opening north with the Marcesina Plain and the Cima Dodici-Ortigaramountain range.

Here a stop is also a must to visit the Fort Lisser,recently restored and open on certain days. Named by Emilio Lusso as the "Lion of the Plateau", it represents for architecture one of the most beautiful and best preserved fortresses of the Venetian and Trentino mountains.

Given a new look at the grandiose panorama that opens from the top of the mountain, you begin now to descend to the east side along the CAI Trail No. 865,steep in the first stretch, through the pastures with the gaze now pointing in the direction of the felt basin and the Mount Grappamassif.

grandioso panorama dall'itinerario escursione sul monte lisser

You can immediately see the place where the car was left, which is reached in about half an hour.

HISTORIC OVERVIEWS ON FORTE LISSER

Fort Lisser was built between late 1911 and 1914. The work was part of the Brenta-Cismon barrage and was tasked with closing access to Eastern Valsugana in the event of an enemy attack. However, given the distance from the front, such as the strong Fort Cima Lan and Forte Cima Campo, he was partly disarmed at the beginning of the conflict.

In May 1916, during the Frahjahrsoffensive, it was partially re-in-ared with batteries placed outside the work. On 2 June 1916, the fort's batteries (two domes were still armed), opened fire on the Imperial troops, the 27th Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of Bosnia – Herzegovina, who attacked the Melettes. The shots too short, as the eyewitness Emilio Lussu wrote in his memoir "A Year on the Plateau", hit the Italian lines.

escursione monte lisser vista

The Lisser Fort was damaged a few days later, on June 8, 1916, at 12:20 p.m., when it was hit by some 305 mm Thkoda blows.  With the end of the offensive and the withdrawal of Austro-Hungarian troops to more backward positions, the fort again found itself far from the front.

On November 13, 1917, during the second Battle of the Melettes,which was triggered by the events related to the break-up of the Isonzo (defeat of Caporetto), the fortress was occupied by the 3rd Battalion of the 81st Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment without finding any resistance as the Italians had abandoned it a few hours earlier. It remained in the hands of the imperials who used it as storage for ammunition and materials until the end of World War I.

After the war the fort was disbarred from the military and sold to private individuals, to be finally purchased in the 90s by the municipality of Enego that had it restored.

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