Sunday, October 11, 2009 - SLEEPING WITH THE BARCOLANA
the ridge CROSSING ALONG THE GULF OF TRIESTE
Kugy PATH - FROM THE HOLY CROSS VAL Rosandra excursion program: description and schedule
7.30 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 "Napoleon's street", 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. It continues with the path Kugy always held near the big 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 will reach the area picnic del Monte Spaccato. Sosta di ½ ora; nei pressi sarà allestito un nostro posto di ristoro, preparato grazie agli amici di Trieste.
Ore 15.00 Si continua lungo il ciglione seguendo una facile carrareccia che, superati i campi di golf di Padriciano, conduce al Bosco Bazzoni (di origine austriaca).
Ore 16.00 Visita alla particella sperimentale del Bosco Bazzoni. Si prosegue seguendo un panoramico sentiero dal quale si gode una grande visione dall'alto dell'aspra val Rosandra. Si perviene infine al paesetto di San Lorenzo e alla sua vedetta. D'utilità la presenza del rinomato ristorante "al Pozzo".
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 Departure by bus to return to Padua, arriving before 21.30.
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