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Montemonaco Trail 154: Foce di Montemonaco – Palazzo Borghese

S Start: Foce di Montemonaco · 941 m A Finish: Palazzo Borghese · 2,090 m

Map and track: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Trail facts

Start
Foce di Montemonaco · 941 m
Finish
Palazzo Borghese · 2,090 m
Route
one way
Trail marker
154
Municipality
Montemonaco

Warning: no dogs allowed, not even on a leash. The Park prohibits dogs along the E17 hiking route from Capanna Ghezzi to Foce di Montemonaco, of which this trail is part.

Montemonaco Trail 154 climbs from Foce di Montemonaco, at 941 m, to 2,090 m, below Palazzo Borghese, where it meets trail 261. It covers 6.2 km and about 1,160 m of elevation gain, with practically no descent at all. CAI difficulty E.

Warning no dogs allowed, not even on a leash. The Park prohibits dogs along the E17 hiking route from Capanna Ghezzi to Foce di Montemonaco, of which this trail is part.
Distance
6.22 km
Elevation gain
+1,160 m
Elevation loss
−11 m
Lowest point
941 m
Highest point
2,090 m
Difficulty
E, hiking
Time
4 h 40 min (estimate)

From the OpenStreetMap track and the Copernicus DEM profile; time is an estimate.

Before you go

Forecast at the start

  1. Today16° / 11°0.0 mmCloudy
  2. Tomorrow17° / 11°5.2 mmPartly cloudy
  3. Friday13° / 9°23.3 mmHeavy rain

Forecast by MET Norway, updated automatically · license CC BY 4.0

Rules and orders: Park website. Snow and avalanches: Meteomont bulletin.

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Elevation profile
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Ascent
1,160 m
Descent
11 m
Lowest point
941 m
Highest point
2,090 m

Elevations: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018.

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Indicative OpenStreetMap track: check the markers and trail conditions on site.

The route of trail 154

At Foce there are parking lots, drinking water points, a picnic area and the small pond called Il Laghetto.

The climb starts right away. In the first two kilometers the trail gains more than 400 m; at km 1.9, at about 1,370 m, there is a drinking water point right on the trail. It is the last one: from there to the end there are more than four kilometers and 700 m of elevation gain with no water.

The gradient eases only for a short stretch around km 3, at 1,530 m, then resumes steadily. In the last kilometer the trail passes below the Sasso di Palazzo Borghese (2,119 m) and Palazzo Borghese (2,145 m), about 300 meters from the route, and reaches the junction with trail 261.

Trail 154 technical details

The Park includes it in the E17 hiking route, "Sui passi del Guerrin Meschino" (In the footsteps of Guerrin Meschino), which links Castelluccio (Capanna Ghezzi) to Foce by way of Colle Abieri and Palazzo Borghese: 13.7 km, 990 m of elevation gain, 4 hours and 40 minutes one way, walkable in both directions, graded EE. The listed status is "open hiking route, maintained".

Starting from Foce, as in the route on this page, this section alone involves 1,160 m of ascent.

Trail 154 map

At the end, trail 261 leads on one side to the Passo di Sasso Borghese pass, 700 meters away, and on the other descends to the Monte Prata parking lot.

Points of interest along trail 154

The name of the E17 comes from the romance by Andrea da Barberino, written in 1410: according to the Park, the trail is part of the route the knight Guerin Meschino followed from Norcia to Monte Sibilla, to ask the Sibyl about the origins of his family.

Nearby

Straight-line distances.