8Nov
PolimiRun Lecco
A race on road and dirt track, from the Politecnico campus up towards the hills above Lecco.
Start and finish at the Politecnico campus, Lecco
Malgrate
Monte Barro
- Visit duration
- 2 h – 4 h
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- Lecco Branch
- Kaitu · CC0
- Maupao70 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Why go
Monte Barro, 922 metres high, rises immediately behind Malgrate and Galbiate.
It lies within the regional park established in 1983, whose woods, grasslands and cliffs support over a thousand plant species.
From the ridge the Lecco branch, Lake Garlate and Lake Annone are all visible together. Below the Eremo, an old Franciscan convent that later became a hotel and is now the park's centre, lie the Piani di Barra: here excavations carried out between 1986 and 1997 uncovered the remains of a Gothic-period settlement of the fifth and sixth centuries, with a dozen buildings. At the Eremo, the Barro archaeological museum holds over 400 finds from the digs, among them a hanging crown. It takes a couple of hours from the valley, less from the Eremo.
- Three lakes in one view from the ridge
- A regional park twenty minutes from Lecco
- A short climb with no technical difficulty
Highlights
- The summit ridge
- The Eremo, from which the climb is shorter
Getting there
- On foot from Malgrate or Galbiate; by car you can drive to the Eremo and walk less.
Setser56 · CC BY-SA 4.0Accessibility
- The Monte Barro park has started a programme to open it to people with motor and sensory disabilities, with new lifts and a path that makes it easier to reach the Piani di Barra archaeological area.
- The improved-access trail at the Piani di Barra is about five hundred metres long, with a compacted surface, a gradient under 8 per cent and a handrail. Along it there are four tactile panels with braille texts; at the start, in the picnic area, there is an accessible toilet.
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Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.