A row of large beech trees along an ancient stone road, little more than a meter wide. So old that its origin is still a bone of contention among archaeologists who work in excavations and investigations in the area: according to the most it is a very ancient cult lugo built by the community in some way related to the Celts. Nothing, however, limited areas, or bans, the whole area is easily visited. It is in fact one of the beautiful trails Beigua about an hour's drive from Genoa.
not expect, however, paved boulevards or imposing stone buildings. The charm of the street is all in the suggestion that the old way and send large trees. These are just a few hundred meters of stones which culminate in an area probably dedicated to the rite, which is characterized by large stones stuck into the ground.
The trail is very easy to get but before reaching the goal is to walk for half an hour in the coast, between the sunny slopes beaten by wind and sun, and then among the chestnut trees. Shortly after, the road in front of him, you can not go wrong. Just follow the red N. And 'enjoy life more beautiful in winter, when the sparse vegetation can truly appreciate and make good visible mysterious stones stuck in the ground.
lat. 44 ° 24'16 ", long. 8 ° 33'26, 51" - 8 ° 33'34, 44 ", qm 660-680 above sea level (IGMI 1:25.000).
Beyond a source and then a fork Bric Greppin with the shrine in the vicinity, remaining at high altitude, you come first to a field in which lies prostrate on an oblong stone with the characteristics of standing stones and then the "threshold" of the road to megalithic technique.
E 'this imposing a "street of stone uphill, along a total of about 200 m, which divides two-thirds of its length.
The stroke left or upstream is abruptly interrupted by the private road for Prariond, but in the bush following the boulders hidden in the green you get a panoramic field a hundred yards away, where some rocks forming a semicircle. For the latter characteristics are believed to be the remains of a cromlech.
Now we add the fact that the road would join megalithic boulders hidden in the bush.
The stretch or right down the road continues almost straight up to a plateau, where the stone-thick sequence of stops or, rather, turn right (SSW) to form a broad cromlech barrel surrounded by small plates stone stuck in the ground at intervals, it drops fairly steeply to a trail below (the "street stairs") the edge which stops abruptly. Its position seems to direct our gaze to the top of the Bric Greppin, to whom it is addressed.
The plateau is the highest point of the road, with a drop from the threshold of about m +20, Panoramic and open to the sea and the Gulf of Genoa, in the background of the profile of the Apuan Alps on clear days, to the north, however, the view is fully occupied by the long peak of M. Beigua; to the west stand, as mentioned, the Bric Greppin, the point from which we reached (beyond which you see the ridge east of Val Bormida) and the first slopes of Mount Priafaia. On the plateau, beyond the end of the road, you will identify, in the sense WE, an alignment between a huge boulder lying flat, a large natural rock outcropping and a menhir, downed at the point where the plateau began to slope toward the street and starts staircase S to W. This menhir has very flattened shape of a truncated pyramid and is unique of its similarity in shape and size, with the menhirs of Cian Munega from the sea and those lying on the rock Polissia (above) and places Ceresa (below).
will be attached a short video of the road ...
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