Trail 155, Montemonaco: Rifugio Sibilla – Monte Sibilla

The route of trail 155 to Monte Sibilla

At the hut there is a spring and, about a hundred meters away, a parking lot. The climb starts right away: in the first kilometer and two hundred meters the trail gains more than 220 m, up to the shoulder of Monte Zampa, whose summit (1,791 m) is just over a hundred meters from the trail.

Then comes the only easier stretch, almost level for about six hundred meters. After that the climb resumes steadily up to 2,000 m at km 3.5, and in the last five hundred meters it becomes steep: about 140 m of elevation gain. At km 3.9 the trail passes a few meters from the entrance of the Grotta della Sibilla (the Sibyl's Cave), at 2,150 m, and the summit comes immediately after.

Trail 155 technical details

The Park uses it for the ascent of the E10 hiking route, "Sulla montagna magica" (On the magic mountain): a loop of 11.8 km and 710 m of elevation gain, 4 hours and 10 minutes, graded EE, which then descends on trail 156. For this section the Park lists the trail status as problem-free.

On the E10 page the Park refers to the shuttle service run by the Comune di Montemonaco. In 2026 the shuttle goes up to the Rifugio Sibilla from May 30 to October 18 on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and the days before them, and every day from August 1 to 23. On service days the Sibilla municipal road is closed to unauthorized cars (ordinance no. 3/2026); tickets are sold at the stops, in Montemonaco and Collina.

Points of interest along trail 155

Monte Sibilla, the Park writes, is the symbolic mountain of the Mother Earth: in the Middle Ages knights-errant came here from all over Europe, drawn by the legends of its cave, inaccessible and shrouded in mystery.