If you’re looking for an alternative to climbing in Finale, crags in and around Castelbianco offers a handful of crags that’s worth a few weeks of holidays to spend your time on. VALLE PENNAVAIRE is a quiet valley with little medieval towns and a few popular gourmet restaurants to go to. It ‘ s almost untouched nature surrounded by crags on all sides of the valley makes it possible to climb here in summer and in winter too. Olive trees, & Marones, are some specialties of the region . Looking aside from the amount of crags on each side of the valley, you will almost always find little lovely bridges , old romantic houses on a steep hangs, ruins and churches . Rosemary, Lavender & Thyme grows here like weeds. The valley is narrow, the hills on both sides steep. The way to the crags could be private property!

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