Svino - Monte Mataiur/Matajur
Starting point: Svino (250 m)
| Latitude/Longitude: | 46,2424°N 13,569°E |
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Walking time: 3 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Elevation gain: 1392 m
Elevation difference along the route: 1392 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): ice axe, crampons
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Access to starting point:
A) Access from Tolmin: From Tolmin we drive towards Kobarid and on the newly built bypass road which on the right side bypasses Kobarid, we drive straight towards the center. Only a little before the center of Kobarid, a road branches off to the left towards the village Svino. The turn-off is marked! We follow this road to the spot where it starts ascending. We park on a parking lot by the road. If we continue driving to the village Svino, we didn't gain anything because parking is not possible there.
B) Access from Bovec: From Bovec we drive towards Kobarid and when we come to the bypass road past Kobarid, we turn right into the center of Kobarid. In the center of Kobarid, a road branches off to the right towards the border crossing Robič. Here we continue straight (slightly left) towards Tolmin but only a few tens of meters to the spot where the road branches off to the right into the village Svino. Further, follow the above description.
Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road by which we have parked. After a good five minutes of walking, we come to the village Svino, where we notice signs for Matajur left, and Sužid right. Here we continue left among houses with unnoticeable signs for Matajur. If we are not sure which path is the right one, it is better to ask someone, if we have this option. The correct path goes a little more left and soon past houses leads us over pastures after which the path goes into the forest. Ahead the blazes are more frequent and orientation is also easier.
The path then starts to ascend more steeply and after approximately half an hour of walking brings us to a wider cart track which comes from the village Sužid. Further, we ascend for some time on the cart track, which has quite a few junctions, but the path is well marked. Before the crumbling old military hut, the path to Matajur directs us left upwards. Here the cart track changes into a steep military mule track, which on a quite steep slope brings us to less steep slopes. The path then brings us to a newly built forest road which we only cross. On the other side of the road, we ascend a few steps and in front of us we see shepherd huts on Svinska planina.
On the planina we notice signs left planina Idrsko, right planina Sužid. There is no sign for Matajur but the path towards Matajur is marked.
We find the path among the huts on the planina and it continues through a smaller indistinct valley moderately upwards. Although the path is marked, it is poorly visible in places and overgrown in some spots. After approximately 15 minutes of walking from the planina we come to a water reservoir and nearby we notice mountain signposts. Here we head straight in the direction of Matajur on a still poorly visible but marked path. The path then leads us over an overgrown meadow after which we join a nicely trodden path which comes from the village Avsa or Livek.
We continue right and the path, which ascends moderately, soon brings us to the next signposts, where we continue left upwards in the direction of Matajur. Only a few steps further we come to the border ridge between Slovenia and Italy. Here the path turns right and continues ascending along a wide gentle ridge. We follow this path, which leads us through ever more beautiful views, to the summit of Matajur, which we already see in front of us.
Svino - Svinska planina 2:40, Svinska planina - Matajur 1:05.
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Discussion about the trip Svino - Monte Mataiur/Matajur
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| pier14. 01. 2010 |
I plan to do the hike on this path on Sunday, so I ask for info on snow conditions and, if any, orientation difficulties.
Many thanks
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| mojcej'723. 08. 2010 |
Yesterday 2.8.2010 I chose this version of the ascent to Matajur, as one of the points of the SLOVENE alpine transversal. But on the summit I was horrified to find only an ITALIAN logbook, and even that in a wooden box inside the church filled with entries to the end and even on the covers. No stamp inside, outside at the scenic stone point, nothing, even the tin box was empty. Is PD Gorica on vacation?, or don't we know anymore whose Matajur it is - Slovenian or Italian. And where is the Slovenian logbook? On the other side in Dom pod Matajurjem (Pelizzo pass) they do have a stamp in the hut - triangular - but I don't know if it counts for our transversal. Moreover it says MONTE NERO, which translates to Črni vrh. But that's the next peak to the west, if you're doing Italian chain hikes. However on maps Črni vrh is listed under the Italian version MONTE FUSCO. It would be nice if peaks, stamps and maps in border areas were aligned. Well, the day was nice anyway.
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| mojcej'723. 08. 2010 |
Yesterday 2.8.2010 I chose the ascent to Matajur from the village Svino. On the summit of Matajur as a point of the SLOVENE transversal but horrified to find only ITALIAN logbook (in wooden box inside the church) and even that filled with entries to the end and even on the covers. No stamp inside, outside at the scenic stone point, nothing, even the tin box was empty. Is PD Gorica on vacation?, or don't we know anymore whose Matajur it is - Slovenian or Italian. And where is the Slovenian logbook? On the other side in Dom pod Matajurjem (Pelizzo pass) they do have a stamp - the only one - but it's triangular and it says MONTE NERO (Črni vrh), Rifuggio Pelizzo. Now I don't know who is more confused, us or them. Črni vrh is namely the peak further west marked on Slovenian maps as Črni vrh with translation Monte Nero, on Italian maps as Monte Fusco and below with Slovenian translation Črni vrh. It would be nice to align peaks with stamps (PZS) and maps in border areas also with the Surveying and Mapping Authority. Well, even without that the day was nice.
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| mojcej'723. 08. 2010 |
Well then they stole it, what do I know, now it wasn't there.
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| klm7. 02. 2013 |
The stamp was already taken away by a raven on 3. 7. 2012. Otherwise, just a note to the above description: along the path we do not pass "collapsing old military huts" especially not military ones, but a collapsing hay barn, such as are scattered all around Matajur and it is a typical architectural type of building that served for storing hay on hayfields. These were most in use between the 1950s and late 1970s of the previous century, after which they began to gradually overgrow.
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| Skovik8. 10. 2014 |
Is there or isn't there a stamp at the top now?
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| slavkoo8. 10. 2014 |
There IS a stamp at the top. That "railway one", you need to bring your own ink pad. Near the scenic stone viewpoint, you have to look carefully, it's on some pipe...
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| Skovik9. 10. 2014 |
Super, thanks for the reply 
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| Sarak1. 08. 2025 13:14:06 |
And who suggests a circular tour, for example, if after the first day overnight at rifugio peluzzo. Is it too far from Svino to (over Matajur summit) rifugio peluzza? I have the condition, but so far I've been on tours where it's all 5 hours of walking (up and down...)
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| mirank1. 08. 2025 13:26:36 |
From the summit to Koča Pelizzo it's at most half an hour walk, but whether the hut is open and has overnight capacity, I have no idea.
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