Monferrato Hills – Camino Castle loop from Casale Monferrato
Monferrato Hills – Camino Castle loop from Casale Monferrato
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Monferrato Hills – Camino Castle loop from Casale Monferrato
03:35
70.9km
1,090m
Road cycling
Hard road ride. Very 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
Tips
Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps
You may need to carry your bike.
After 33.5 km for 16 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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3.34 km
Monferrato Hills
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18.3 km
View of Camino
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19.2 km
Camino Castle
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As with many ancient buildings in Italy, there are many legends about the castle of Camino. One of the most recurrent narrates that in the year 1494, Count Scarampo Scarampi, feudal lord of the Marquis of Monferrato, was accused of making forays into neighboring villages causing problems such as thefts and fires. After a long siege of the castle, which lasted two months, it was captured by the militias of Costantino Aranite, prefect of Casale.
His wife, the Marquise Camilla, managed to escape from a secret passage and reach Casale to ask for a safe conduct for her husband's life. Scarampo Scarampi, however, had already been beheaded by those who had imprisoned him. When she learned of her husband's sad fate, out of desperation, the Marquise Camilla threw herself from the tower. Now, she walks around the battlements of the castle crying, while her husband walks around the manor with his head in his hand.
Legend aside, in the inner courtyard of the castle of Camino there is the sarcophagus of the noble Scarampo, depicted at rest holding his head with his left hand.
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33.5 km
Sanctuary of the Madonna di Crea
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Along the route you will encounter 23 chapels and 5 hermitages, among which the evocative chapel of Paradise, dedicated to the Coronation of Mary, stands out. From here, your gaze is lost in a breathtaking panorama that embraces the Alpine chain and the surrounding rolling hills.
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43.3 km
Grazzano Badoglio.
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48.1 km
Ascent towards Casorzo
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52.4 km
Olivola.
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In Olivola you can breathe an unrivaled serenity, a small oasis untouched by everything else that seems to have stopped in time together with its inhabitants and houses carved in cantoni stone.
The village can be visited in a few minutes and practically in its center there is a rather curious church. It is certainly the symbol of Olivola and it is the Romanesque Church of San Pietro e Paolo.
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70.9 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
65.2 km
4.47 km
602 m
375 m
153 m
119 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
64.6 km
6.11 km
< 100 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
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