Monte Resegone
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Monte Resegone or Resegone di Lecco (also Monte Serrada) is a mountain in the Bergamo
subrange of the Alps
, in northern Italy
. It has an elevation of 1,875 m and is located on the boarder of the provinces of Bergamo and Lecco.
It towers over the city of Lecco
and the southern end of Lake Como
. The mountain is so named because of its resemblance to a saw (in the local dialect resegare means "to saw" ) as it has eleven summits of similar height. The highest of these summits, Punta Cermenati, reaches 1,875 m above sea level and towers 1500m above the valley below.
The mountain is popular with both hikers and climbers with many maintained paths and Via ferrata
s as well as much opportunity for rock climbing on the south and west walls of the northern summits.
Most routes start from the villages of Morterone
, Piani d'Erna and Erve
and ascend the various canalones (canyons) that lie between the different summits. Just below the Punta Cermenati at 1860 meters sits the Luigi Azzoni mountain hut.
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni
made Resegone (which he called Monte Serrada) the backdrop for some of the scenes in his novel The Betrothed
(in Italian I Promessi sposi).
Bergamo Alps
The Bergamo Alps are a mountain range in the Italian Alps which forms part of the Central Eastern Alps. They are located in northern Lombardy and named after the city Bergamo, south of the mountains....
subrange of the Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
, in northern Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. It has an elevation of 1,875 m and is located on the boarder of the provinces of Bergamo and Lecco.
It towers over the city of Lecco
Lecco
Lecco is a town of c. 47,760 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como...
and the southern end of Lake Como
Lake Como
Lake Como is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146 km², making it the third largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore...
. The mountain is so named because of its resemblance to a saw (in the local dialect resegare means "to saw" ) as it has eleven summits of similar height. The highest of these summits, Punta Cermenati, reaches 1,875 m above sea level and towers 1500m above the valley below.
The mountain is popular with both hikers and climbers with many maintained paths and Via ferrata
Via ferrata
A via ferrata or klettersteig is a mountain route which is equipped with fixed cables, stemples, ladders, and bridges. The use of these allows otherwise isolated routes to be joined to create longer routes which are accessible to people with a wide range of climbing abilities...
s as well as much opportunity for rock climbing on the south and west walls of the northern summits.
Most routes start from the villages of Morterone
Morterone
Morterone is a comune in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km northeast of Milan and about 7 km northeast of Lecco. For its population of 38 persons, was considered, relevant the resident population, the smaller of any comune in Italy – in an...
, Piani d'Erna and Erve
Erve
Erve is a comune in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km northeast of Milan and about 5 km southeast of Lecco. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 758 and an area of 6.2 km²....
and ascend the various canalones (canyons) that lie between the different summits. Just below the Punta Cermenati at 1860 meters sits the Luigi Azzoni mountain hut.
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature...
made Resegone (which he called Monte Serrada) the backdrop for some of the scenes in his novel The Betrothed
The Betrothed
The Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language....
(in Italian I Promessi sposi).