681 - Colle Braida

REPETTI M A U R O - 11-09-2022:
Climbed red track from Giaveno (Turin), a nice town at 511 mt altitude with 16k citizens.
At a roundabout start the climb, a nice and quiet road, very sunny and with good tarmac.
The side from Avigliana (black track) is nicer and wilder, all in the forest (and in the shadow) ; is better cos you climb with the view of the magnificent Sacra di San Michele, a massive Abbey on a cliff.
Located on an imposing base of 26 meters at 960 meters above sea level, is visible form many kms, and is the symbolic monument of the entire Piemonte.
From Giaveno, after reach the Colle Braida, u have to descent 2 km ca, for the park of the Abbey ;
I cycled then the 640 mt long of the pedestrian road to the entrance (av slope 4,4 %), with a super view on Turin and beginning of Susa valley.

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