High Route 2 — Stage 14: Crest → Donnas
Advertencias
- Check weather and residual snow early season
- Book huts in peak season
18 km
+980 m
−1784 m
7 h
Nivel físico
~1569 kcal estimadas
Mapa y ruta
Traza GPX oficial — Región Valle de Aosta / lovevda.it
Descripción
Puntos clave
Salida
Crest · 317 m
Llegada
Donnas · 1127 m
Final Alta Via 2 stage: climb to Retempio sanctuary, cross Col Pousseuil and descend to Donnas (330 m).
The grand finale descends among heroic vineyards and chestnut woods to the Dora valley floor: you cross the Donnas Nebbiolo terraces, Europe’s highest for this variety, and enter the village along the Roman road of the Gauls, with its rock-cut arch and medieval borgo. Here Alta Via 2 ends, at 322 metres, having touched 3,296 at the Lauson.
Puntos clave
Santuario di Retempio
1460 m · 4 km from start
Col Pousseuil
2100 m · 10 km from start
Marked AV2 alpine pass
Ciencias de la Tierra
Geología y paisaje
Terraced slopes of the lower Dora Baltea: Mesozoic limestones and calcschists, vineyard paleosols and Würmian fluvial terraces.
Historia y cultura
The Roman road at Donnas, cut into the rock in the 1st century BC with its arch and cart ruts still visible, is the best-preserved stretch of the Gallic road.
Fuentes de agua
Fountains and services at Crest-Damon, Donnas and intermediate villages.
Cómo llegar
Trenitalia Donnas station; VITA valley-floor buses.
Aparcamiento
Parcheggi comunali nei paesi di valle; verificare limitazioni in alta stagione.
Galería de fotos
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Flora del sendero
Etapas contiguas
AEditado y verificado por Andrea Rama
Fuente de datos: Catasto Sentieri Regione Autonoma VdA — Alta Via n.2 · Open data — DGR 899/2014
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