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Starting point: Passo (797 m)
Height difference: 712 m
Time: 2 h 20 min.
The Salecchio village is certainly one of the most interesting and amazing places of the Ossola, because it proposes to the visitor the enigma of how, on this sunny balcony, lived for seven centuries a little Walser community, descending from the Germanic peoples that in Middle Ages time founded several colonies also south of Alps. This one and the next itinerary are closely linked: you can cover them by the end of the day, with a round trip, or in two day making a stop at the Salecchio Superiore Shelter.
Access: from the agri-tourism you take SS 659 towards Valle Formazza until you reach Passo. Passed the village, the road to Salecchio starts on the left (marked visible junction).
Itinerary. Parked the car, you take the cross-country road.
On the high part a steep terrace path (marked) cuts the last hairpin bends. When you arrive at the tunnel entrance, you can go through (warning: without lights; don’t forget an electric-torch!) or you can take on the left a lovely paved mule-track avoiding the tunnel.
At the exit of the tunnel, you continue on the path and for stretches along the track (follow the blaze) until you reach the Salecchio Inferiore houses.
From the church, a path cut into a mountainside go among wooden houses darkened by age and you reach the old school (still running until 1961) you start to climb along a large path with paved stretches until you reach Salecchio Superiore.
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