Campo dei Fiori, which, by stretching out in length, protects the city and its roundabouts from the cold northern influences; which all along its southern slope is home to a vegetation of great value— partly natural, partly planted—and fits hotels, luxury residences and common homes; which reaches out south-eastwards into the Sacred Mountain, with its ancient hamlet, the Monastery of the Cloistered Sisters, the Sanctuary, the famous Sacred Way going down from Chapel to Chapel to the First; with its streets, the cable railway, the trails, the meadows, the flowers.
Even the steeper northern face has its own charm, overlooking Valcuvia, Brinzio, Cabiaglio, Orino, with its shady, dark woods, the precipitous gorges, the evident rocky crown framing the peak profile, and developing into powerful rocky towers in its most western section, right under the summit of Mount Three Crosses. In conclusion, this is a naturalistic asset to preserve, a heritage to protect with the utmost and wisest care.It is exactly on those towers that, starting from the 1920s-30s and with an enthusiasm that became explosive during the 1950s, a handful of particularly passionate climbers were able to meet their match with training and marking out new climbing routes—from the easiest to the most difficult ones—not as an end in itself but rather in preparation for more important ascents all over the Alpine range, from Mount Rose to Val Masino and Bondasca, up to the Dolomites and Mont Blanc. Pinardi, Minazzi, Cristofaro, Broggi, Bianchi, Bisaccia, mentioned chronologically, are only a few of the names of those early aficionados of these rocks and who continued to practice high-level mountaineering a little everywhere, writing the history of Varese mountaineering and of CAI-Varese, which became ever richer in values over the years