In the philosophy of the qualified tourism, this week is begining from an circuit to sud of Gran Paradiso National Park territory described by Piero Giacosa: "From here the passage from the lowland...to the mountain is more sensitive:” that allows a historical visit in the territory of the Canavese before to climb around of the park and enjoy to see the alpine natural beauties, without difficulty...

The Valchiusella to north of the province of Turin is a true natural balcony of the Canavese, dispose among lowland, Ivrea's Amphitheater and Aosta Valley. This sud slope of Gran Paradiso is not very knowed. Our point of contact is the little and nice “Miniere Hotel” of Traversella ( three stars***): a restaurant is indicated typical in a lot of European gastronomic Guides for the fine quality of the food and for the imagination of his traditional dishes.

  Program

1°day: we will meet to Ivrea ( appointment to define at the station railway FS or to the motorway). Visit in Valchiusella, terraces disposition to the slopes of the Graie Alps, which are gathered millenaries pathes of the Canavese (Piemont). Set up, dines and overnight stay to Traversella “ Miniere Hotel.

2°day: breakfast; easy excursion, to visit the Fondo Village and its medioevale bridges. We will go near the beautiful Tallorno Village. Lunch to the sack and we go up the “Pera de Crus”, on the path of Dordogna: on a rock of about 15x10 meters, dispose as an altar, there are 70 anthropomorphous incisions of the End Neolithic. Late afternoon we will going back at hotel, dines and overnight stay. ( route time: 1-2 hours ).

3°day: breakfast; easy excursion to “ Sentiero delle Anime” path. The itinerary is to see medioeval incisions, testimony of the cult of the stones in the alpine antiquity, but even for the notable view of Valchiusella among the " suspended " villages. The lunch to the sack. But it is possible to organize a meeting with one of the last families still resident, for a lunch with “polenta”, milk, cheeses and typical alpine meats. We will going back same hotel, dines and overnight stay ( route time: 5-6 hours ).

4°\7°days: breakfast; we descent by Valchiusella with vehicles. We will visit to Masino Castle or to that of Agliè, considered National Monuments. The late afternoon, we will transfer to the Gran Paradiso National Park and set up in Soana Valley and Ceresole Reale for three days to easy excursions and naturalistic observations in the territory of high mountain. (time: 1-2 hours ).

8°day: breakfast and break up of the group.

This week is very interesting because is suggestive for youngs and families, to conclusion of the scholastic year. Its are seven days of activity out in full immersion alpine nature. Our place is in a fine farm holidays the best of Aosta Valley and then in National Park to observe the landscape and sketch, acquerelle colors or naturalistc photo. The group is limited to 10 participants.

The meeting is anticipated about the evening with the guide on the farm holidays. Presentation of the program: supper and overnight stay in farm holidays.

Gianni Tamiozzo, one of the protagonists of the '70 years on the story of the Park keeper and realizer of the book „History of the steinbock " and „ Among the chamois ", he proposes a beautiful week in farm holidays and after on the hut hight mountain where the uncontaminated environment of the Gran Paradiso is unique to 2500 meters.

Seven days of easy excursions and moments dedicated to the pure observation on the field completely contact with the nature of mountain. Before we look for to observe initially the domestic animals and then that following after, the wild animals. In the silence and among the suggestive landscapes, the participates will be able gather visual instants experimenting with the pencil and the colors, that surrounds them or that really is it may annotate on a notebook-album of an observer. in the case that some wants use even the photo, need a " [kit] " of objectives and camera.

Program

1 day - Meeting to Aosta in in the afternoon. To Sarre the farm holidays „Les Ecureuils ". Presentation of the program. Supper and overnight stay.

2 day-1\a breakfast. Contact with the agricultural world and the workmanship of the cheese of goats. Observations on the domestic animals performing the first squirt and leading the first layouts of colours. Snacks midday and dines in farm holidays.

3 day- 1\a breakfast. Excursion with reading of the landscape in the face of the north slope of the Gran Paradise National Park. Design of the “Paesaggio”. To look and observe of the flowers and describe the essential characteristics. Lunch to the sack to the open. in the late afternoon in farm holidays to draw again the domestic animals. Supper and overnight stay.

4 day- 1\a breakfast. Transfer in Canavese and for the Orco Valley: transfert with bus (euro 30\40 at person) to Ceresole Reale and to Nivolet highland m. 2500. Set up Refuge Savoia. Supper and overnight stay. Next days are dedicated to the sketch and to the watercolour and to the photo and short hikes.

5 day -1\a breakfast. Excursion to the lakes of the Rosset and look for “stambecchi e camosci” of wilderness park. In the late afternoon set up, supper and overnight stay Refuge Savoia.

6 day – 1\a breakfast. Excursion in Bastalon Place. Conclusion of the course of sketch: “How to create the distance impression of the landscape”. “How to establish the characteristics of a flower or of a vegetable”. “How to draw the wild animals”. Set up, supper and overnight stay Refuge Savoia.

7 day – 1\a breakfast. Conclusion of the week and break up of the group.

For some will be able be the " his first 4000" metres to climb Gran Paradiso summit. Itinerary ideally to the concept of the pioneer mountaineering, where the excursionist is pushed on for the glacier, leaving from the valley floor on foot. The run is developed on the south slope of the Park and it proposes of contact for the naturalistic knowledge of tihs alpine area of sud Alpes Graies.  

Program

1 day - Pont Canavese, ( appointment to define ). Setup, dines and overnight stay.

2 day - breakfast; hike up the deep valley of Percia and climb on the Nivolet 2500 m. Setup, dines and overnight stay in one of the Refuge ( route time: 6-7 hours ).

3 day- breakfast; crossing for the lakes of the Rosset to Pian Borgno. Descent to Pont of Valsavarenche with setup, dines and overnight stay in Hotel to 1960m ( route time: 4-5 hours ).

4 day - breakfast; to be going up the area of Moncorvè place. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Vittorio Emanuele II Refuge 2732 m ( route time: 3-4 hours ).

5 day - : breakfast; to climb top of Gran Paradiso 4061 m. In this case are been able rent the harpoon in Refuge. Reentry for the same itinerary. Setup, dines and overnight stay ( route time: 8 hours ).

6 day - breakfast; great crossing of Sud of the Park for Gran Paradiso Pass 3345 m, glacier of Noaschetta, about 2990 m and descent in the deep valley of Piantonetto. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Pontese Refuge 2200 m ( route time: 7-8 hours ).

7 day - breakfast; descent in deep valley and reenter to Pont Canavese. Supper and overnight stay hotel ( route time: 3-4 hours ).

8 day - breakfast and break up of the group.

Program

1 day – Meeting to Cogne ( appointment to define in accordance with the hotel of Cogne that will entertain the participants ). Supper and overnight stay.

2 day - breakfast; visit to the Alpine Garden " Paradisia " of Valnontey. Illustration of the launch types ground and acclimatizes that are gone to discover during the trekking. To be going up the Herbetet and long the hight path to the Loson. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Vitt. Sella Refuge 2581 m. (time of global route: 7\8 hours ).

3 day - breakfast; crossing from the Cogne Valley to the Valsavarenche for the ancient passage of the Loson, 3296 m. Descent in the deep valley of Leviona to Valsavarenche. Setup, dines and overnight stay in lodge or houses for vacations of the Valsavaranche 1600/1900 m. ( route time: 6-7 hours ).

4 day - breakfast; to accross Laveciau place till the Vittorio Emanuele II Refuge m.2732. (ore2\3). Possible preparation to climb Gran Paradiso summit. Supper and overnight stay. ( Is is necessary a second guide after 4 participants Euro 460 to divide among the participants ).

5 day - breakfast and to climg to Gran Paradiso summit 4061 (hours 4\6). Reentry to the Vittorio Emanuele II refuge. Supper and overnight stay.

6 day - - breakfast and descent in Valsavarenche and about the Seiva Valley to be going up the Gran Collet 2832 m, in direction of the more highlandscape of Europa: the Nivolet 2532 m. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Savoia Refuge 2532 m ( route time: 8-10 hours ).

7 day - breakfast; crossing for the hight path of Mejee to Eux Rousse m.1666. Reentry in in the afternoon to Cogne. Supper and overnight stay in hotel.

8 day - breakfast and breakup of the group.

Program

1 day – Meeting to Cogne ( appointment to define in accordance with the hotel of Cogne that will entertain the participants ). Supper and overnight stay.

2 day - breakfast; visit to the Alpine Garden " Paradisia " of Valnontey. Illustration of the launch types ground and acclimatizes that are gone to discover during the trekking. To be going up the Herbetet and long the hight path to the Loson. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Vitt. Sella Refuge 2581 m. (time of global route: 7\8 hours ).
3° day - We will go across to Loson Pass m.3296 to Valsavaranche and Leviona Sup. m.2581. (It is possible crossing to Neyron Pass m.3295; but this is an itinerary much long and difficult adapt to physically prepared persons to the Montandaynè and to the F.Chabod Hut m. 2750).

4°/5° days - We will climb the top of Gran Paradiso 4061. We will be in two days in Huts: Chabod m.2750 and Vittorio Emanuele II m.2732. Half-board in these Huts.
6 °day - We will go crossing to Gran Paradiso Pass m.3345; Noaschetta Glacier, Gias of the Losa Valley and we will get to the Colle dei Becchi m.2990, to descent Piantonetto Valley to half-board Pontese Hut m. 2220 .
7 °day -We will climb up Colle Teleccio m.3304; descent for the Valeille Glacier to Lillaz or Cogne Valley.

8 °day - Breakfast and break up of the group.

From the 1990 the " Gypaetus Barbatus " was returned in the skies of the Gran Paradiso. The European project of the " UICN " get a fine apparitions in these last years and during the last springs. This great bird is now observable with some fortune, in the itinerary that our propose. Besides to Rhêmes Notre Dames it is also the Visit Center of the Park that illustrates the various phases of the introduction and the biology of this alpine volatile.

Program

1 day – Meeting to Cogne ( appointment to define in accordance with the hotel of Cogne that will entertain the participants ). Supper and overnight stay.

2 day - breakfast; visit to the Alpine Garden " Paradisia " of Valnontey. Illustration of the launch types ground and acclimatizes that are gone to discover during the trekking. To be going up the Herbetet and long the path in rates to the Loson. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Vitt. Sella Refuge 2581 m. (time of global route: 7\8 hours ).

3 day - breakfast; crossing from the Cogne Valley to the Valsavarenche for the ancient passage of the Loson, 3296 m. Descent in the deep valley of Leviona to Valsavarenche. Setup, dines and overnight stay in lodge or houses for vacations of the Valsavaranche 1600/1900 m. ( route time: 6-7 hours ).

4 day – breackfast; to be going up the highland of the Nivolet 2500 m. Setup to the Savoia Refuge. Supper and overnight stay, ( route time: 8-9 hours ).

5 day - breackfast; day to rest or brief excursion in Civetta place.

6 day - breakfast; to be goingo up the Basei Pass and also Summit if the participants are preparated 3338 m. Panoramic point among the Parks Gran Paradiso (Italy) and de La Vanoise ( France). Descent in Rhêmes Valley. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Benevolo Refuge 2285 m ( route time: 6-7 hours ).

7 day - breakfast; descent to Rhêmes Notre Dame 1723 m. To visit the Center of Gran Paradiso National Park dedicated to the "Gypaetus". Reentry in late afternoon to Cogne. Supper and overnight stay in Hotel.

8day - breakfast and breakup of the group.

Summer package that makes it possible to visit two valleys of Gran Paradiso National Park in just three days in order to discover their beauty spots and most actrative of mountain.

1 day – We are going up highland of the Nivolet 2500 m. Setup to the Savoia Refuge. Supper and overnight stay, ( route time: 5 hours ).

2 day - breakfast; we are climbing to Basei Pass and also Summit if the participants are preparated 3338 m. Panoramic point among the Parks Gran Paradiso (Italy) and de La Vanoise ( France). Descent in Rhêmes Valley. Setup, dines and overnight stay to the Benevolo Refuge 2285 m ( route time: 6-7 hours ).