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Santo Stefano and the Aveto valley

“Today I crossed the most beautiful valley of the world.”
Ernest Hemingway - 1945

Santo Stefano is 1017 meters high on the sea level, far from the most traditional touristic tours of Liguria, at the confluence of three provinces: Genova, Piacenza and Parma.
The wide valley where the town is located is surrounded by the highest mountains of the region, (the Maggiorasca Mountain, 1799 m., and the Bue Mountain, 1777 m.) and its characteristics are the pastures, the beech and coniferous woods, the lakes and the mountain streams.
During summer the weather is pleasant and invites to follow the tracks crossing meadows, fields and woods, to conquer the top of the mountains; even in winter, with snow-shoes, it is charming to discover a white and silent landscape.