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Valtorta
Village at the head of the Val Stabina under the Orobie watershed, with an ethnographic museum of the upper Brembana.
Photo: Ago76 · CC BY-SA 3.0 licence
- 1Highlights
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- Featured summit · Pizzo dei Tre Signori
Highlights
1 from neighbouring places
Ethnographisches Museum des oberen Brembana-Tals
A museum at Valtorta on herding, cheese-making and winter life at the head of the Brembana valley.
Rifugio Olmo
13 km away, in Mezzoldo
A hut above Mezzoldo in the upper Val Brembana, below the San Marco pass.
Nothing of this kind in Valtorta.
Routes
15 from neighbouring places
Una ricca palude ai Piani Olimpici
A flat, very short walk across the marshland of the Piani Olimpici above Valtorta, in the upper Brembana valley.
- 762 m
- Distance
- 10 m
- Ascent
- 12 min
- Duration
Rifugio Lecco - Rifugio Cesare Benigni
A hut-to-hut traverse under the Pizzo dei Tre Signori, over the Passo del Gandazzo and the Bocchetta d'Inferno by way of the Rifugio Alberto Grassi.
- 15.3 km
- Distance
- 1 374 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 50 min
- Duration
- 281
- Check-ins
Da Bobbio al Pizzo dei Tre Signori
A long day above Valtorta, crossing the Bocchetta di Varrone and the Passo del Cedrino past the Rifugio Alberto Grassi and the Rifugio FALC.
- 18.2 km
- Distance
- 700 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 42 min
- Duration
- 252
- Check-ins
A scavalco dello Zuccone
A long crossing from Ceresola di Valtorta, at the lift station for the Piani di Bobbio, over the flank of the Zuccone Campelli.
- 15.1 km
- Distance
- 1 770 m
- Ascent
- 10 h 35 min
- Duration
- 132
- Check-ins
Da Valtorta al Rifugio Grassi
A steep climb from Valtorta to the Grassi hut, on the crest between the head of the Brembana valley and the Valsassina.
- 6.5 km
- Distance
- 1 016 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 11 min
- Duration
- 31
- Check-ins
Rifugio Benigni - Rifugio Cà San Marco
4.9 km away, in Ornica
A high traverse above Ornica from the Rifugio Benigni to Ca' San Marco, on the old Venetian road over the Brembana watershed.
- 8.8 km
- Distance
- 378 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 37 min
- Duration
- 89
- Check-ins
La ciclabile della Valsassina
7.5 km away, in Pasturo
A valley cycle path through the Valsassina from Barzio down to Cortenova, passing the Rocca di Baiedo crags and the Cascata dello Sprizzottolo.
- 13.6 km
- Distance
- 80 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 21 min
- Duration
- 4
- Check-ins
Miniera di Cortabbio (LC) e dintorni
9.7 km away, in Primaluna
A long ride in the Valsassina taking in the Cortabbio mines, where guided galleries show how the miners worked underground.
- 27.4 km
- Distance
- 674 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 59 min
- Duration
- 5
- Check-ins
In mtb ai 3 Rifugi a Pian Resinelli
13.5 km away, in Abbadia Lariana
An easy family tour on the Piani Resinelli plateau below the Grigna Meridionale, calling at Rifugio Soldanella and Rifugio Carlo Porta.
- 4.9 km
- Distance
- 167 m
- Ascent
- 35 min
- Duration
- 111
- Check-ins
Al Rifugio Buzzoni dai Piani di Bobbio
4 km away, in Barzio
An easy hut-to-hut traverse on the Barzio side, crossing Passo del Gandazzo and Passo del Cedrino past the Rifugio Ratti-Cassin.
- 3.7 km
- Distance
- 89 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 9 min
- Duration
- 132
- Check-ins
Da Introbio al Rifugio Grassi
6.3 km away, in Introbio
A steep climb out of the Valbiandino past Rifugio Dino Tavecchia to the Bocchetta di Camisolo, then on to Rifugio Alberto Grassi on the Orobie ridge.
- 10.5 km
- Distance
- 1 471 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 58 min
- Duration
- 128
- Check-ins
In Valgerola al Rifugio Salmurano
7 km away, in Gerola Alta
A short climb in the Val Gerola to the Salmurano hut, just below the pass of the same name on the Orobie crest.
- 2.9 km
- Distance
- 399 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 35 min
- Duration
- 55
- Check-ins
Walk in the forest in Valgerola
7.8 km away, in Gerola Alta
A short walk through fir forest in the Val Gerola, cool in summer and silent under snow.
- 1.8 km
- Distance
- 201 m
- Ascent
- 50 min
- Duration
- 43
- Check-ins
Open route Valtellina OutdoorRododendri in Val Gerola
7 km away, in Gerola Alta
A demanding round in the Val Gerola timed for the rhododendron flowering, when the slopes above the huts turn deep pink.
- 14.0 km
- Distance
- 1 041 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 49 min
- Duration
- 188
- Check-ins
Laveggiolo Trona Soliva with joelette
9.4 km away, in Gerola Alta
A dirt road from the car park at Laveggiolo, 1,460 m, into the Val Vedrano, over a wooden bridge and round the mountainside towards Trona Soliva; joelette-friendly.
- 13.3 km
- Distance
- 512 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 23 min
- Duration
- 12
- Check-ins
Open route Valtellina OutdoorEcomusenses, the accessible trail in Valgerola
8.5 km away, in Gerola Alta
A paved, shaded kilometre in the Val Gerola with scent beds, sound instruments, touch panels and gnome houses, laid out to be walked by anyone.
- 639 m
- Distance
- 10 m
- Ascent
- 12 min
- Duration
Open route Valtellina OutdoorValgerola Lakes Tour
7 km away, in Gerola Alta
From Pescegallo on trail 148 to the Trona dam, built in the early 1940s for power, then over scree and old mine workings to the Lago dell'Inferno at 2,072 m.
- 14.8 km
- Distance
- 1 141 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 25 min
- Duration
- 149
- Check-ins
Pizzo Paradiso 2 493 m
Cioky Bar 1 456 m- Stalla Alpeggio Tronella 1 579 m
Bocchetta di Varrone 2 126 m- Rifugio FALC 2 120 m
- Bocchetta d'inferno 2 306 m
- +6
Open route Valtellina OutdoorVia del Taleggio e dello Strachitunt
9.7 km away, in Vedeseta
A themed walk above Vedeseta following the trail of the valley's two mountain cheeses, with the pasture of Vaccaregia along the route.
- 7.7 km
- Distance
- 351 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 36 min
- Duration
- 1
- Check-ins
Gerola Alta - Ecomusens path with joelette
8.8 km away, in Gerola Alta
The Valgerola ecomuseum's multi-sensory trail, walked out and back with a joelette because the last link of the loop is not yet passable.
- 1.8 km
- Distance
- 169 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 2 min
- Duration
Open route Valtellina OutdoorPizzo dei Tre Signori, symbolic peak among three provinces
7 km away, in Gerola Alta
A climb from Pescegallo on trail 148 past the Trona and Inferno reservoirs to the Pizzo dei Tre Signori, the peak where three provinces meet.
- 7.8 km
- Distance
- 1 214 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 55 min
- Duration
- 173
- Check-ins
- Pizzo dei Tre Signori 2 554 m
- Bastionata di Piazzocco 2 480 m
- Cioky Bar 1 456 m
- Stalla Alpeggio Tronella 1 579 m
- Bocchetta di Varrone 2 126 m
- Rifugio FALC 2 120 m
- +5
Open route Valtellina Outdoor
No routes of this kind in Valtorta yet.
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Featured route
Una ricca palude ai Piani Olimpici
A flat, very short walk across the marshland of the Piani Olimpici above Valtorta, in the upper Brembana valley.
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