The
coastline in South West Italy, Liguria, offers many beautiful rock
climbing spots. Finale Ligure has many routes (2000) in a small area. Nice
crags and partly a nice environment have built the reputation as a rock climbing
"Mecca". The area Castelbianco and the valley has a possibility to be developed
to one of the biggest sport climbing areas in Europe, but already offers very
nice climbing in a beautiful valley.
The climbing in
Finale Ligure is very nice, on Limestone crags spread in the area and some
of them, as the Monte Sordo area, the la Parete Dimenticata, Rocca di Corno,
Rian Cornei and Val di Nava offers nice climbing, beautiful nature, quite
easy access and is recommended.
The area above the
village Veravo, Bauso, is the older part of climbing crags in Castelbianco.
The most popular crags is the hard mostly overhanging Castelbianco, the brand
new area of Terminal (2005-2006) and crags on the hillside behind the computer
village Colletta. Most of the routes in this area is developed during the
last 4-5 years. Situated near Finale Ligure the area has lot of visitors,
and week ends during winter you can meet many climbers from all over the world.
The area offers for now almost 500 sport climbing routes.
