Guidebooks for Italy

The Alps of Northern Italy provide many excellent rock climbing areas in particular the Dolomites with its long multi-pitch routes. However throughout the rest of Italy there are many excellent rock climbing areas that are predominately sport climbing on good quality limestone rock.

Map of the main rock climbing areas in Italy

Dolomites rock climbing guidebooksItalian Alps and Northern Italy rock climbing guidebooksNorthwest Italy rock climbing guidebooksSouthern Italy rock climbing guidebooksSardinia rock climbing guidebooksArco and Northeast Italy rock climbing guidebooks

Dolomites rock climbing guidebooks

The Dolomites offer big wall multi-pitch routes up to 800m long. There is an abundance of classic routes at all grades many of which can be reached with fairly short walks from the road. In terms of length of route relative to approach time this makes the Dolomites some of the best value rock climbing in the World.

Italian Alps rock climbing guidebooks 

Valtellina (Tellina Valley) and ValChiavenna (Chiavenna Valley) offer a huge variety of rock climbing, with long multi-pitch Alpine routes, sport climbing and bouldering.  Branching off Valtellina is the Val di Mello that has world class bouldering plus 1,000s of other routes.  Other rock climbing areas within the Italian Alps include Lake Como, the Orco Valley, Valsesia, the Aosta Valley and the Camonica Valley that all offer a great variety of single pitch sport routes and long multi-pitch routes.

Arco and northeast Italy rock climbing guidebooks

Arco at the northern edge of Lake Garda has an excellent reputation as a good quality rock climbing area, providing everything from single pitch sport routes to multi-pitch routes up to 1,400m high.  In the northeast of Italy around Trieste there are many excellent single sport climbing areas.

Finale and northwest Italy rock climbing guidebook

Finale Ligure is probably the most famous sport climbing area in Italy, with over 2,700 routes across a wide range of grades. Situated close by, near Genova, is the dramatic sea cliff climbing at Muzzerone that offers everything from single pitch routes on slabs to steep and overhanging multi-pitch routes. Further south is Tuscany, well known for its beautiful landscapes, medieval villages and its rich artistic legacy. Within this beautiful landscape there are many fantastic crags that offer a wide range of rock climbing, from single pitch sports to multi-pitch bolted routes up to 550m long on limestone rock.

Southern and Central Italy rock climbing guidebooks

Sicily offers the best and most diverse rock climbing in southern Italy. Just outside of the capital Palermo is Monte Pellegrino, which has everything from single pitch sports routes and multi-pitch bolted routes over 200m long. Near Trapani is the most famous seaside resort of San Vito lo Capo where a new sport climbing area has recently been developed. Nearly 4km of coastal cliffs have produced hundreds of quality limestone single pitch routes mainly in the easy to mid grades.

The southern mainland area of Italy has many climbing areas, in particularly around Naples with some fantastic sea cliff multi-pitch climbing.

All of these rock climbing guidebooks for Italy are in stock (unless otherwise stated) and are dispatched within 2 working days (usually 24 hours) from the UK.

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