Sentiero Italia CAI: Colfiorito to Pantaneto (Stage N07)

The Route of the Sentiero Italia (Colfiorito - Pantaneto)

From Colfiorito, at 762 m, the first kilometers are flat and on asphalt: the route passes the church of Santa Maria di Plestia and goes through Taverne, reaching Dignano, at 885 m, at km 3.8. Just beyond the village is the Fonte dell'Aria spring, right on the route.

From Dignano a cart track climbs below Monte Castello, crosses cultivated meadows and descends to a watering trough, the Fonte Lavarone. The next section is the least obvious: follow a fence in poor condition along a conifer plantation and then an «ideal line» across open ground, climbing toward Monte Tolagna. Here the stage reaches its highest point, about 1,345 m, at km 9.3.

The route descends through the Val Canale to Collattoni, at 1,084 m, at km 11.6: here there are two water points, including the Fonte di Collattoni, and a parking lot. From the village it descends a little more to the valley floor, then climbs a dirt road to the Fonte Mara, at km 14.5. A last climb leads to the pass between Col di Mezzo and Monte Le Ovaglie, at around 1,250 m; from there a mule track and then a dirt road descend to Pantaneto, at about 1,000 m.

Sentiero Italia Technical Data (Colfiorito - Pantaneto)

In the opposite direction, from Pantaneto to Colfiorito, the stage has 755 m of ascent and 986 m of descent and takes about 5 hours.

Sentiero Italia Map (Colfiorito - Pantaneto)

As far as Taverne, the stage coincides with the Via Lauretana and the Cammino Francescano della Marca; for the first 7.5 km also with trail 302. In Collattoni, trail 331 starts for the Piani Lacci; at the Fonte Mara, trail 332 arrives, a variant that bypasses Pantaneto. In Pantaneto, stage N06 to Visso begins. On the ground, the section is also marked as trail 300, with the white-and-red flag.