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Itinerary for Excursion on Monte Cengio

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Itinerario Monte CengioItineraries for excursions and walks: Itinerary - Excursion on Monte Cengio

INTRODUCTION TO THE ITINERARY FOR MONTE CENGIO

Among the peculiarities of the territory of the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni there is the importance from the historical point of view. The itinerary of Monte Cengio leads the hiker to visit one of the most spectacular and significant places of the First World War. The whole area is considered Sacred to the Fatherland

The route is ideal for those who want to combine an undemanding route with a visit to a place of high historical value, located in a position from which you can admire one of the most beautiful landscapes of the plateau.

ITINERARY: Excursion on Monte Cengio
 
Technical information
Degree of Difficulty: easy
Difference in altitude: 300 meters
Min elevation: 1.286 m asl
Max altitude: 1.348 m asl
Length: 6 Km (round trip)
Walking Time: 3/4h (tourist pace)
Means: on foot

The hike is considered easy, walkable even by inexperienced hikers. The first part of the route (access to the top through the so-called "grenadier") is not suitable for mountain bikes, which can still access the summit using the road.

It is necessary to be equipped with a flashlight given the numerous passages inside tunnels.

HOW TO GET TO THE STARTING POINT

The starting point of the trail is located at the Piazzale "Principe del Piemonte" at an altitude of 1286 m. The square is easily accessible by car via a paved road. For those who access the Asiago plateau coming from the Valdastico motorway (exit Piovene-Rocchette), following the signs for Asiago, along the SS 349 "Statale del Costo", the access road to Monte Cengio is located shortly after the end of the climb, near the inn "Ai Granatieri".

Monte Cengio

Those arriving from Asiago must instead follow the signs for Vicenza. A few kilometers after passing the village of Treschè Conca, you will find the inn "Ai Granatieri" on the right.

The road we will travel to get to the beginning of the path is a military rolling stock built during the First World War to allow troops and armaments access to the summit area of Monte Cengio starting from Val Canaglia, where there was a railway station that once allowed access to the plateau. To witness this origin along the way it is already possible to notice remains of barracks and tunnels.

THE ACCESS ROUTE TO MONTE CENGIO

Starting on foot after parking the car at Piazzale Principe di Piemonte we will take the dirt road that starts from the left of the square itself. To indicate the beginning of the route there are also billboards showing the main information on the place, installed as part of the "Ecomuseum of the Great War" project.Monte Cengio Panorama

The path we will take develops along the south-west side of the mountain massif, dug for long stretches in the living rock and in some places using tunnels. The function of this mule track, also called "grenadier", was to allow access to the summit area through a route protected from Austrian artillery fire (located to the north).
The trail develops for about 4 km, allowing you to reach the altitude 1347 of the summit. The difference in height of 150 m does not seem to be felt, as the numerous points of historical interest (trenches, tunnels, artillery positions, in addition to the famous jump of the grenadiers) allow pleasant stops and in case of hot days the passages in the tunnel allow you to cool off.
The view of the final part of the Astico Valley and the plain behind, which can be enjoyed throughout the journey, takes your breath away.

THE ARRIVAL POINT: MONTE CENGIO

After having traveled another impressive military work, the "Command Gallery", you come out in the so-called Piazzale Pennella (general who directed military operations from here) from which you can wander with your gaze over the entire central basin of the Asiago plateau and from where you can, along a last stretch of climb, access the summit area of the mountain (altitude 1347).
Cartina Itinerario Monte CengioOnce we have visited the top, we can take the return route following the military road that from Piazzale Pennella will take us to the church dedicated to the Grenadiers of Sardinia, the brigade that was placed to defend the mountain and that lost overall, together with the infantrymen of the Catanzaro, Novara, Pescara and Modena Brigades, among dead, 10,264 men were missing and wounded when the Austrian Imperial Army launched a massive attack as part of the Strafexpedition between 29 May and 3 June 1916, when they went wrong. The last act of the Grenadiers of Sardinia, reduced to the extreme, was heroic: desperate, in a furious hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army, many throw themselves down, clinging to the enemy, from the last remaining bulwark, a spur of rock suspended in the void, today known as "the jump of the Grenadier".

From here we can safely return to the starting point along the paved road that leads from Piazzale dei Granatieri to Piazzale Principe di Piemonte.

Profilo plano altimetrico Itinerario Monte Cengio

 

THE VIDEO OF THE EXCURSION ON MOUNT CENGIO

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