Badger Trail

The Badger Trail is named after one of the locations it crosses: Tassera valley, the ancient Vallis taxeria, renowned for the numberless badger dens in its most hidden ravines. The badger is a widespread mammal both in Roero – the perfect environment for badger mostly underground lifestyle in quiet thick woods – and increasingly in the Rocche area. The Badger Trail offers hikers a wide landscape variety.

The path starts from piazza San Martino. After a long plain section, offering Roero hilltop villages views such as Monteu Roero castle, Cisterna d’Asti and the hills background, i.e., the Alps chain. The path runs along numberless vineyards – historical ones, mainly, that since the Middle Ages have found their natural habitat on these hills. The path goes on across shady woods and vineyards in Valdolmo area. In Valdolmo a mastodon fossil femur (thigh bone) was found (mastodon is a large elephant-like, herbivorous mammal from the Pleistocene era). The view goes further to include “acrobatic” vineyards, clung on steep slopes along the hill ridge: the hill is still intact and silent.

The ring trail ends after a breath-taking ascent to Vezza d’Alba along the ancient sternìa (Piedmont dialect for cobbled paving).
 

TRAIL AUDIO GUIDE: to make use of the audio guide with integrated gpx track, you can download the free app Izi.Travel on your smartphone and activate the geolocation: in this way an automatic narration will be activated in the points of interest telling stories and curiosities.
Audio guide pre-viewable also on browser by clicking here.