Zegna Panoramic Road – Bocchetta di Margosio loop from Borgosesia

Zegna Panoramic Road – Bocchetta di Margosio loop from Borgosesia

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Zegna Panoramic Road – Bocchetta di Margosio loop from Borgosesia

03:37

63.5km

1,390m

Road cycling

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 23, 2026

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After 32 m for 222 m

After 12.5 km for 94 m

After 17.5 km for 100 m

After 27.0 km for 115 m

After 63.3 km for 222 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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13.4 km

Fila Wool Mill

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FILA, it is Fratelli Fila, founded in 1911 in Coggiola in the Biella textile district. Originally it was a wool mill specializing in wool processing; from that textile activity, the sportswear brand known worldwide today developed.

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13.4 km

Colle di Noveis

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Noveis is part of the municipality of Caprile, in the province of Biella, in the Piedmont region.

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18.7 km

Zegna Panoramic Road

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The Panoramica Zegna is the road that opens access from the plain to the "high lands" where contact with nature is increasingly authentic.

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27.0 km

Bocchetta di Margosio

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Beautiful place for a stopover.

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31.5 km

View from Bielmonte

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Bielmonte (1500 meters) is the Oasi Zegna ski resort. Overlooking the Po Valley, it is panoramic and always exposed to the sun.

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31.7 km

Bielmonte

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I used to go there as a child and went back to this magnificent place by bike.

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49.8 km

Parish of Ponzone

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Superb church located in the center of Ponzone.

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51.7 km

Fabbrica della Ruota

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The wool mill was built by the Zignone brothers in 1878, in the Vallefredda area, a short distance from the confluence of the Scoldo stream with the Ponzone torrent and near the Biella-Borgosesia provincial road. The business was initially run by Pietro, Giovanni and Carlo. When Pietro died in 1891, only Carlo continued to run the business, but, alone, he was unable to get beyond 1896.
In that year, the factory was rented to Anselmo Giletti, who installed a spinning mill there to serve the important Ponzone complex. In 1900, Carlo Zignone died, leaving behind Felicita Tonella as a widow and ten orphaned children. Only in 1912 did the brothers Umberto, Oreste and Rinaldo Zignone regain possession of the factory and form a partnership with the Ferla brothers, owners of the homonymous wool mill in Polto.
After the partnership with the Ferlas ended in 1918, the Zignone brothers independently managed the company under the name "Lanificio Fratelli Zignone fu Carlo".
The flood of 1927 caused serious damage to the factory and in 1931 Umberto Zignone died. Oreste and Rinaldo restarted production in partnership with their collaborators, such as the designer Ugo Rista and the sales representative Armando Garlanda. "Zignone Garlanda & Rista" was dissolved in 1937. In 1949 Garlanda also left the scene and once again the brothers Oreste and Rinaldo, and their nephew Ermanno, son of Umberto, returned to managing on their own with a promising start.
The 1950s, however, were a difficult period and many small companies could not keep up: this also happened to the Zignone brothers' wool mill. In 1966, the entrepreneur Carlo Beretta purchased the Vallefredda buildings without however resuming the activity.
In 1991, Carlo Beretta donated the industrial complex to DocBi-Centro Studi Biellesi after, in 1984, what had by then become the "Fabbrica della ruota" had hosted the exhibition "Industrial Archaeology in Valsessera and Valle Strona", tracing the path of the association and anticipating the new destiny of the former Lanificio Zignone.
Today, the "Fabbrica della ruota", a lively cultural center, is included in the ecomuseum system of the Province of Biella. Source: municipality of Pray

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63.5 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

60.8 km

1.84 km

999 m

Surfaces

61.1 km