Pc) | Pietra PARCELLARA and PERDUCA (Val Trebbia

Type: Interesting

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Perino (Piacenza), September 20, 2017

We park the car on Via degli Alpini in PERINO (Pc), right where the long pedestrian bridge over the Trebbia river begins (marked CAI 167). Through fields and vineyards we reach Dolceto, then head towards PIETRA PARCELLARA, the unmistakable reddish rock pyramid: ophiolites. The trail is well marked and soon we are at the saddle where it forks into 'easy' and 'for experts'. Naturally we take the more difficult one along the ridge (CAI 169), with easy but somewhat exposed climbing passages, accompanied by the 'genius loci': a friendly little goat that came to meet us from the top of the rocks. At the summit (836 m) the panorama is great: from the Po Plain to our Alps, on a sunny day with light wind. We descend the easy trail to the Oratorio delle Parcellara. A little further, CAI 185 indicates the route to PIETRA PERDUCA, which we reach after passing two closed but... open gates. It is a rocky monolith and... religious (Oratorio di Sant'Anna) with water tanks at the top inhabited by newts (which we didn't see). For the return we head to the nearby village where a traffic-free hillside road takes us back to Perino.

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