Trekking in the Alta Via della Majella – Cima Murelle

Trekking in the Alta Via della Majella – Cima Murelle

The trek to the amphitheater of the Murelle is one of the great classics of the north Majella – Eastern allowing you to enjoy in one walk, of some of the most evocative landscapes of the Park. The trail follows the ridge “scrima Horse”, natural divide between three of the most beautiful and wild valleys Majella: Three caves valley, Valle Selvaromana and Orfento Valley. The view is breathtaking, 360° viewing that on days with clear skies you can see the Adriatic coast. The fragrant pines, glacial relicts found only at altitudes above the 1800 m, We will accompany us along the way to a fresh fountain at the foot of Mount Focalone, near which you can see the famous Tables of Briganti, testimony of frequenting these places by shepherds who manifested hacking it on the rock, discomfort in the present historical period unification of Italy.

The second part of the excursion will give fabulous views; breathtaking views of the Selvaromana Valley and the Valley of Hell, wild and unspoiled gorges at the foot of the Cima Murelle. When it reaches the bottom of the famous glacial amphitheater carved over millennia by immense glaciers in these areas during the last Ice Age, You will be observed in large herd of chamois Apennine that in this glacial valley spend the daylight hours and then descends into the beech woods at sunset. Also evident are the marine fossil record to witness the presence of a great ocean that thousands of years ago deposited much of the carbonate material of which today consists of the wonderful “Mother Mountain”, Majella.

Technical data

DIFFICULTY ': OF (Difficult)

TRAVEL TIME: 6/7 ore

DIFFERENCE: 700 m

Majella National Park

Majella National Park

The Majella National Park established in 1991, It has an extension of 74.095 ha, account 39 common and includes 4 large orographic individuality: the Majella massif, Morrone, Porrara and Monti Pizzi. With the second highest peak of the Apennines (Monte Amaro 2793 m), and the 55% of its territory at elevations higher than 2000 m, It is the second highest mountain range of the Apennines.

To see her from afar Majella appears massive and compact, but to see it close up it turns deep cracks which conceal an unexpected and surprising world: a long lattice I, Deep times, dry and cut into the rock like canyons, other more open and lush with streams on the bottom, as Alpine valleys. While those who walk at the top, above the 2400 m, He discovers an amazing world of arid and undulating stony, a particular environment, almost lunar, unique in the Apennines.

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