Riserva speciale

 

Path

Travel time 60’

 

Paths

Travel time 60’

 

Path

Travel time 30/60’

 

Path

Travel time 30/60’

 

Path

Travel time 45’

 

Path

Travel time 15’

 

 

The Special Reservation of the Sacred Mount of Belmonte was established by Piedmont Region in 1991 on a total area of about 349 hectares that it extends over part of the towns of Courgnè, Prascorsano, Pertusio and Valperga’s territories. In 2003 UNESCO inserted, into the List of World Heritage, the seven Sacred Mounts present in Piedmont (Belmonte, Crea, Domodossola, Ghiffa, Oropa and Varallo) and the two in Lombardy (Ossuccio and Varese) with the reason: “The nine Sacred Mounts are groups of chapels and other architectural artifacts erected between the 16th and 17th centuries, dedicated to different aspects of Christian faith. In addition to their symbolic and spiritual meaning, they possess remarkable beauty, virtue and pleasantness qualities, and they appear to be integrated in a natural and landscape environment of hills, woods and lakes. They also contain very important artistic artifacts like frescoes and statues”. The inclusion in the UNESCO’s List imposes “the obligation to guarantee identification, protection, preservation, promotion and transmission to future generations of its own cultural and natural heritage”. The Management Body of the Sacred Mounts was established in 2012 and has its own registered office at the Sacred Mount of Crea in Ponzano Monferrato (AL). (www.sacrimonti.org)

 

 

• Don’t go outside the paths;

• Keep the dogs;

• Regulated mushroom harvesting;

• Regulated wild berries harvesting;

• Risk of falling trees or branches in case of high wind;

• Risk of electrocution in case of thunders;

• Risk of falling by floating snow or ice on the ground in case of snowfall.

 

• Taking off trail paths;

• Leaving junks behind;

• Lighting fires;

• Picking up flowers;

• Disturbing the fauna.