The mule track begins a short distance from the last farmhouse in Magnavacche. In the past, this hamlet was a stopover and resting point for the seasonal migration of animals that descended into the plains from Val Brembilla and Val Taleggio in autumn, returning in spring. The route starts at an elevation of 408 meters and reaches a maximum altitude of 987 meters at the church of S. Antonio Abbandonato. The journey takes approximately 2 hours. For the most part, the path follows a comfortable mule track. After a short uphill section, it offers a beautiful view of the municipal sports field in Piana. Beyond that, the trail re-enters a dense, shaded forest. After a few hundred meters, a ramp leads to the ancient fortress of Malentrata. The path goes around the hamlet and continues on a short flat stretch, at the end of which there is a sign telling the history of the village.
Then the mule track climbs, grazing the ancient little church from 1730 dedicated to St. Martin and St. Philip Neri, an excellent architectural work in local stone. The mule track, leaving the Murachetto farmhouse to the left (“Murachet,” a place for stone extraction), crosses the Cà Zanardi district and climbs for about a hundred meters on one of the most beautiful paved sections of the hamlet, until it reaches Colle dei Gatti.
The patriarchal farmhouse from 1736 features particularly striking architecture: it has been described in various publications as the house with the most beautiful stone facade in the pre-Alps of Bergamo and Brescia. On the central building, the 1700 fresco of the Madonna and Child, St. Roch, and St. Sebastian stands out, even though it needs restoration. The path continues for a short stretch on the asphalt road, then returns to the mule track that leads to the Zuccone farmhouse, and then climbs back onto the road up to the Castignola plain, a location remembered for the numerous raids between the Guelphs of Val Brembana and the Ghibellines of Val Brembilla, in the period before the expulsion of the Brembilla residents in 1443. The itinerary, after crossing the district from 1583, ascends through a beech forest that leads to a flat section of the road up to the church of St. Anthony the Abandoned.
