Montagnazza
{{short description|Mountain in Italy}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Montagnazza
| photo = Montagnassa_da_versante_sud_Roubata_Boe.jpg
| photo_caption = The mountain as seen from the Rôcàs
| elevation_m = 892
| elevation_ref =Carta Tecnica Regionale raster 1:10.000 (vers.3.0) published by the Regione Piemonte, year 2007
| prominence_m = 61
| parent_peak = Monte Pietraborga
| range = Cottian Alps
| listing =
| map = Italy
| range_coordinates =
| map_caption = Location in Italy
| coordinates = {{coord|45.0015921|N|7.4279504|E|type:mountain_region:IT_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref=
| first_ascent = ancestral
| easiest_route = hiking from Campetto (Piossasco)
}}
The Montagnazza (or Montagnassa{{cite book | publisher = Effatà | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mTatbvs_xrMC&dq=%22montagnassa%22&pg=PA15 | page = 15 | first = Pier Giorgio | last = Debernardi | isbn = 9788874021345 | year = 2004 | title = David. Una vita donata | chapter = Tutto comincia! | accessdate = 2022-07-16 | language = it }}) is a mountain in the Cottian Alps, Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy. It is located in the comune of Piossasco.
Features
File:Panorama dalla Montagnassa sfondo San Giorgio Roubata Boe.jpg
The mountain stands on the water divide between Chisola Valley (South) and a brief valley opened towards the Po plain. Its Western ridge splits after an unnamed elevation at 677 m. One of its branches goes down to Colle di Damone and follows towards Truc le Creste, while the second branch heads to Monte Pietraborga. The South-Eastern ridge of the Montagnazza, after a reaching the Colle di Prè, reaches at first the Rôcàs and later the Monte San Giorgio. Administratively the Montagnazza belongs to the comune of Piossasco. Its summit area is marked by a cairn and, not far from it, by a metal pole. On the Southern slopes of the mountain, at some hundred metres from the summit, stands the Pera Luvera, a massive rock outcrop bearing a votive chapel on its top.
Geology
The Montagnazza is mainly made of ovardite,{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=h58MAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Truc+le+Creste%22&pg=PA385 | page = 385 | language = it |title = Bollettino | volume = 23 | year = 1892 | author = AA.VV. (Regio ufficio geologico d'Italia) | publisher = Comitato geologico d'Italia | accessdate= 12 April 2022 }} a peculiar type of prasinite.{{cite book | url = https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/prasiniti_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/ | publisher = Istituto Treccani | language = it | title = Enciclopedia Italiana | year = 1935 | first = Federico | last = Millosevich | chapter = Prasiniti | accessdate = 27 July 2022 }}
History
At 11:38 a.m. of December the 5th 1987, on a ridge of the Mntagnazza shaded by fog, a fatal plane crash occurred to the "Cessna 172" on which was travelling Pier Cesare Baretti, former director of Tuttosport and soccer manager,{{cite web | author = Massimo Cecchi| title = Ti ricordi Lorenzo? | website = Museofiorentina.it| date = 28 October 2013| url=http://www.museofiorentina.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1269:ti-ricordi-lorenzo&catid=84:news&Itemid=198 | language = it }} who died at the age of 48.{{cite book | language = it |title = Calciatori ‒ La raccolta completa Panini 1961-2012| publisher =Panini| year =2012| page=6| volume= 4 (1987-1988)}}
Access to the summit
The summit of the Montagnazza can be accessed on foot without climbing skills. It can be reached starting from the Colletta di Cumiana by a footpath following the Sangone/Chisola water divide or, with a shorter walk, from the village of Campetto (Piossasco).{{cite web | url = http://www.mountainhall.it/2022/04/28/tra-montagnassa-e-roubata-boe/ | language = it | author = Filippo Ceragioli | title = Tra Montagnassa e Roubata Boe | date = 28 April 2022 | publisher = mountainhall.it | accessdate = 27 July 2022 }}
Maps
- 6 - Pinerolese Val Sangone, 1:25.000 scale, publisher: Fraternali, Ciriè
- 17 - Torino Pinerolo e Bassa Val di Susa, 1:50.000 scale, publisher: IGC - Istituto Geografico Centrale, Torino
References
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