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Lower Peirafica – Forte Margheria loop from Castérino

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Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Provence

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Nice

Tende

Lower Peirafica – Forte Margheria loop from Castérino

Hard

4.8

(34)

139

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Lower Peirafica – Forte Margheria loop from Castérino

03:22

31.1km

1,090m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 26, 2026

Tips

Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 18.5 km for 374 m

Waypoints

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Bus stop

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3.22 km

Stone Arch Bridge Over the Valmasque Stream

Highlight • Bridge

From this arched stone bridge you can watch the Valmasque stream flow below you and cross a landscape so suggestive it seems surreal.

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5.18 km

Tunnel of the Route de la Maglia

Highlight • Structure

I can recommend the tour through the Alps to everyone.

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7.93 km

Lower Peirafica

Highlight • Natural Monument

Along the road that crosses the Bassa di Peirafica you can contemplate a grandiose landscape and observe large larches and specimens of mountain pine and mountain pine.

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9.57 km

Asile Arnaldi

Alpine Hut

13.9 km

Forte Margheria

Highlight • Historical Site

Forte Margheria is part of the Colle di Tenda fortification complex and enjoys a very panoramic position.

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15.2 km

La Colletta

Mountain Pass

15.8 km

Col de Tende Hairpin Road

Highlight • Mountain Pass

The Tenda hill is famous for its fortifications and for the "road of 50 hairpin bends", which through the hill connects the Vermenaia valley in Italy to the Roia valley in France.

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16.5 km

Fort Central

Highlight • Historical Site

The Fort Central is a former Italian military fort intended for the defence of the Col de Tende, on the French Italian border.

Along the Grande Alpine Traverse there are …

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18.1 km

Chalet Le Marmotte

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Reachable by the asphalted road to Colle di Tenda, it is a fundamental support point for many excursions and bike rides in the upper Vermenangna Valley!

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27.8 km

Quadrivio poco sotto la baisse by Peyrafique

Highlight • Other

Towards Casterino on a comfortable dirt road and old asphalt (NW), towards the Tenda hill (NE), towards Tenda (S) or towards Casterino on a more challenging dirt road (SW)

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31.1 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

27.9 km

2.88 km

218 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

15.9 km

9.82 km

4.04 km

1.10 km

199 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 26 June

23°C

14°C

43 %

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Comments

September 18, 2025,Limone 1400 - Casterino AR

To the km indicated AR, approximately 6 km more must be added.. (due to Garmin problems)

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Lower Peirafica – Forte Margheria loop from Castérino

Stone Arch Bridge Over the Valmasque Stream

Tunnel of the Route de la Maglia

Lower Peirafica

Forte Margheria

Col de Tende Hairpin Road

Fort Central

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