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CTT takes you on the trails.
Trail N. 501 is one of the vertical trails of the Cinque Terre, connecting Riomaggiore to the ridge trail AV5T. From Piazza Rio Finale at the Riomaggiore train station, the first 400 meters of Trail N. 501 follow Via Telemaco Signorini then wind up through narrow village side streets until Riomaggiore castle...
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CTT takes you on the trails.
Trail N. 593V starts out immediately with stairs as it climbs up to Piazza Vignaioli and then winds through the narrow side streets of Riomaggiore, lined with its typical tower houses. The stairs continue for 150 meters until Via di Loca. Here the trail turns right onto the village road and flattens out, with views of ...
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CTT takes you on the trails.
Trail SVA/593 is an ancient route that leads to the marian sanctuary Our Lady of Montenero and continues on to Telegrafo where it terminates at Trail AV5T. The trail starts out as a stone-paved path as it heads east from the village of Riomaggiore and follows the Rio Major stream. After 800 meters the trail crosses the ...
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CTT takes you on the trails.
Prior to the construction of the Via dell'Amore in the late 1920's, Trail N. 531 was the main route connecting Riomaggiore and Manarola, passing over Corniolo Hill. The Via dell'Amore has been closed for 8 years due to a rockslide that has yet to be repaired, so Trail N. 531 is again the main route between Riomaggiore ...
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CTT takes you on the trails.
Trail ex6a had been abandoned for decades. We came upon it by accident many years ago while foraging for mushrooms, and then found it again while designing the course for a vertical trail race. Trail ex6a was marked on several old maps that we had been poring over, and it was the most direct route to Monte le Croci, ...
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A VERTICAL WITH SOUL.
What's behind the Vertical Monte le Croci? Behind a trail that is an emblem of fatigue? Where did the idea come from to elongate the course that ended behind the illuminated nativity of Mario Andreoli to make it even bigger?
It was in the woods back in 2005, while searching for mushrooms, that by chance we found ...
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