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La panchina alla croce del faggio Big Bench n° 174 – Locana Acini E Rose Guest House
The Big Bench at Croce del Faggio is located in Locana, in Valle Orco, at an altitude of 1400 m, on a spectacular panoramic point that overlooks the entire valley.
The path to reach it is simple and suitable even for those who are not trained in mountain walking, but once you arrive at your destination, the landscape that opens up in front of you truly leaves you speechless..
Now we will explain where you are and how to reach the Bench at Croce del Faggio!!
To see this bench you need to reach the hamlet of Piandemma, in the municipality of Locana, and leave the car where the road ends, in a small clearing shortly after the small church (Chapel of the Madonna della Neve).
From here a road starts (asphalted and then dirt) which leads to several groups of very suggestive huts and to large grassy plateaus where you can spread out a blanket and relax. After about 50 minutes of walking and a total height difference of 286 m. you reach the giant bench.
Not far from the Big Bench there is a large cross, the Faggio Cross. Once upon a time there was a large solitary beech tree here that dominated and protected the entire Locana Valley, a true symbol for the population at the time. In 1942 a storm uprooted it: hence the idea of building a cross in its place, also called in Piedmontese dialect "La Crus 'dl Fò".
At the foot of the cross, every year, on a Sunday in August, a mass is celebrated in memory of those who fell in the mountains.
From here it is possible to continue to reach Punta Croce in a few minutes or, with a longer walk, Punta Uja, at an altitude of 1725 m.
If you are a snowshoe lover, the giant bench is an excellent winter destination for snowshoeing immersed in a beautiful snowy panorama.
