In Alta Val Baganza between the villages of Cassio, Chiastre and Casaselvatica it is possible to admire the Salti del Diavolo, a rock outcrop that leaves amazed those who find themselves walking roads and paths that pass in the area.

They are mighty spires, towers, rocky peaks that emerge abruptly for tens of meters from the surrounding terrain, dominate the forest and can be admired even from a distance. They are arranged in a ridge that crosses the valley and winds for 5 km crossing the Baganza stream, for the locals they still represent the concrete proof of a medieval legend.

The Devil’s Leaps are the visible part above ground of an ancient sedimentary formation, it is said to be of Cretaceous age (80 million years).

The genesis is attributable to an underwater landslide of pebbles and sand, which would have produced these formations in the subsoil in a vast area that goes from Monferrato to the Modena Apennines and that here in Val Baganza has its most spectacular outcrop.

The reason why in this area they can be admired so clearly is due to differential erosion: in thousands of years the Devil’s Leaps, resistant and compact, have resisted compared to the other sedimentations around that have collapsed and disappeared.