Highlights and tour details
Sentiero Tanaro Path (STA) is a partially cycle-hiking itinerary, marked with the red/green symbol, which goes along a long ridge that crosses the Langa Cebana and then goes up the Upper Valle Tanaro. An internal ridge of Sentiero Tanaro - called Dorsale Mongia - also connects the long ridge of Valle Mongia from Colle di Prato Rotondo just below the slopes of Monte Mindino, between the municipalities of Garessio and Viola as far as Scagnello, Mombasiglio and Lesegno. This variant also connects the Sentiero Tanaro with the Sentiero Balcone Monregalese through the village of Valcasotto in the municipality of Pamparato and then joins the SBM to Colle della Navonera.
Starting from the Municipality of Garessio, the itinerary intercepts numerous National and International routes, including the main routes within the Marguareis Park, among which the Sentiero Italia, the Alta Via dei Monti Liguri, the Via Alpina Rossa and the GtA.
Other information
Source: Unione Montana Alta Val Tanaro
Itinerary code: STA
Historical interest: Yes
Classification: Medium and low mountain provincial
Provinces crossed: Cuneo
Departure, arrival and municipalities crossed
Stages
- Sentiero Tanaro (STA) (236,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 1 Dogliani (Historic town centre) - Clavesana (Loc. S. Giuseppe) (12,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 1A Castellino Tanaro - Mombasiglio (14,70 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 2A Mombasiglio - Lisio (11,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 2 Clavesana (Loc. S. Giuseppe) - Castellino Tanaro (14,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 3A Lisio - Viola St Gree (7,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 3 Castellino Tanaro - Sale S. Giovanni (25,10 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 4 Sale S. Giovanni - Priero (5,60 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 4A: Viola St Gree - Pamparato (Borgo di Valcasotto) (13,20 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 5A Pamparato (village of Valcasotto) - Frabosa Soprana (hamlet of Fontane) (15,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 5 Priero - Nucetto (15,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 6 Nucetto - Priola (Borgata Casario) (16,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 6A Frabosa Soprana (Fraz.Fontane) - Ormea (Rifugio Valcaira) (14,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 7 Priola (Fraz.Casario) - Garessio (Borg. Pian Bernardo, Fraz. di Trappa) (15,30 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 7A Ormea (Rifugio Valcaira) - Chionea, Fraz. di Ormea (4,30 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 8 Garessio (Borgata Pian Bernardo, Fraz. di Trappa) - Ormea (11,20 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 9 Ormea - Quarzina (14,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 10 Quarzina - Rifugio Mongioie (13,70 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 11 Rifugio Mongioie - Rifugio Don Barbera (11,30 km)