Campocatino is well worth a visit, its evocative glacial plateau, with its strange shape, resembling a basin. Since the dawn of time, water and ice have shaped the terrain, creating today an unusual, splendid, and vast meadow at the base of a sheer rock face.
An evocative environmental context where shepherds once brought their flocks in the summer. Many of the characteristic stone houses where the shepherds stayed bear witness to this.
The view you'll enjoy on a hike to Campocatino is undoubtedly breathtaking. From above, you can even see Lake Vagli, which almost entirely nestles between the green mountains.
From Campocatino a path starts that allows you to see the suggestive hermitage of San Viano.
In the 80s, Campocatino was in the international limelight for a long time, in fact due to its unusual characteristics it was chosen as a location to build a real western village, complete with Saloon, classic Store, stables for horses and office with sheriff 's prison, to shoot the film
" My West "
Directed by Giovanni Veronesi, actors Harvey Keitel, Leonardo Pieraccioni and the very young Alessia Marcuzzi with other actors and many extras including authentic American Indians.
With the extraordinary participation of David Boowie.
