Trail 589, Preci: Saccovescio to the Junction with Trail 590

The Route of Trail 589

At the start in Saccovescio there are the Fonte di Saccovescio spring, a picnic table and a shelter. After seven hundred meters the trail reaches the Fonte Pidocchiosa spring, with a picnic table, next to Poggio la Fonte.

From there the real climb begins: between km 1 and km 3.6 the trail goes from about 900 to 1,400 m, on a gradient of around 20 percent. At the top it runs on the level for about a kilometer and a half, passing below Monte Moricone (1,429 m) and over Colle Spagone (1,414 m), at km 4.9. The last 1.5 km descend about 150 m to the junction with trail 590.

Trail 589 Technical Data

The springs are all within the first seven hundred meters.

Trail 589 is part of the Park's E12 hiking route, «La natura sulla porta di casa» («Nature on the doorstep»): a 13.4 km loop with 920 m of elevation gain from Preci via Saccovescio and Collescille, 4 hours and 10 minutes clockwise, graded E and listed as open and maintained.

Points of Interest Along Trail 589

The Park describes the E12 area as a mix of cultivated fields and oak woods, home to the wildcat, the roe deer, which can be seen grazing at the edge of the woods at sunset, and the woodpecker, recognizable by its drumming on tree trunks.