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Malepasso Climb – Malepasso Road loop from Salza Irpina

Malepasso Climb – Malepasso Road loop from Salza Irpina

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Malepasso Climb – Malepasso Road loop from Salza Irpina

01:58

34.6km

680m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 26, 2026

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Parco Regionale dei Monti Picentini

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Start point

Train Station

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3.74 km

Malepasso Climb

Highlight • Trail

Old internal road to pretend to Volturara Irpina, so named for the presence of brigands who lived along the road

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3.83 km

Malepasso Road (Salza Irpina to Volturara)

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stretch of road that connects Salza Irpina to Volturara.
So called following the stories of ambushes by brigands

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10.1 km

This enchanting place preserves a very suggestive legend: in the Middle Ages in the village of Volturara, in correspondence with the current "dragon's mouth" it seems that a dragon with three heads and one eye housed a dragon, guarding a treasure. When the Visigoths arrived in the village they made a macabre discovery, namely that the inhabitants of Volturara were periodically obliged to pay human blood by sacrificing victims. The story has it that Jesus, a handsome young man, tall as giants, with his sword, would have killed the evil dragon which would have sunk into the earth creating the infamous "mouth of the dragon".

In more scientific terms it is a karst sinkhole, a sort of precipice that opens on the slopes of Monte Costa, formed after the earthquake of 1456, capable of holding about nine hundred liters of water and which constitutes the focal point of the "Bocca del Dragone ”from which the underground hydrographic network begins.

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29.1 km

Malepasso Road

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It is a stretch of road between Salza Irpina and Volturara where once upon a time the numerous brigands who hid in the gorge between the two mountains used to set up ambushes. Currently silent and very suggestive place.

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34.6 km

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Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

32.8 km

1.82 km

Surfaces

32.8 km

1.44 km

376 m

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Friday 10 July

32°C

16°C

18 %

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Malepasso Climb – Malepasso Road loop from Salza Irpina

Malepasso Climb

Malepasso Road (Salza Irpina to Volturara)

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