The crest of the island

Serrara – Fontana: the crest of the island, a poem in the moonlight

Duration: 4 hours
Difficulty: E
Difference in height: 300 m
Downhill altitude difference: 260 m
Maximum altitude: 789 m
Length of the route: 6.3 Km
Departure: Serrara (near the Bracconiere restaurant) at 21.00 on 21/07, at 20.30 on 18/08, at 20.00 on 15/09
Arrival: Fountain (square)
Route: Serrara, Bosco dei Frassitelli, Pietra dell'Acqua, Monte Epomeo (Punta San Nicola), Fountain
Equipment: mandatory trekking shoes and layered clothing, headlamp or flashlight, water
Cost: €29 with Expert Environmental Hiking Guide and country dinner at the end of the excursion
Booking: compulsory and possible by 8.00 pm of the previous day

The excursion takes place with a minimum number of 10 participants.

Route description:
It is certainly among the most particular proposals of the program, which combines the spectacularity and poetry that the landscapes on the crest of the island can give in the moonlight.

The route starts near the Bracconiere restaurant in Serrara where, through a wild and fascinating landscape on the western side of the island, you get to take the CAI 501 path, and from there, following the path, which alternates glimpses of the Gulf of Naples (exclusive in night version) to cultivated land, you get up to Pietra dell'Acqua (huge tuff rock that serves as a cistern, hence the name).

We have now reached the crest of Mount Epomeo, and the route continues until we reach the highest peak of the island, Punta San Nicola, where there is a hermitage dug into the huge mass of green tuff that forms the peak itself.

From this point, through an ancient cattle track carved into the rock, which then becomes a mule track, passing through a chestnut wood, the descent begins which takes us to Piazza di Fontana.