Mountain hut
Historic site
Summit
Monte Camparient o Talamone
via Grande Traversata della Valsesia: Tappa 1 Bocchetta della Boscarola
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Rassa
Valsesia village of 67 people at the head of the Sorba valley, in beech and larch forest.
- 14Highlights
- 5Routes
- Featured summit · Monte Camparient o Talamone
Highlights
All 14 from neighbouring places
La Chiesa di Riva Valdobbia
9 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A church consecrated in 1326 at Riva Valdobbia, rebuilt after a flood of the Vogna torrent in 1640, with a painted facade.
L’assolata Val Vogna fino al lago de la Peccia
10.1 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A gently graded path up the Val Vogna from Riva Valdobbia, an old Walser mule track leading to the Lago della Peccia.
RIFUGIO ZAR SENNI
11 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A hut in the Otro basin above Alagna, a hanging Walser valley of stone-and-timber hamlets.
Le Miniere di manganese
11.1 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
Manganese workings above Alagna, driven into the slope in the nineteenth century and open on guided visits.
Baita Walser Reale
11.2 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A Walser house of stone and timber above Alagna, rebuilt in the traditional way and run as a hut.
La Chiesa di Alagna
11.5 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
The parish church of San Giovanni Battista in the Cantro quarter of Alagna, its portico carrying nineteenth-century frescoes.
Castel Savoia
11.6 km away, in Gressoney-Saint-Jean
The fairytale residence built from 1899 for Queen Margherita above Gressoney-Saint-Jean, with five towers and its own park.
Casa Capriata-Rifugio Carlo Mollino
11.7 km away, in Gressoney-Saint-Jean
A hut in the Weissmatten ski area above 2,000 m, the Casa Capriata designed by the architect Carlo Mollino.
Il lago ed il rifugio dell’Alpe Campo
12 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A pasture and small lake on the Alpe Campo terrace, the classic balcony view of the Monte Rosa east face.
Lago Gover
12.2 km away, in Gressoney-Saint-Jean
A small lake in old conifer woods above Gressoney-Saint-Jean, with the Monte Rosa summits reflected on clear days.
GRAND HALTE
13.3 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A hut in Alagna built at the turn of the twentieth century, now run as an inn with a kitchen of its own.
RIFUGIO PASTORE
14.9 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A hut on the Alpe Pile meadows at 1,575 m in the Alta Valsesia park, on an old Walser pasture below Monte Rosa.
Il panorama del Rosa dal rifugio Pastore
14.9 km away, in Alagna Valsesia
A twenty-minute walk from the Alpe Pile hut to the most open view of the Monte Rosa glaciers.
Ecomuseo Walser
14.3 km away, in Gressoney-La-Trinité
A Walser house at Gressoney kept as it was lived in, with the timber gallery and stone roof of the Lys valley.
Nothing of this kind in Rassa.
Routes
15 from neighbouring places
RASSA
From the car park at Rassa, 917 m, beyond the stream on the left of the village, a surfaced lane runs on to the start of a steep road.
- 11.8 km
- Distance
- 0 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 11 min
- Duration
- 2
- Check-ins
Grande Traversata della Valsesia: Tappa 3 Alpe Salei
A long stage of the Valsesia traverse climbing to the Alpe Salei, high above Rassa.
- 11.5 km
- Distance
- 2 600 m
- Ascent
- 14 h 18 min
- Duration
- 16
- Check-ins
Ciclabile Scopello-Mera-Meggiana-Rassa-Scopello
A demanding loop out of the Valsesia, climbing to the Alpe di Mera and the Colle del Monte Ovago at 1,738 m before dropping to Rassa.
- 37.8 km
- Distance
- 1 398 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 40 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
Grande Traversata della Valsesia: Tappa 1 Bocchetta della Boscarola
A hard opening stage above Scopello, over Monte Bimella and the Testone delle Tre Alpi and across the Bocchetta dei Fornei to the hut at Alpe Toso.
- 14.2 km
- Distance
- 1 963 m
- Ascent
- 11 h 26 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Grande Traversata della Valsesia: Tappa 2 Alpe Toso
Stage two of the Valsesia traverse, climbing steeply from Rassa to the Toso alp in the Sorba valley.
- 7.6 km
- Distance
- 2 150 m
- Ascent
- 11 h 37 min
- Duration
Pista ciclopedonale della Valsesia: Tappa 4A Alpe Pianelle
5.2 km away, in Piode
A short branch of the Valsesia cycle and foot route, climbing to the Alpe Pianelle above Piode.
- 1.7 km
- Distance
- 199 m
- Ascent
- 50 min
- Duration
- 1
- Check-ins
Anello Ciclopedonale di Mera
9 km away, in Scopello
A short cycling and walking loop at Mera above Scopello, in the woods of the upper Valsesia.
- 4.3 km
- Distance
- 137 m
- Ascent
- 31 min
- Duration
- 8
- Check-ins
Cicloturismo: Salita Biella-Oropa
14.2 km away, in Biella
A road ascent from the centre of Biella up the valley to Oropa, finishing near 1,100 m at the head of the road.
- 12.5 km
- Distance
- 93 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 28 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Col Mologna Grande
6.9 km away, in Gaby
The climb from Gaby in the Lys valley to the Col Mologna Grande, a pass on the crest towards the Valle Cervo.
- 7.2 km
- Distance
- 815 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 54 min
- Duration
- 10
- Check-ins
Ciclabile Alpe di Mera-Bielmonte
9.2 km away, in Scopello
A high link between the Valsesia and the Val Sessera, running over Bocchetto Sessera and the Bocchetta della Boscarola on the way to Bielmonte.
- 20.1 km
- Distance
- 952 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 40 min
- Duration
- 16
- Check-ins
PIODE
5.7 km away, in Piode
A steep climb out of Piode in the Valsesia, crossing the old Sesia bridge towards Piedimeggiana and rising to Il Pizzo and Monte Bo.
- 5.0 km
- Distance
- 1 118 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 4 min
- Duration
- 13
- Check-ins
Cascata di Niel
8.2 km away, in Gaby
A short walk up to the Niel waterfall above Gaby, in the Walser side valley of the Lys.
- 1.3 km
- Distance
- 150 m
- Ascent
- 54 min
- Duration
Punta Jolanda
14.7 km away, in Gressoney-La-Trinité
A short climb above Gressoney-La-Trinité from Edelboden up to Bedemi at about 1,900 m, following the line of the lifts.
- 8.6 km
- Distance
- 587 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 30 min
- Duration
- 17
- Check-ins
Col Mologna Piccola
6.9 km away, in Gaby
A climb from Gaby to the Col Mologna Piccola, the lower of the two passes leading over to the Biellese side.
- 7.4 km
- Distance
- 658 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 9 min
- Duration
- 8
- Check-ins
Ciclabile Balmuccia
14.7 km away, in Rossa
A route the length of the upper Valsesia, past the Salto di Piode falls and the valley's churches and museums.
- 31.0 km
- Distance
- 849 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 21 min
- Duration
- 34
- Check-ins
Pista ciclopedonale della Valsesia: Tappa 5 Piode
6.2 km away, in Piode
Stage five of the Valsesia cycle and footpath, running along the Sesia valley floor through Piode.
- 15.6 km
- Distance
- 620 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 47 min
- Duration
Pian du Beily
8.5 km away, in Gaby
An easy walk from Gaby to the pastures of Pian du Beily, on the Walser slopes of the lower Lys valley.
- 4.8 km
- Distance
- 262 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 52 min
- Duration
Col Lazouney
6.9 km away, in Gaby
The ascent from Gaby to the Col Lazouney on the ridge east of the Lys valley, on old pasture tracks.
- 7.1 km
- Distance
- 840 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 1 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
CAMPERTOGNO, Fraz. Tetti
6.6 km away, in Campertogno
The usual line up to Punta Sivella from the Valsesia, a big climb by way of the wide pastures of Alpe Argnaccia.
- 8.7 km
- Distance
- 1 692 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 19 min
- Duration
Passo di Pra Bianco
11.7 km away, in Gressoney-Saint-Jean
An easy walk to the Pra Bianco pass above Gressoney-Saint-Jean, at the head of the Lys valley.
- 4.0 km
- Distance
- 318 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 3 min
- Duration
- 29
- Check-ins
No routes of this kind in Rassa yet.
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RASSA
From the car park at Rassa, 917 m, beyond the stream on the left of the village, a surfaced lane runs on to the start of a steep road.
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