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Trail 401: San Giacomo – Ascoli Piceno

S Start: San Giacomo · 1,100 m A Finish: Ascoli · 174 m

Map and track: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Trail facts

Start
San Giacomo · 1,100 m
Finish
Ascoli · 174 m
Route
one way
Trail marker
401
Municipality
Ascoli Piceno

Trail 401 links Ascoli Piceno, at 174 m, to San Giacomo, at 1,100 m: 7 km and more than 900 m of difference in elevation. Difficulty grade: E. It is part of the Rete Escursionistica Picena, the Piceno hiking network.

Distance
7.04 km
Elevation gain
+0 m
Elevation loss
−854 m
Lowest point
174 m
Highest point
1,100 m
Difficulty
E, hiking
Time
2 h 35 min (estimate)

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

Before you go

Forecast at the start

  1. Today10° / 4°0.2 mmCloudy

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
0 m
Descent
854 m
Lowest point
174 m
Highest point
1,100 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 401

In San Giacomo there are a drinking water point at the start, a parking lot about a hundred meters away and a few picnic tables.

In the first two kilometers the trail descends from 1,100 to 900 m, passing below Monte Giammatura (1,034 m), to the level of the Rifugio Mario Paci, a mountain hut that is also an environmental education center and lies just over a hundred meters from the trail. From the hut the descent continues at a moderate gradient; at km 3.2 there is a viewpoint.

At km 4 the trail reaches the Pianoro di San Marco plateau, at 694 m, where there are several water points. Here the trail changes character: in the remaining three kilometers it descends more than 500 m. It passes below the Eremo di San Marco hermitage, where trail 471 branches off, then next to the church of San Bartolomeo and Piagge, at 465 m, with parking and water. The last section is the steepest, about 150 m of elevation in 400 meters, and reaches Ascoli at the church of the Madonna del Ponte.

Trail 401 technical details

Walked uphill, trail 401 gains over 900 m of elevation; the hardest part is the first one, from Ascoli to the Pianoro di San Marco.

Trail 401 map

From the Rifugio Paci to Ascoli, trail 401 coincides with stage 7 of the Grande Anello dei Borghi Ascolani. At Piagge and at the Eremo di San Marco the links 470A and 471 lead onto trail 470, which descends into the city by another way, toward via Spalvieri: the two trails can therefore be combined into a loop. The Colle della Luna trail starts in San Giacomo.

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