"The trail for everyone"

After admiring the evocative landscape characterized by the steep mountainsides of the Julian Prealps, you enter the forest adjacent to the Park Visitor Center and follow a ring path, equipped with educational panels. In this way visitors can learn about the history, fauna and flora of the protected area and in particular the Musi Mountains that overlook Pian dei Ciclamini.

The path is suitable for everyone, both for the modest slopes and a track suitable for strollers and wheelchairs, and for the presence of guide rope and wheel guard that facilitate the orientation of visually impaired people. Information tables along the route with special tactile sections and explanations in Braille characters.

The Park of the Julian Prealps has also adopted the modern Sesamonet system. This advanced technology allows the visually impaired to walk the route with a smart stick that transmits position signals continuously. By means of a dedicated mobile phone, the user can receive information from an audioguide relating to the place where he is at that time.

HOW TO ARRIVE
Highway:
From the A4-A23 Venezia-Palmanova-Tarvisio take the exit Udine Nord (coming from Venezia-Palmanova) or exit at Gemona del Friuli (coming from Tarvisio).
Main road:
From Gemona del Friuli and Udine take the SS13 "Pontebbana" towards Tarcento-Alta Val Torre. Cross Tarcento and continue along the SS646 "di Uccea" towards Alta Val Torre-Lusevera-Slovenia. After about 17 km you reach Pian dei Ciclamini.

Species to be observed:
Along the path, which brings you into the woods, you will find mainly some forest passerines (chaffinch, bulfinch, great tit, marsh tit, blackbird, song thrush). Outside the forest, near the educational trail, you can also observe birds of rare natural interest such as the golden eagle and griffin and other less rare as the buzzard. The area is also home to several mammals (squirrel, fox, badger, roe deer, wild boar) among which the sporadic presence of the brown bear that sometimes from nearby Slovenia invades the Alta Val Torre.

Practicability with stroller: Yes
Possible recreational area: benches and tables along the trail and picnic areas in its immediate vicinity.
Presence of picnic areas: yes
Toilets along the way: Toilets, also accessible to the disabled, at the beginning of the trail at the Rifugio escursionistico Pian dei Ciclamini.
For the disabled: Yes
Changing table: At the beginning of the trail, at the Trattoria "Ai Ciclamini".

Not to be missed:
The suggestive Grotta Nuova in Villanova delle Grotte (currently closed), village of Lusevera. The cave is open to the public (information and booking website: www.grottedivillanova.it ), but is not suitable for strollers and wheelchairs. And in Villanova delle Grotte you can take the road that leads in 4.5 km to Monte Bernadia (850 m) and after another 3 km to the church of Madonna della Pace in the village of Useunt. In good weather some tracks, suitable for stroller and wheelchair, give a wonderful panorama on the Friulian plain and allow you to admire various species of birds of prey while hunting.

Departure: Visitor Centre "Pian dei Ciclamini" (795 m altitude) in the village of Lusevera
Arrival: The trail is circular and therefore the place of departure and arrival are the same.
Route length: about 0.6 km.