Ridge from Mottac to Testa di Menta
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Continuing north-west from Mottac, the trail runs along a rugged ridge but poses no great difficulties. Every now and then there's a view to the wild valleys below.
This is a 'canonical' view from Pizzo Mottac, meaning that the image has been fitted to a computer-ge...
Pizzo Mottac, or just Mottac, isn't one of the largest Mountains in Val Grande National Park, but it ...
Passo di Basagrana can be reached from Trontano. It's over 2000 m high, so one of the higher access r...
The Costa Nera runs from Pizzo Nona to Bocchetta di Vald. Towards Bocchetta di Vald the ridge becomes...
On my detour from the standard route from Alpe Scaredi to In la Piana I was looking for a nice spot t...
Alpe Bondolo is located a few hundred metres of altitude below Bocchetta di Vald. It's a Bivacco Parc...
Alpe Campo di sopra can be reached by a detour from the trail leading down from Alpe Scaredi to In la...
A storm the day before has washed the air clean. On this crisp morning visibility is fair, but there ...
The Bocchetta di Vald is one of the passes from Val Vigezzo to Val Grande. This images was taken in A...
Approaching Bocchetta di Vald from Malesco, the trail passes through alpine pastures for a while. The...
The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium, i. e. "ad pedem montium", meaning "at the foot of the mountains": Piedmont, whose capital is Turin, is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where Po river rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France, Switzerland and the Italian regions of Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Liguria and Emilia Romagna.
Its history was linked for centuries to Savoy dynasty: since 1046 Piedmont was part of County of Savoy, raised to Duchy of Savoy in 1416, evolved in the eighteenth century into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. The role of Piedmont for Italy's unification is comparable to the role of Prussia for Germany and his army was the engine of the unification process, ended with the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. The presence of Savoy in its territory bequeathed a large number of castles and residences.
Lowland Piedmont is a fertile agricultural region, producing wheat, rice and maize and is one of the great winegrowing areas in Italy. The region contains major industrial centres: FIAT automobile plants in Turin, Ferrero's chocolate factories in Alba, tissue and silk manufactories in Biella, in Ivrea Olivetti was an important technology center, publishing in Turin and Novara.
