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Highlights and tour details
From Antronapiana follow the road to Lake Antrona and Lake Campliccioli. You cross the dam and then, skirting the lake, begin to go up the Valle del T. Troncone keeping to the hydrographic left. Crossing centuries-old larch woods you reach Alpe Granarioli and Casaravera and then Alpe Lombraoro. From here you start to climb decisively passing the Saler and Cingino Alps and finally you reach the Cingino Lake, famous for its "climbing ibex" on the vertical wall of the dam, and the Cingino Bivouac where you can spend the night.
Attractions
Lake Antrona was formed on 27th July 1642 following a gigantic landslide that completely obstructed the valley and also destroyed part of the town of Antronapiana. The artificial lakes of Valle Antrona date back to the years of 1920-1930: the dam of Lake Campliccioli, on the Troncone stream, with its eighty metres of height is still the highest in Ossola. The stage crosses the centre of the Alta Valle Antrona Natural Park. You cross a wood of centennial larch trees above Alpe Lombraoro. At Lago del Cingino you can almost regularly see the spectacle of groups of ibexes climbing with extraordinary agility on the almost vertical wall of the dam, attracted by the saltpetre coming out of the masonry.
Support points
Hotel and restaurant at Lake Antrona
Access
A8 motorway from Milan or A4 motorway from Turin and continuation on A26 motorway for Gravellona Toce. Continue on SS33 del Sempione to the Villadossola exit. From Villadossola provincial road of Valle Antrona to Antronapiana. The road continues to the Lake of Antrona
Other information
Itinerary code: ANT
Phone coverage:
Poor or absent
Recommended period: July, August, September
Historical interest: Yes
Access by public transport: Yes
Classification: Medium and low mountain provincial
Provinces crossed: Distretto dei Laghi
Notes on public transport
By train: from Milan with the FS del Sempione international line to Domodossola. From Novara with the FS Novara-Domodossola line, train stop of Villadossola. From Domodossola Station Autolinee Comazzi. Lines: Domodossola Antrona - Domodossola Macugnaga - Domodossola Verbania. For timetables Tel. +39 0324 240333 www.comazzibus.com