Pantasina - Carpasio - Glori

The starting point of the hike is the church square in Pantasina.

Walk into Via Santuario (arrow in Fig. 1) for about 150 metres past the Azienda Agricola Pino. After a few metres, turn right into a small side street (arrow in Fig. 2). After about 30 metres, the small road turns into a mule track (fig. 3). Follow the path, which climbs steeply in places, keep right at a junction (Fig. 4) and continue climbing until you reach the provincial road again (Fig. 5). Cross the provincial road. After a few metres uphill, the mule track branches off to the left. Follow the path uphill to the ridge. Keep right at the fork (Fig. 6). It will take you about 15 to 25 minutes to reach this point. Now follow the path uphill. After another 10 to 20 minutes through the forest, you will reach an open, stony slope from where you have a beautiful view of Pantasina. Cross the open area and follow the path uphill through the forest. After another 10 - 15 minutes you will come to a fork. Take the path straight ahead (Fig. 7). You will reach a saddle from where you have a marvellous view of Tavole and Villatalla in Val Prino. Monte Faudo rises up in the background. After approx. 5 - 10 minutes, you will come to a gravel road on which you turn left and uphill (fig. 9, 10). After a few hundred metres there is a chapel (San Bernardo) on the right (Fig. 11).

Turn right onto a stony path that leads steeply uphill (Fig. 12, 13). After a few metres you will reach a fenced-in water reservoir (fig. 14), before which the path turns left. The path winds uphill in many hairpin bends, then continues uphill along the mountain flank facing Villatalla until you reach a small saddle. Behind the saddle, keep left (Fig. 15) and follow the path through broom bushes, some of which obscure the path. Be careful, in summer the path is sometimes very difficult to see as it is usually almost overgrown and has not yet been marked. Follow the path, which always runs slightly uphill along the mountain flank, but is sometimes barely recognisable as a path (Fig. 16 - 22) past a fence that was used to breed partridges, and continue up the short, steep path (arrow in Fig. 23) until you reach a stone wall (Fig. 24).

Behind the rampart, turn right and follow the narrow path uphill through hedges. From there, climb up the slope in front of you (Fig. 25 - 28). At the top, descend the hill to the foot of the next hill. At the bottom right you will see a hut belonging to the "Hundefreunde" (cinofili ) (Fig. 29), to which a small road leads up from the provincial road. Above the hut, a narrow path runs slightly uphill along the mountainside (white dots in figs. 29, 30). Follow this path to the Passo del Maro (Fig. 31, 32, 33). From the San Bernardo chapel to here you need about 1 1/4 to 2 hours.

Follow the signpost pointing downhill to the path to Carpasio (Fig. 32). The path descends steeply for 400 metres, mostly through forest, you pass a house and finally reach a stream deep down in the valley (pic37). Cross the bridge and follow the path uphill to Carpasio (fig. 38), cross Carpasio (fig. 39, 40, 41), pass a car park, a restaurant and reach the provincial road that leads uphill to Colle d'Oggia. Follow the road uphill for a few hundred metres and, at a sharp bend to the right, turn left into a narrow road, which you follow until you reach the church of Madonna di Ciazzime (Fig. 42). There, turn right downhill (signpost fig. 43) and follow the path (fig. 44, 45, 46). You will pass several abandoned old houses (fig. 46). Eventually you will reach the church Santuario della Madonna di Lourdes (fig. 47). From there you have a beautiful view of Glori (fig. 48). Pass the church and follow the path, cross a bridge and reach Glori.

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