From Talosio, follow the paved road for about 500 m that takes to the Sanctuary of Prascondù 1321 m. Near the first hairpin bend take the mule track to the right that leads to the Sanctuary. From the Sanctuary, take the GTA/AVC trail which passes first behind the Balmot mountain huts and then Barlan 1474 m. Climb up pastures, always on the GTA/AVC trail, go around a turret rock formation (visible from the bottom) reaching Alpe del Roc 1812 m, continue uphill to Colle Crest 2040 m. From Colle Crest (2050 m) leave the Alta Via Canavesana and follow the trail which descends to the Vallone of Fatinaire, in Val Soana, cutting a steep and rugged slope, densely colonised by green alder. You move into an environment that contrasts sharply with the open and airy one of the slope towards Valle di Ribordone. The trail touches Alpe Sionei (1855 m), large alpine pastures among vast pastures. Having left the pastures, follow the steep ridges that descend from Punta del Sionei and from Costa Doccia towards the Vallone of Fattinaire, reaching the Borgata Combrat (1020 m), and a little further on, to Convento (905 m, hamlet of Ronco Canavese). From here, you reach Ronco following the carriageway downhill to the bridge, which you travel before climbing to Ronco main town, where there are accommodation facilities.

The parish church of Ronco Canavese, the ancient copper forge dating back to 1675 (village of Castellaro), an interesting building overlooking Valle di Servino: the fortified house called "Gran Betun", the Sanctuary of Crest and the Sanctuary of San Rocco (Ronco Canavese). Other churches that deserve a visit are: Sant'Anna in the hamlet of Scandosio, Madonna degli Angeli in the hamlet of Convento, Madonna della Neve in the hamlet of Boschietto. Innumerable votive shrines are dotted throughout Valle Soana and were often built after vows were taken and graces were obtained. Among these are the "chapel-refuges": they are larger in size with a portico that stretches out to protect the path. Two of these chapels are on the path to Servino and four along the mule track that leads to Nivolastro. On the path that leads from Tressi to Boschietto, in the locality of "la Barma", there is a particular votive shrine built high up on the rock. Pezzetto, the "Village of Nativities" is also worth mentioning. Every year in Pezzetto, the inhabitants and the holidaymakers transform the narrow lanes of the village into an open-air exhibition of nativities, made entirely with materials they find in the wild and typical of the mountain tradition.

Source: Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso
Itinerary code: GPR
Recommended period: June, July, Auguat, September
Access by public transport: Yes
Classification: Provincial with high mountain development
Provinces crossed: Torino