Rifugio Marinelli
Rifugio Marinelli and Monte Cogliàns
Dining room
Rooms with 2 beds (bank bed)
Rooms from 4 to 6 beds
(all bank beds)
Room with 14 beds
(bank beds)
Vista dal Marinelli verso Est
on the way up to the Marinelli
from Mt. Croce Carnico
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Discover tranquil mountain
trails and stay overnight in modern well equipped Rifugi (Mountain Huts).
Try the local gastronomy and the good wines from our Region. A truly
unforgettable experience.
Let us open the trails for you and plan your arrangements. Come and
discover the beauty of the Carnic Alps, with our bothanical and Alpine
Guides. Discover also very
interesting
geological theme.
Located
in the North east of Italy, bordering the southernmost
Region of Austria (Carinthia), the
Carnic alps are the natural divide between
Austria
and Italy.
Mt.Cogliàns is, with its 2.780 meters (9121
ft), the highest mountain in the
Carnic Alps. About 2 hours walk from the Marinelli. From the summit, with a cross and a bell
on the top, on a clear day, a beautiful view
of the entire Carnic Alps, from the Dolomites to the Triglav (Slovenia),
Grossglockner (Austria), not to forget the Adriatic Sea. The mountain is very famous also for the battles that took
place here in World War I.
The Rifugio Marinelli is open from July to September
and offers accommodation in comfortable multibedded rooms. Lunch and
Dinner from local gastronomy is served at reasonable prices.The rifugio
stands on grassy
slopes under Mount Floriz and overlooking the Cogliàns group.
Built in
1901; after several restaurations, is now a comfortable mountain hut that can
accommodate about 50 persons in: 2 x 2 bedded rooms, 2 x 4
bedded rooms, 4 x 6 bedded rooms and a large room with
14 bunk beds. Toilette and Showers available on each Floor.(All rooms
have bunk beds)
The
Marinelli is the ideal departure point to ascend the Mt Cogliàns, and other
excursions:
Mt Crostis, Pizzo Collina, Creta della Chianevate, the Volaia Lake
via the sentiero Spinotti (green itiner.)
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The Mt. Cogliàns group
Mt. Cogliàns (South side)
South east view from the Marinelli
( Timau - Mt. Croce Carnico)
Western side view from the Marinelli
(normale way from Collina)
North eastern view from the Marinelli
(Creta Chianevate and
Creta di Collina)
How
to get there - Airports nearby:
Scheduled or
Low cost Flights from:
UK, Germany, Cekia, Hungary, France,
Denmark, to Triest Airport.
More flights to Klagenfurt(A); Ljubliana (SLO); Venice (I); Treviso(I).
About 2 hours transfer from Trieste Airport to Collina / Rifugio Tolazzi.
Easy drive on the motorway as far as Tolmezzo. Normal well kept roads
from Tolmezzo via Ovaro - Forni Avoltri - Collina - Rifugio Tolazzi.
Wide FREE parking available.
From here there is a approxe 2 hours walk (Yellow itinerary on the
map) to the Marinelli.
Torre and Creta della Chianevate
(Creta Chianevate and
Creta di Collina)
View from the sentiero Spinotti
(Green itinerary on the map)
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Car
or Coach Transfer from Airports to
Collina.
The cheapest way is to Rent a car at the Airport:
Click here for Car Rentals
For groups we offer Minibusses from 16 to 50 seater deluxe Coaches.
Quotation on request.
The Carnic Alps (Alpi
Carniche in Italian, are a large mountain range in the Southern Alps.
The Highest point is the Mt. Cogliàns.
The geology of the Carnic Alps is very complex.
All the area was covered by seas twice for long periods of time. The
first of these seas covered today's Carnic Alps in the Ordovicium Age.
Sediments were formed and 440 million years ago a first "event"
triggered the first build-up of mountains in the area. A porphyry plate
was pushed over the sedimentary rocks. Remains of this plate can still
be seen along the main ridge.
Erosion did away with most of the built-up mountains. Some 350 - 400
million years ago the second sea started to cover the area and overall
it lasted 200 million years. This was the so-called Thetis Sea which
also is responsible for the creation of the Dolomites. Huge coral atolls
were formed the remainders of which are the mountain groups of the
Dolomites. 200 million years ago the final formation of the Alps
began. And here the Carnic Alps Area again was special. The
mountains were folded upwards, but this action took place in the
form of waves which often overtook each other. With the waves "breaking"
over the fault line the layering of the rocks became more and more
complicated. Suddenly (thinking of it on a geological scale) old layers
were sandwiched between younger ones, sometimes even layers of the same
age several 100m apart with layers of all ages in between. And this is
what you still can find in the Carnic Alps today. The area around the
highest summit, Mt. Cogliàns (2782m) is the most complex, and thus most
interesting.
South view from the Marinelli (Mt. Crostis)
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