ITA-059 - Colle Prà Martino

REPETTI M A U R O - 10-12-2022:
Climbed the 6 km side from Villar Perosa (522 mt) ; climb start from municipio square where u find the statue of Giovanni Agnelli, the chief of the Agnelli Family (Fiat and Juventus soccer) that here have done their holidays home after Turin; here lie their super Villa and in local cemetery - u pass sideaway in the climb - there are the family grave ; here comes the Juventus team for pre-season retreat .
Climb is nice, narrow and quiet, zero traffic in winter period.
On the top lie the abandoned hotel built by Agnelli family, very popular in the from '20 to '60 ; now it looks like a place of ghosts (see my photos).
The climb of Pra Martino was climbed in the Giro d'Italia on 19 May 2009 and the Tour de France passed through Pra Martino in the 2011 , during the stage Gap-Pinerolo, won by the Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen.

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BRUNETTI Gabriele - 26-06-2022:
Discovered by Giro in 2016 and combined with muro di Principi d'Acaja (Colle San Maurizio) in the historical centre of Pinerolo, a town devoted to cycling since the times of the great performance of Fausto Coppi at Cuneo-Pinerolo.
Pramartino is a cal dominating Pinerolo and Villar Perosa. 5 km tough from S. Pietro Val lemina a village at 3 km north. The descent requires caution as the road become very narrow.

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