Monte Buio

Monte Buio
Monte Buio
	Monte Buio from Incisa pass
Highest point
Elevation	1,400 m (4,600 ft)
Coordinates	44°34′53.4″N9°6′41.4″E / 44.581500°N 9.111500°E Coordinates: 44°34′53.4″N9°6′41.4″E / 44.581500°N 9.111500°E
Geography
	Monte Buio Location in Italy
Location	Liguria and Piedmont, Italy
Parent range	Ligurian Appennines
Climbing
Easiest route	hiking on waymarked foothpath

Last updated April 18, 2022

Monte Buio is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Appennines. It is located between the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. It lies at an altitude of 1400 metres.

Toponymy

Monte in Italian means Mount while Buio means Dark.^[2]

Geography

The mountain has grassy slopes and on its summit stands a large cross. Is a tripoint where the valleys of Brevenna, Borbera and Vobbia meet. A brief ridge connects Monte Buio with monte Antola and the Ligurian Sea/Adriatic Sea water divide. The Monte Buio overlooks the Val Vobbia.^[3]

Access to the summit

There are several hiking paths reaching the summit of Monte Buio, starting from Alpe and Vallenzona (two villages of the comune of Vobbia), from Tonno (Valbrevenna) and from the mountain passes of the Incisa and San Fermo.^[4]

The summit offers a good point of view on the nearby valleys and from it also the Ligurian Sea and a large stretch of the Western Alps can be seen.^[5]

Conservation

The Ligurian side of the mountain since 1989 is included in the Parco naturale regionale dell'Antola ^[6] while the Piedmontese one is part of the Parco naturale dell'Alta val Borbera .

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References

↑ 1:25.000 map of IGM, see www.pcn.minambiente.it
↑ buio, translation on www.wordreference.com
↑ de Bartolomeis, G. Luigi (1847). "Mandamento di Savignone". Notizie topografiche e statistiche sugli stati sardi (in Italian). Torino: Chirio e Mina. p. 1303. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
↑ "Anello Bormida-Spinti tappa 07 (CAPANNE DI CARREGA - MONTE ANTOLA)" (in Italian). Provincia di Alessandria. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
↑ Stefano Spadacini. "Fioriscono i narcisi sul monte Buio" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-07.
↑ Parco naturale regionael dell'Antola', pdf text on www.altaviadeimontiliguri.it Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

Andrea Parodi, Alessio Schiavi (2015). La catena dell'Antola. 113 escursioni fra Scrivia, Trebia e Oltrepo sui monti delle quattro province (in Italian). Andrea Parodi Editore. ISBN 978-88-8887-316-9.

External links

Media related to Monte Buio at Wikimedia Commons

Hiking itinerary to Monte Buio

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[1] 1:25.000 map of IGM, see www.pcn.minambiente.it

[2] buio, translation on www.wordreference.com

[3] Bartolomeis, G. Luigi (1847). "Mandamento di Savignone". Notizie topografiche e statistiche sugli stati sardi (in Italian). Torino: Chirio e Mina. p. 1303. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

[4] "Anello Bormida-Spinti tappa 07 (CAPANNE DI CARREGA - MONTE ANTOLA)" (in Italian). Provincia di Alessandria. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

[5] Stefano Spadacini. "Fioriscono i narcisi sul monte Buio" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-07.

[par2-6] Parco naturale regionael dell'Antola', pdf text on www.altaviadeimontiliguri.it Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine

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