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The experienced excursionists know that cartography is an essential instrument to find their bearings safely.
For the Province of Piacenza there are two excursionist maps at the moment, scale 1:50000: the map n° 12 "The Piacenza’s Apennines" - edition 2004 (about the hilly area crosswise the four valleys) and the map n° 14 "The High Piacenza’s Apennines" edition 2006, about the rest of the provincial land.
The two maps form part of the regional series made by the Information and Geographic Systems Service of the Emilia Romagna Region.
Paths and numbers.
The provincial network by CAI has more than 100 paths that develop across about 800 km and are marked by white and red waymarks.
A range of numbers has been given to each valley:
_ The Arda Valley: paths from 901 to 999;
_ The Nure Valley: paths from 001 to 099;
_ The Trebbia Valley: paths from 101 to 199;
_ The Tidone and the Luretta Valleys: paths starting from 201.
The first number of each range corresponds to the main path of the ridge that divides two neighbouring drainage-basins:
_ 901 Arda/Nure;
_ 001 Nure/Trebbia;
_ 101 Trebbia/Tidone.
Moreover, there is an excursionistic Guide made by CAI (edition 2002) which describes 58 ring routes with white and red waymarks and contains some extracts of the above maps, such as information to get to the departure, difference in level, duration of the path, length, pictures, topographic map.
A 144 pages pocketbook to cross the whole Piacenza’s Apennines area, discovering an attractive and wild environment.
Besides, there is an exhaustive site - produced by the Emilia Romagna Region in cooperation with CAI - that makes easier the approach to excursionism: it’s PathsWEB, whose link is at the bottom of this page.
In the status bar, PathsWEB reports the coordinates of the point indicated by your mouse on the map in the geographic reference system WGS84, which represents latitude and longitude in millesimal degrees.
The paths may be displayed with Google Earth and downloaded in a GPS compatible format.
Here is a list of places where you can buy the regional cartography and the CAI Piacenza’s Apennines Excursionistic Guide:
Newsstand - Piazza Colombo - Bettola
Il Papiro, Piazza Duomo - Bobbio
Newsstand, Piazza San Francesco - Bobbio
Putasso Newsstand, Piazza Matteotti - Borgonovo
Borgonovo’s IAT at Town Hall Fortress, Piazza Garibaldi
Puma Bookshop, Corso Matteotti 43/a - Castel San Giovanni
Volpi Newsstand - Castelvetro
Le Piane Camp site - Cerignale
Roffi Newsstand, Farini
Newsstand - Ferriere
Lago Nero Hotel, SS Valnure - Ferriere
Ferriere’s IAT
Gromi Bookshop, Via Liberazione 9/a - Fiorenzuola
MI.DA Sport, Via Liberazione, 24 - Fiorenzuola
Borsotti Newsstand, Via Roma - Gragnano
Bar Aloisia, Grazzano Visconti
Rigolli Newsstand, Piazza Castellana - Lugagnano
Newsstand - Marsaglia
Sport in Open Space - Marsaglia
Adventure Academy, Provincial Park - Morfasso
Guarnieri Newsstand, Piazza Vittoria, 3 - Ottone
Newsstand - Pecorara
Giardino Alpino, Praticchia - Pecorara
Malacalza Newsstand, Via Nazionale, 10 - Perino
L’Altrosport, Via F. Frasi - Piacenza
Quagliaroli Newsstand, Via Genova, 34 - Piacenza
Bissi Newsstand, Via Farnesiana - Piacenza
Marchesini Newsstand, Via Raineri - Piacenza
Stucchi Bookshop and Stationery, Piazza Borgo - Piacenza
Newsstand - Besurica district - Piacenza
Mondadori Bookshop, C.so Vittorio Emanuele 111 - Piacenza
International Bookshop, Via Romagnosi 31 - Piacenza
Italian Alpine Club, Stradone Farnese - Cavallerizza - Piacenza
Artedicola, largo dal Verme - Pianello
Cavalli Newsstand, Via Circonvallazione - SS Valnure - Ponte dell’Olio
Ghisoni Newsstand, Ponte dell’Olio
Vincini Grocery, Piazza Vittoria, 3 - Vernasca
Eclettica, Vigoleno - Vernasca
Tambussi Hotel, Capannette di Pej - Zerba
L’Altrosport Corso Garibaldi, 16 - Cremona
Giramondo Libri, Via Palestro, 5/a - Cremona
S. Stefano d’Aveto’s IAT - Genoa
Erredi, S. Stefano d’Aveto - Genoa
Caim New Economy Bookshop, Via XX Settembre, 19r - Genoa
Normanno Hotel, Brallo di Pregola - Pavia
Il Pastello Bookshop and Stationery, Stradella, Via XXVI Aprile, 85 - Pavia
La Montagna Bookshop, Via Sacchi, 28 bis - Turin
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