The Witches' Tree – Bettola loop from Castello di Bramaiano
The Witches' Tree – Bettola loop from Castello di Bramaiano
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The Witches' Tree – Bettola loop from Castello di Bramaiano
03:06
35.4km
1,080m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 22, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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7.28 km
Passo Pia
Highlight • Mountain Pass
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7.28 km
The Witches' Tree
Highlight • Natural Monument
13.8 km
CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW - MONTOSERO - BETTOLA
Highlight • Religious Site
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15.8 km
Directions to Ronchi - Bettola
Highlight • Structure
21.5 km
ALPINI HEADQUARTERS BETTOLA ALPINI GROUP - PIACENZA SECTION
Highlight • Rest Area
21.7 km
Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Oak
Highlight • Religious Site
The building, designed by Guglielmo Della Cella in pure Romanesque-Lombard style with a façade in black and white stones, was built with the plebiscite participation of all the people, both for the manual work and for the collection of the offerings necessary for the purchase of materials. A notarial deed confirms that the area on which the parish church of San Giovanni stands was donated by the Bianchi family in 1870, who maintained in perpetuity a grate communicating with the left side of the sanctuary.
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21.9 km
Bettola
Highlight • Settlement
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27.3 km
Colombo Tower
Highlight • Historical Site
Christopher Columbus (Latin Christophorus Columbus) He was born in Genoa, between August 26 and October 31, 1451 – Valladolid, May 20, 1506.
He was an Italian navigator and explorer of the Republic of Genoa. Christopher was the firstborn of four children (three boys and a girl) of Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa, managers of a small textile company.
Probably from Pradello the Colombo family moved to Genoa, with which Bettola had intense commercial relations, to escape the continuous looting of the Visconti militias that raged in the area in the mid-fifteenth century.
Piacenza, Bettola and Terrarossa di Mocònesi
In the nineteenth century it was instead hypothesized, without substantial foundation, that the Colombo family had Piacenza origins. According to the above conjecture, based on some sixteenth-century documents, Cristoforo would have been the natural son of a nobleman of the Pallastrelli family of Piacenza and of the Jewess Susanna, who only later married Domenico Colombo, Cristoforo's father.
According to others, however, the birthplace of Columbus could be identified in the municipality of Bettola, in the Piacenza area. Terrarossa could in fact refer, rather than to the hamlet of Moconesi, to the lands full of iron located near the hamlet of Pradello and owned by the Colombo family.
In Pradello there is in fact a medieval stone building that an ancient tradition identifies as the "Colombo tower", used as a small museum. If there is a possibility of the Colombos' Piacenza origins, the supposition of a flight of the family from Pradello to escape the raids of the troops of the Duchy of Milan, which actually occurred in Val Nure in 1439, seems to be discarded. Quinto al Mare, Mocònesi and Bettola are in any case centers located along what was once a trade route between the Genoese and the Po Valley, so it could be considered probable that Giovanni and Domenico Colombo, grandfather and father of the navigator, moved from Quinto or Terrarossa di Mocònesi to Pradello di Bettola.
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35.4 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
27.2 km
5.21 km
1.53 km
1.48 km
Surfaces
26.8 km
5.21 km
3.39 km
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Elevation
Highest point (960 m)
Lowest point (320 m)
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