One cloudy Sunday morning we decided to go and explore the Altopiano of Folgaria or the Plateau of Folgaria. We followed the indications from Trento and then parked just outside Folgaria at Passo Sommo.
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| We followed a well signposted path. |
Although we didn't know the place at all we decided to follow one of the paths. To make it brief we had a lovely day, a very nice walk with beautiful views and good food. Here's the description.
We followed a path that took us up the mountain towards the Sommo Alto Fortress from 1915-18 and the malga la Stella d'Italia at 1550 m. (http://www.rifugiostelladitalia.com)The path is very easy, although it goes gradually upwards so I wouldn't recommend it for strollers. I should mention that it belongs to the route of 100 km dei Forti/ 100 km fortress walk that takes you along the fortresses in the area of Folgaria. It took us past the remainings from the WW1, up to the cable cars and the malga Stella d'Italia with splendid views. We decided to walk a bit more up to the Sommo Alto Fortress. It was very windy there but we managed to have our sandwiches on one of the benches and then went to explore. The signs there are in Italian, English and German. We went back to the malga where we had drinks with delicious cakes. It was busy there and at first they wanted us to have our cakes standing (!) Luckily someone did let us take a seat (it was already 2 o'clock after all). Unfortunately they didn't understand what long coffee was (we mentioned caffee americano), though they claimed they did, and instead of giving us warm tea they brought us iced tea (it was cold outside!) and didn't want to change itthey made it felt that they didn't want to change it. They made us feel as if we were creating the problems not them. So beware, make sure you are very precise when you order, on the other hand you'll find quite often in Trentino that the service is not the best. So just go expecting the worst and you could be even surpriced :)
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| The seggiovia that takes up the Sommo Alto from Francolini. |
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| Rifugio Stella d'Italia where you can get some refreshments. |
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| The Fortress Sommo Alto. |
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| The easy path passing the golf course. |
Duration: this walk at leisurly pace took us half a day.
Level: an easy path, because of going up though it's not good for strollers.If you want to avoid walking you could even take a cable carfrom Francolini up to the Malga Stella d'Italia/ Sommo Alto. I'm afraid I was not able to find a phone number but it usually is open during summer.
How to get there: the drive by car took us about 40-45 mins. From Trento we followod SS12 and then SS350 towards Folgaria.
Useful websites:
the malga Stella d'Italia website:
the website in English about the area:
Alternative walks not tried out by us:
Folgaria: Val Golla, start from Folgaria Ovest/ West via del Parco, follow percorso vita then panoramic point (punto panoramico) and back. It takes 1h30 mins and it's an easy walk.
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