DRAFT — awaiting Kevin's confirm-notes below before publish. Part of the Cannobio area — see the Cannobio hub for the base itself.

Italy · Lake Maggiore · Val Cannobina

Two villages, two different climbs — a winding one up, a steep one out of town.

Falmenta is a winding 3km climb with a drop back down the other side; Crealla’s climb is shorter but steeper, "especially when leaving the town."

Route data (from Strava): 36.8km, 1,078m of climbing, max grade 49.8% — the shortest of the three named Cannobio climbs, but with the steepest single ramp of any of them.

The route, from Kevin's own GPS track

Real GPS route map of this ride from Cannobio
The actual recorded route, plotted from Kevin's own Strava GPX/FIT data onto a real OpenStreetMap base.

On the climb

A tight hairpin bend with a guardrail on the narrow road climbing out of the Cannobino valley above Cannobio
One of the hairpins on the climb — narrow road, guardrail and not much room for a car to pass.
Looking straight down at a white-water stream running through a narrow rocky gorge, seen from a bridge
Looking down from a bridge into the gorge — the stream you're climbing away from.

Both were taken on the 13 May 2026 ride itself, a couple of hours in.

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Which bend or bridge is each photo — worth naming the spot?
  • Which of Falmenta or Crealla is the steeper one in practice?

Source: Kevin's Strava export (13 May 2026), real GPS track, plus 2 photos taken during the ride.