Highlight • Mountain Hut
Ghiaccioni Bivouac
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September 8, 2022
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Beautiful and solid structure (thanks to various renovations), inside it consists of a single room with wood stove, table, benches and two bunk beds. Outside, other tables with benches, barbecue and a source of fresh water.
The Ghiaccioni Bivouac was built by recovering an old ruin, dating back to the First World War, to house Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war who worked at the "lock" of Liocca.
(source CAI Bismantova)
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