The pearls of the Malvaglia Valley

After zigzagging our way from the road to Cascina di Dagro, we too can play hide and seek by plunging into a dense forest that, in little more than an hour, will take us to the high pastures of Prou, at 2000 metres above sea level, where the old alpine pasture now used as a refuge.

With ease, we continue along the more or less level path, which in three quarters of an hour allows us, maintaining the same altitude, to reach the pleasant Alpe di Cióu alpine pasture, which includes a couple of truly suggestive masonry buildings.

Behind the huts rises the steep southern flank of the Cima di Piancabella, an impervious slope called Madéi. The place name reveals that wild hay was also mown here. From Ciòu, you can return to Dagro on the path that descends towards the forest, which, in the shade of conifers, passes along the Ör della Strega, the 'Witch's Ridge', until you return to Cascina di Dagro and Dagro.