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27-10-2022: Route of 11.100 km. Total elevation gain 814 m.
Passo San Pellegrino is an alpine pass in the Dolomites at 1,918 m a.s.l.
Anciently the pass was simply called monte di alocco (mont de aloch), where the term aloch or alochet indicated the vast meadows where livestock still graze today. The toponym Alochet still exists and indicates a location about five kilometers from the pass towards Moena. During the Crusades era to the Holy Land, the pass was an important crossing along the road connecting Germany to the port of Venice. On June 14, 1358, the Moena community granted the friars of the Order of San Pellegrino delle Alpi to build a hospice for travelers on land called Camp de la rota near 'rio Allochi', on the border of the Bressanone episcopal principality. From then the pass took the name San Pellegrino. However, due to the extreme poverty of the friars, who lived only on alms (unlike other monastic communities that could exploit land rents), the San Pellegrino pass hospice was managed from 1453 directly by the Regola di Moena, which appointed its own lay prior. In 1915, at the outbreak of the First World War, the hospice (located opposite the Sant'Antonio church, but on the opposite side of the road) was completely razed by bombings. Numerous historical testimonies of the area are linked to events from the First World War fought right among these mountains between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the beginning of the 20th century, with the arrival of the first tourists and the spread of winter sports, economic interest in Passo San Pellegrino flourished again. Indeed, the construction of the first lift on the pass dates back to the 1920s-1930s, built by the Monzoni hotel manager. With the advent of private motoring in the 1960s, there was even greater development of tourist services, leading to the construction of the Arnika hotel in 1965-1966. In 1980, the Col Margherita cable car was built, whose 100-passenger cabins designed by Pininfarina were cutting-edge at the time. The itinerary starts from Passo San Pellegrino and reaches Passo delle Selle and related Refuge. We traverse the long crest of Monzoni, the trail is very narrow and partly exposed. Before Punta d'Allochet there are some equipped sections with pegs and steel cable. Numerous First World War remains, easily reachable.
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