. DOMENICA 11 OTTOBRE 2009 - TREKKING CON LA BARCOLANA
TRAVERSATA LUNGO IL CIGLIONE DEL GOLFO DI TRIESTE
SENTIERO KUGY – BY THE HOLY CROSS VAL Rosandra
PROGRAM FOR THE RIDE: description and schedule
8.00 am Departure by bus from Padua. Stop for coffee during the journey.
10.30 am Arrival at Santa Croce. Meeting with the friend-collaborator Sergio Ollivier, who will accompany us during today's excursion.
10.45 Santa Croce. Visit the old country Karst. We will review the church of XXX and the adjacent shaft and monumental, leaving the country, the ancient church of San Rocco from the roof slabs of stone and the statue of the pilgrim beggar, placed in front. Following a local road, we reach the Watchtower Slataper: grand vision that opens the entire Gulf of Trieste, which is beautifully studded with sailboats from 2,000 participants in the Barcolana. Continue past the villages of Contovello (carved lintels, the main street of a medieval) and Prosecco, taking up the steep ridge crest of the karst. When at the top of the "Napoleonic road, often at the point where they train the climbers through the path 1 and go up to Watchtower of Italy, an ideal place to watch from the famous sailing regatta. Stop for a snack lunches.
13.00 Vedetta of Italy. This is followed by Kugy the path that keeps close to the great karst ridge which encloses the Gulf of Trieste. In succession, we move to the Sanctuary of Monte Grisa (visit) Opicina area Obelisk, Panoramic Mount Belvedere (large antennas repetitive), and the Watchtower Alice, the highest point of the itinerary (472 m), where you can attend the final phase of the "Barcolana". Soon you reach the picnic area of \u200b\u200bMount Split. Stop ½ hour will be set up near one of our refreshment area, prepared by the friends of Trieste.
15.00 Continue along the ridge along a track which easily exceeded the golf courses Padriciano, leading to Bosco Bazzoni (Austrian-born).
16.00 pm Visit to the experimental plot of the Wood and Bazzoni, accompanied by a guide caving in prehistoric set up within the "Black Cave" (optional, ½ hours, cost € 2). We continue along a scenic path from which there is a great view from the tough Rosandra val. Finally we come to the village of San Lorenzo and his lookout. D'benefit from having the renowned restaurant at the Well ".
17.00 San Lorenzo. Follow for 1 km. the link road, you arrive at the Cave of Basovizza, (short tour with historical explanations) where the bus will be waiting.
17.45 departure by bus. Passing through the Trieste Karst plateau, you reach the village of Colludrozza (fraction of Sgonico), where guests in the house of a villager (at other times used as a popular "osmiza"), there will be a convivial dinner while enjoying a menu of typical dishes Trieste: a dish with ½ jota sausage, bread, candy, wine and mineral including, at a price of € 7 per person.
19.00 pm Departure by bus to return to Padua, arriving before 21.30.
