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Premia
Valle Antigorio village above the Orridi gorge pools, with thermal baths and a mineral museum.
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Highlights
11 from neighbouring places
Orridi e Marmitte della Valle Antigorio
Gorges and glacial potholes cut into the Antigorio granite, with walkways above the pools.
Museo Mineralogico di Premia
Minerals and crystals from the Ossola valleys, shown at Premia in the Valle Antigorio.
Terme di Premia
Thermal pools fed by a warm spring in the Valle Antigorio, open to the mountains.
Torchio di Croveo
6.3 km away, in Baceno
A great timber wine press at Croveo in the Valle Antigorio, of a kind once shared by whole hamlets.
Chiesa di San Gaudenzio di Baceno
6.8 km away, in Baceno
The church of San Gaudenzio above Baceno, lit at night above the Antigorio gorges.
Chiesa Monumentale di San Gaudenzio
6.9 km away, in Baceno
A Lombard Romanesque church above Baceno dedicated to Gaudentius, first bishop of Novara, enlarged in the fifteenth century.
Capanna Enrico Castiglioni
8.3 km away, in Baceno
A hut at the northern end of the Alpe Devero plain, above Baceno.
Vie lunghe all’Alpe Devero
8.3 km away, in Baceno
Long granite routes on the walls around the Alpe Devero, in the Veglia-Devero park.
Formazza
8.3 km away, in Formazza
The Val Formazza, the northernmost valley of Piedmont, settled by Walser farmers from the Valais.
Museo dell’Alpeggio all’Alpe Devero
8.4 km away, in Baceno
A museum of pasture farming on the Alpe Devero, opened in 2005 to record the valley's herding year.
Casa Forte
8.8 km away, in Formazza
The Schtei Hüs at Formazza, a stone Walser house holding an ethnographic collection of the pass trade.
Museo Casa della Montagna di Viceno
9.7 km away, in Crodo
A museum at Viceno above Crodo on mountain farming and the Antigorio's stone houses.
Bouldering a Foppiano
10.3 km away, in Crodo
Granite boulders in the woods at Foppiano in the Valle Antigorio, a long-established bouldering ground.
Parco Naturale Alpe Veglia-Devero
10.8 km away, in Crodo
A nature park of two high pasture basins above the Ossola, with lakes and Walser paths between them.
Historic site
Nothing of this kind in Premia.
Routes
9 from neighbouring places
PERCORSO SLOW TREK
A slow walk through the Orridi di Uriezzo gorges near Premia to the glacial potholes of the Marmitte dei Giganti.
- 6.9 km
- Distance
- 200 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 7 min
- Duration
Via dello Sbrinz
A long stage of the Sbrinz route, the old cheese-carriers' road from central Switzerland over the Alps into the Ossola.
- 20.7 km
- Distance
- 761 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 8 min
- Duration
- 35
- Check-ins
Tourist Office Formazza Valley 1 285 m
Fondovalle 1 215 m- Piedilago 720 m
- Ufficio turistico 782 m
MTB del Toce
A long climb up Val Formazza to Passo di San Giacomo at 2,313 m, passing Aalts Dorf, the Laghetto Valgeis and Rifugio Maria Luisa.
- 52.4 km
- Distance
- 2 313 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 50 min
- Duration
- 214
- Check-ins
Trekking
A long day in the Val Formazza, climbing off the valley floor onto the pastures of the Lepontine ridges.
- 40.5 km
- Distance
- 937 m
- Ascent
- 12 h 8 min
- Duration
- 31
- Check-ins
- Tourist Office Formazza Valley 1 285 m
- Fondovalle 1 215 m
- Piedilago 720 m
- Ufficio turistico 782 m
- Lago di Antillone 1 229 m
- Backer 1 258 m
Mountain bike
A steep Val Formazza ride from Sottofrua up to Passo di San Giacomo, with Rifugio Maria Luisa and the Laghetto Valgeis near the top.
- 53.0 km
- Distance
- 2 250 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 7 min
- Duration
- 199
- Check-ins
MTB del Toce Tappa 2: Premia
A climbing stage up the Toce valley from Piedilago to Premia and on past Sagersboden to the hamlets of Ponte and Fondovalle.
- 18.7 km
- Distance
- 1 284 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 15 min
- Duration
- 23
- Check-ins
- Fondovalle 1 215 m
- Piedilago 720 m
PERCORSO MTB: Arvenolo e il Muro del Diavolo
A ring route from Crodo on low-traffic asphalt and gravel tracks, passing the Rifugio Monte Zeus and a megalithic dry-stone complex.
- 19.9 km
- Distance
- 604 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 20 min
- Duration
- 15
- Check-ins
MTB del Toce Tappa 1: Montecrestese
A stage ride climbing off the Ossola valley floor past the Cappella di Arzalovo to viewpoints above the Orrido di Balmasurda.
- 17.7 km
- Distance
- 780 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 18 min
- Duration
- 6
- Check-ins
Escursioni
6.4 km away, in Baceno
A short climb from Baceno up to the hamlet of Osso on the flank of the Antigorio valley.
- 6.6 km
- Distance
- 379 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 39 min
- Duration
- 4
- Check-ins
Escursioni facili
6.5 km away, in Baceno
An easy walk at Baceno in the Valle Antigorio, below the Devero pastures.
- 5.7 km
- Distance
- 238 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 55 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
Via Arbola Tappa 1: Baceno
7 km away, in Baceno
The first stage of the Via Arbola, climbing steeply out of Baceno past the Arco Romano into the mountains above the Antigorio valley.
- 11.3 km
- Distance
- 1 640 m
- Ascent
- 9 h 29 min
- Duration
- 46
- Check-ins
PERCORSO MTB: Veia di Scuetar (Via degli Scoiattoli)
6.7 km away, in Baceno
A long ride on the slopes above Baceno, taking in the cross at Esigo, the Alpe Scarpiola and the falls on the Agàro stream.
- 29.7 km
- Distance
- 1 658 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 5 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Via Arbola Tappa 2: Alpe Devero
8.3 km away, in Baceno
The second stage of the Via Arbola, based on the Alpe Devero above Baceno, with a heavy day of climbing in the high Ossola.
- 21.0 km
- Distance
- 2 409 m
- Ascent
- 14 h 27 min
- Duration
- 105
- Check-ins
PERCORSO MTB
8.3 km away, in Baceno
A gravel ring above Alpe Devero, climbing past the two Sangiatto lakes to the Bettelmatt pastures by way of Alpe Crampiolo.
- 21.6 km
- Distance
- 760 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 38 min
- Duration
- 155
- Check-ins
MTB del Toce Tappa 3: Formazza
8.8 km away, in Formazza
A stage from the Toce waterfall up the Val Formazza to Rifugio Maria Luisa and on to the Passo di San Giacomo at 2,313 m.
- 16.0 km
- Distance
- 2 313 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 5 min
- Duration
- 185
- Check-ins
PERCORSO MTB: Alpe Deccia Tour
9.8 km away, in Crodo
A ride from Crodo on quiet roads and tracks, climbing past the Cistella campsite to the La Parigia viewpoint above the valley.
- 26.1 km
- Distance
- 1 231 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 29 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
- Pozzo piezometrico 581 m
PERCORSO MTB: Alpeggi di Varzo
14.8 km away, in Varzo
A loop above Varzo on a mix of surfaced and gravel service roads, climbing through the Veglia-Devero park country to the Rifugio Pietro Crosta.
- 54.9 km
- Distance
- 2 692 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 30 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
No routes of this kind in Premia yet.
The region's own picks
Featured route
PERCORSO SLOW TREK
A slow walk through the Orridi di Uriezzo gorges near Premia to the glacial potholes of the Marmitte dei Giganti.
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