Finally I reached Monte Valoria. At 1,229m, it's probably the highest point from here to Rome, and a stunning panorama, looking back towards the north first. (Oh, and there's that power line again, and a motorway and tunnel if you look closely).
Then steeply down through beech wood, the floor adrift with wild garlic,
and so to the Cisa Pass where the Via enters Tuscany.
That wound through yet more beech wood, the path now clearly marked at every twist, morphing into conifer, and eventually came out at the Paso del Righetto.
Then about 3km of very steep mule track down into the valley, and across an alarmingly swaying suspension bridge, before a final steep climb up to the village of Previdè, and the Eremo Gioioso, (jolly hermitage) which is a beautifully restored stone building directly on the Via (with a pilgrim oasis), where I have been superbly hosted, to which I must return, but must also leave tomorrow.
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