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Pian del Cansiglio – Valmenera Plain loop from Site ALPHA

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Pian del Cansiglio – Valmenera Plain loop from Site ALPHA

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Pian del Cansiglio – Valmenera Plain loop from Site ALPHA

01:43

19.1km

460m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 19, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Area Wilderness Croseraz-Val Bona

Natura 2000 - Foresta del Cansiglio

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Start point

Parking

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50 m

Hangar Cansiglio

Highlight • Monument

Hangar Cansiglio is a former NATO missile base dating back to the Cold War. The Pian del Cansiglio area was home to the Bianchin Barracks, an air force base with a surface-to-air defense system. It was equipped with American Nike Hercules missiles, which could also carry nuclear warheads. The former bunker, abandoned since 1979, was handed over to Veneto Agricoltura in 2008, the Veneto Region's agency for research and innovation in the primary sector. The idea of converting it into the current environmental and ecological education center was born from the then head of the forestry sector, Paola Berto, and the tenacity of Veneto Agricoltura's sole director, Corrado Callegari.

The restoration project, which cost over €600,000, was funded by two regional grants. Seven boilers, containing small asbestos discs, were remediated, and 20 tanks, previously used for diesel and heavy fuel oil, were removed to ensure energy independence in the event of a power outage. Due to current building regulations and the availability of financial resources, approximately 50% of the existing building volume was demolished. This demolition spared the hangars and a bunker, as well as a large warehouse, now used to store Veneto Agricoltura vehicles, which are required for the management of the Forestry Center. The resulting inert material was used to build a parking lot and a camper area a short distance downstream.

Hangar Cansiglio, inaugurated on November 9, 2018, was furnished with native Cansiglio beech wood. Its current purpose is dual: a conference center and a small museum on the history of the area, particularly the Cold War. The inscription “Any carelessness can be fatal” served as a permanent warning to the military who guarded the nuclear arsenal.

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Former NATO base

Highlight • Historical Site

This is an area where a NATO base once stood. When I was a child my parents took us on holiday to the Alpago mountains and we often went to Pian Cansiglio, where they told me about this secret underground base that kept many missiles hidden. They also told me that the cows that could be seen near the base were fake, perhaps made of cardboard or wood.

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1.01 km

Rifugio Sant'Osvaldo

Alpine Hut

1.49 km

Pian del Cansiglio

Highlight • Natural

Pian del Cansiglio, with its mountain pastures and historic woods, is an oasis of tranquility ideal for walks and MTB rides. In autumn, the breathtaking colors and the quiet make this place perfect for regenerating, immersing yourself in well-kept and unique natural landscapes.

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5.31 km

View of the Piana in Foresta del Cansiglio

Highlight • Viewpoint

6.51 km

Strada Forestale Candaglia

Highlight • Trail

beautiful forest road, also for gravel

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6.73 km

Pian della Frattuza

Highlight (Segment) • Forest

10.9 km

Valmenera Plain

Highlight (Segment) • Forest

Up here, through the Campon valley, a tongue of the ancient and vast Piave glacier reached; the deposits of gravel and silt testify to this. Continuing downhill, the road runs alongside young fenced-in reforestations and reaches the Piano della Valmenera, one of the three great depressions that characterize the area. At the beginning of the plain, on the left, you can see a blade, the largest in the Cansiglio. It hosts a unique vegetation of marsh plants for this area. Some species of water birds stop near the blade during their migrations: mallards, teals, garganeys and lapwings. From here the route borders the "Pian di Landro-Baldassare" Nature Reserve. The vast Piano della Valmenera is an area of undoubted beauty, where it is not uncommon to encounter animals in the wild: foxes, deer, fallow deer, roe deer and birds of prey such as the buzzard, the black kite and the kestrel.

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14.3 km

Farmhouse in the Italian Countryside

Highlight • Settlement

Part of the itinerary towards Valmanera in winter.

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19.1 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

12.1 km

6.53 km

444 m

Surfaces

8.59 km

8.19 km

1.99 km

196 m

Elevation

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Highest point (1,260 m)

Lowest point (910 m)

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Thursday 9 July

21°C

14°C

21 %

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Pian del Cansiglio – Valmenera Plain loop from Site ALPHA

Hangar Cansiglio

Former NATO base

Pian del Cansiglio

View of the Piana in Foresta del Cansiglio

Strada Forestale Candaglia

Pian della Frattuza

Valmenera Plain

Farmhouse in the Italian Countryside

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