SkyWalk Glass Platform in Lombardy Sparks Protest Over Alpine Cementification

Fatti principali

• SkyWalk is a cantilevered glass platform planned at 2,585 meters altitude between Ponte di Legno and Vermiglio, on the border with the autonomous province of Trento.
• It would offer a 360-degree panorama over the Camonica and Sole valleys and is part of a ring path at Monticelli.
• Società Impianti Turistici (Sit) is developing the project along with a new Leitner cable car, a mountain hut, and artificial snow infrastructure in the Pontedilegno-Tonale area.
• Sit is 54% private, 40% Fondazione Alta Valle Camonica, and the remainder held by municipalities and the Province of Brescia.
• Construction has started, with delivery expected between 2027 and 2028.
• Mountain Wilderness Italia and Italia Nostra are demanding a halt and public debate, calling the project 'a scar on Passo Paradiso.'
• Avs has submitted a question to Trentino governor Maurizio Fugatti on environmental permits, costs, and impacts.
• Mountain Wilderness president Luigi Casanova cites the 1991 Peace proposal by Alexander Langer for a European Park of the Central Alps; writer Marco Albino Ferrari advocates minimal trail maintenance instead.