6 BEIGUA GEOPARK BORDERS A2 BEIGUA REGIONAL NATURE PARK GEOPARK VISITOR CENTER - INFO POINT ROSSIGLIONE SITE OF WILDLIFE INTEREST SITE OF ORNITHOLOGICAL INTEREST T.Gargassa M.Nero SITE OF GEOLOGICAL INTEREST 4 STATE FOREST Val GargassaVeirera M.Poggio T. Stura Valico la Crocetta Valle Stura BOTANICAL PATH PANORAMIC POINT CAMPO LIGURE PICNIC AREA M. Calvo Bric Cipolla 5 ALTA VIA DEI MONTI LIGURI TRAIL TIGLIETO M.Pavaglione Pratorondanino SENTIERO LIGURIA TRAIL Foresta 3 890 di Tiglieto Badia HISTORICAL BUILDING di Tiglieto REMARKABLE RELIGIOUS BUILDING Acquabuona Orba Bric Mapassu MASONE MUSEUM Rio Baracca M.Croce TOURIST INFORMATION Valle dell’Erro Maddalena Passo Fruia AIRPORT URBE Colle Cima di Masca Rio Masone HARBOUR MIOGLIA 10 Acquabianca Alta Via Martina Olba Forte dei Monti Liguri Lago Rio Ciua Bric del Dente Geremia RAILWAY STATION o dei Gulli t Palo S.Michele s Bric Saliera 1107 M.Giallo M.Bono S.Pietro D’Orba o BUS STOP R o SASSELLO Rocca i HIGHWAY TOLLBOOTH R Passo Bric Cagiazza Erro della Marasca del Turchino HIGHWAY Bric Bric Rusca 6 Rio Veirera Bric dell’Oca M.Tarinè Praioli MAIN ROADS Vara Inf. T. CerusaValle Cerusa Badani Alberola Foresta della Deiva Vara Sup. Pian Manfre M.Reixa Fiorino Veirera Piampaludo Sentiero 10 NOT TO MISS Cima della Deiva 1183 Passo del Faiallo Liguria M.Tremino Orba M.Cucco Orbarina Bric Ciazzo Sambuco Bric Suriazza Rio del Giovo Bric Roverina Rio Reborgo 2 Cima Vaccheria MELE Torbiera del Laione Bric Costa della Bandia M.Ermetta della Biscia Fabbriche 1267 M.Grosso T. Cerusa PONTINVREA M.Argentea Passo della Gava Bric Damè 1 M.Pennone Bric Resunnou Rio Sansobbia Foresta Giovo Ligure M.Beigua del Lerone 7 Bric Gavetta Colle del Giovo VOLTRI Bric Alberti 1287 Pratorotondo M.Rama Rio Lerca GENOVA M.Cavalli 1148 Curlo Crevari Stella S.Giustina M.Sciguelo Bric Rocca Moglie Camullà M.Priafaia 1103 Rio LeroneTerralba Vesima 9 Rio Uomo Morto Lerca Alpicella Stella Sciarborasca ARENZANO Rumaro S.Bernardo Eremo del Deserto Stella S.Giovanni Le Faie Alta Via Arrestra dei Monti Liguri Bric Ovio CELEBRATING EARTH HERITAGE, Bric Camignolo Il Pero Stella S.Martino COGOLETO ENJOYING NATURE, CULTURE AND LOCAL TRADITIONS T.T Welcome to the Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark, amazing landscape located in Liguria Region, M.Olmo eiro Casanova in the north-western part of Italy. Since 2005 it has been a member of the European Geoparks Network Bric Genova Bric Schiena M.Grosso 8 (EGN) and the Global Geoparks Network (GGN). In November 2015, the same area has been recognized Stella as UNESCO site and included in the prestigious list of the UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGG). Gameragna Piani d’Invrea M.Zucchero This area is very important for understanding the geological history of Italy, especially the evolution of the Alps and the Apennines chains. The extraordinary geodiversity of the Beigua district is of outstanding scientific value and resulted in forming a large variety of landscapes and fascinating geomorphology. Besides the geological heritage, T. Sansobbia VARAZZE Sanda the Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark has the richest biodiversity in Liguria with several top class excellences from a biological point of view (wolf, golden eagle, short-toed eagle, eagle-owl, endemic plants and flowers, many amphibians and insects). CELLE LIGURE Similarly, the Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark has a rich cultural heritage exhibited in the field and in the local museums. Rock engravings, ancient buildings and monumental complexes tell the story of the evolution of human settlement in the area. 0 ALBISOLA SUPERIORE For visitors, the Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark offers different opportunities: visitor centers and A1 information points, geological trails, outdoor activities, educational programs, publications and guidebooks. Enjoy your stay in Beigua! ALBISSOLA MARINA Sentiero Parco Beigua Vivi Beigua Parco del Beigua Liguria @parcobeigua parcobeigua Unesco Global Geopark Riviera e Parco del Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark www.parcobeigua.it SAVONA A SHOWCASE PASSO DEL DISCOVERING 2 FOR GEODIVERSITY 6 FAIALLO AND 10 A FOSSIL CORAL REEF AND BIODIVERSITY FORT GEREMIA Jumping 28 million years back in time! Piampaludo area is simply one of the most Another wonderful area where you can That happens if you visit the outcrop at fascinating sites in the heart of the Beigua enjoy amazing landscape and a wonderful Maddalena - Ponte Prina which is a very UNESCO Global Geopark. You can find view walking along the Alta Via dei important palaeontological site with one something special at the Laione peat Monti Liguri trail. Passo del Faiallo is of the richest Oligocene coral fauna, in bog which is a site of great importance a very good start point for excursions very good conservation conditions and BE ACTIVE! from a naturalistic point of view, where ADVENTURE and trails of the Beigua UNESCO Global quite large. The coral bioconstructions 4 IN THE GARGASSA TAKE A WALK ALONG An exciting place to practice outdoor amphibians like the alpine newt, the Geopark, also important for wildlife and 8 set directly on the ophiolitic substratum activities all the year round. You have just crested newt and the fire salamander VALLEY CANYON geomorphology features in the steep THE OUTSTANDING that was clearly modeled by the sea. to choose what is better for you! Enjoy have chosen as their habitat. A little Not far from Rossiglione, the Gargassa slopes of the Cerusa Valley. Going to COASTLINE These bioconstructions are dense our huge network of trails developing further North you can observe a nice Valley offers places of pure beauty, eastwards you can reach Fort Geremia, Lungomare Europa is a scenic agglomerations of corals of different for more than 500 km. Not to miss the example of blockstreams. It is a curious among quiet small lakes, fascinating rock an impressive nineteenth-century fortress promenade of about five kilometres genres and species which lived in Alta Via dei Monti Liguri path along geomorphological feature which modified formations and a spectacular canyon. which rises on the crest of the mountains connecting the municipalities of Varazze shallow sea environments. These small the watershed and the Sentiero Liguria the forms of the local landscape at a You can walk through the Gargassa behind Voltri, the far western end of the and Cogoleto. Along the path, you can bioconstructions failed to form a real cliff along the coast for your trekking. Many particular time in the geological evolution Valley following the geological trail City of Genoa. The fort was built by the admire the typical Mediterranean scrub as they were crushed by coarse sediments trails have been equipped also for nordic of the area when the climate must (ring route). In this very special place of army of the Kingdom of Italy to control and the various geomorphological carried into the sea by rivers of torrential walking, orienteering, horse trekking have been much colder than it is now. the Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark the Passo del Turchino and the nearby processes such as the marks indicating character during phases of strong erosion and snowshoeing. Road bikers can follow Blockstreams are accumulations of large the typical ophiolitic rocks give way valley; it could host more than one the variations in the sea levels in the on the land. A subsequent limited increase several itineraries varying from the coast blocks which were incorrectly defined to the conglomerates, in which water hundred soldiers and it was armed past or those related to the tectonic of depth is testified by deposition of fine- up to the winding roads that climb the glacial deposits for a long time. Most of dug curious shapes. The presence of with eight big guns. movements that have shaped the present grained sediments (silt and sand) and steep sides of the mountains (Ciclovie del them have a tubular shape and rounded- serpentine, a dark green rock cropping Today the Fort Geremia is managed by morphology of the coast. by the presence not only of corals, but Beigua) and Mountain Bike enthusiasts off edges, sign of very small movements out on the bottom of ponds, gives the the municipality of Masone which, thanks Around Varazze the coastal strip is made also of foraminifera, calcareous algae will find every type of track on which they during the past. Also very interesting stretches of water a fascinating emerald to a recent restoration and conservation up of pale coloured rocks, called meta- and mollusks. A faithful reconstruction can challenge themselves. Looking for some wetlands nearby where you can tone. Here geodiversity reaches its top work, has transformed it into a rural refuge gabbros with greenish patches (pyroxene of this environment and very interesting adrenaline rush? Try canyoning among find reptiles like the grass snake; aquatic and vegetation goes along, varying with part-time custodian for the Beigua minerals) mixed to prevalently whitish fossil samples are visible at the Palazzo plunges and gorges down our creeks, insects such as the great diving beetle and according to the different geological Geopark’s visitors and a stop point along ones (plagioclase minerals). Approaching Gervino Geopark Visitor Center, in the climbing and bouldering in our dedicated the dragon-fly; very precious insectivorous substratum: from mixed woods on the Alta Via dei Monti Liguri trail. Cogoleto, the cliffs suddenly become very historic center of Sassello. sites or trail running on our tracks. Sea small plants as the Drosera rotundifolia. metamorphic rocks to thin pine forest dark, almost black, pointing out a different lovers will enjoy the coast: snorkelling or on serpentinites to bare canyon walls in substratum, characterised by rocks rich in scuba diving to discover the marvellous conglomerates where growing conditions ferrous minerals, called serpentinites. underwater world, sailing in the Ligurian are really extreme. In the middle of the Likewise fascinating is the underwater Sea in front of Arenzano, Cogoleto and ring route the ancient human presence landscape with colourful marine Varazze or surfing on some of the best is still clear: in the old village of Vereira organisms as well as very interesting waves in the Mediterranean Sea.