Rifugio Giuseppe Melano
| Rifugio Giuseppe Melano CAI hut category C |
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 The Rifugio Melano refuge |
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| location | Rocca Sbarua near Frossasco; Metropolitan City of Turin / Piedmont Region ; Valley location: Frossasco | |
| Mountain range | Cottian Alps / Italy | |
| Geographical location: | 44 ° 57 '59.9 " N , 7 ° 18' 3.9" E | |
| Altitude | 1060 m slm | |
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| owner | Club Alpino Italiano section Pinerolo | |
| Built | 2011 | |
| Construction type | hut | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-June to mid-September | |
| accommodation | 24 beds, 0 camps | |
| Web link | www.casacanada.eu | |
The Rifugio Giuseppe Melano ( 1060 m slm ) (also: Casa Canada) is a managed refuge in the Cottian Alps of the northern Italian metropolitan city of Turin / Piedmont region . The log cabin of the Club Alpino Italiano , built in 2011, belongs to the municipality of Frossasco and stands below the Rocca Sbarua climbing rock near Monte Freidour .
history
The first Rifugio Melano was built in 1971. In the run-up to the 2006 Winter Olympics , the plan for the new building was developed, which was completed in 2011 as 'Casa Canada'. Above the hut on the summit of Monte Freidour there has been a monument since 1994 in memory of the crew of a British transport plane that crashed in October 1944, loaded with weapons, ammunition and food for the partisans of the Italian Resistance .
Mountaineering
- Monte Freidour , 1445 m
literature
- Sabine Bade, Wolfram Mikuteit, Partisan Paths in Piedmont. Places and ways of resistance between Gran Paradiso and Monviso , Querwege Verlag, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-941585-05-8
