Varaita Valley Trekking: Stage 3 Frassino - Becetto

From the square in Frassino we follow the paved carriage road in the direction of Chiaronto and turn left to Borgata Peyracchia. The mule track leads us to Borgata Serre Superiore. Passing under the porch of the chapel of San Sebastiano, we cross the different hamlets always keeping to the right and reach the shrine of Madonna degli Angeli. Just before the building, on the right, the mule track starts, which in a short time takes us to the hamlet of Chiaronto, passing through the hamlet of Borgione. Past the chapel of St. Anthony we cross the hamlet of Chiaronto. Leaving the votive pillar and stone fountain on the right, we follow the mule track uphill to the hamlet Ruera. Still following the path with the ruins of the Ruera hamlet behind us, after a few meters, we take the path on the right that climbs in the direction of the Colletto di Rore meires. Past the pylon and before the fountain we take the path on the left downhill and follow it until the Meira Paula sign with a fork on the right. This is followed by a flat section to the meire where the refuge of the same name stands, which can be used as an inter-tap post, and ends the forest track coming from the Rore valley. Following the same for about 400 meters, we find on the left, just before an obvious clearing, the path that, crossing a beautiful beech forest, takes us to the locality of Sabbione. Following the paved carriage road almost level for a few hundred meters, we leave out the fork on the left downhill that leads to Rore and, passing the houses of Vallone Ricchiardi and the chapel of S. Stefano, we reach the locality Vallone Rostagno, where the road ends. Crossing the partly ruined village, we take on the right, following the signs, the slightly downhill path that crosses the Combe stream at a stone bridleway. Going up the opposite slope and reaching the votive pillar of the "Gardetta," we continue on the level path to reach the church of S.Antonio di Dragoniere. Having crossed the hamlet we take the asphalt road on the right uphill in the direction of Serre and immediately leave it on the left, skirting the wall downstream of the cemetery in the direction of the Rio Cantarane stream. Having crossed the small stream we continue uphill to shortly reach the locality of Becetto.