Highlight (Segment) • Summit
Punta La Marmora summit
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Parco nazionale del Golfo di Orosei e del Gennargentu
Monti del Gennargentu
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JakobusPilger
November 5, 2024
Hiking
It may not be obvious that Sardinia's highest mountain is crowned by an imposing summit cross, but it seems completely natural to the mountain hiker. A base made of natural stone from the surrounding area forms the lower level of this small sacred monument. A round column bears the Latin inscription "Ave Crux spes unica" (loosely translated "Hail [holy] cross, [you] our only hope") and continues further up - almost seamlessly - into the longitudinal beam of the cross. Like many other summit crosses, it is comparatively simple in its design and has no corpus, but is certainly dignified.
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Distance 2.56 km
Uphill 170 m
Downhill 10 m
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