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Interactive Map 🔍 Tap on the different colored landmarks—each represents a specific climbing style—to explore the various climbing areas.

This is a Volunteer Project dedicated to Mapping 📚 and Promotion.
Discover who supports us at the DONATION WALL.

PLEASE NOTE: The information provided here is for reference only and may contain inaccuracies.
Direzione Verticale declines any responsibility for the use of the data provided.
Climbing is a potentially dangerous activity—practice only with proper experience and safety equipment.

Direzione Verticale is a non‑profit association that rejects profit as an end in itself and puts people, nature, and shared growth at the center. Recognized by the Department of Sport – Presidency of the Council of Ministers, by Sport e Salute, by CONI, and affiliated with CSEN (Centro Sportivo Educativo Nazionale), it operates with seriousness and transparency to promote the values of mountaineering and climbing.[web:1][web:6]

We are a group of enthusiasts and professionals united by a love for the mountains, rock, and wide open natural spaces. We believe that moral, ethical, mental, and physical evolution is an integral part of every climber’s journey. For us, nature and landscape are an endless and irreplaceable open‑air training ground, to be experienced and respected like our own home.[web:1][web:5]

We organize outings, courses, events, and social gatherings, both outdoor and indoor, to foster connections between people, groups, and local areas. Every activity is created with the goal of building community and making climbing more accessible, safe, and sustainable.[web:1]

To support the growth of climbing in Southern Italy — and especially in Campania — we have created a fund for sustainable bolting. All donations are fully allocated to the purchase and maintenance of equipment, which we provide freely and voluntarily to the community. In this way, every contribution, even a small one, becomes a concrete gesture of support for the sporting, social, and touristic development of the area.[web:1]

In addition, thanks to our Climbing Area interactive maps, we help enthusiasts and professionals discover and plan their adventures in a safe and informed way.[web:1]

Direzione Verticale is independent. It is not sponsored. It is free. We act for the common good, convinced that the mountains bring people together, elevate them, and teach them to look at the world from above — with respect and gratitude.[web:1]


  Founder: Francesco Galasso

I live in the shadow of Vesuvius, between the sea and the mountains I carry in my heart: the Lattari Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage site and home of my vertical soul. Here I have opened and established routes up to 8c at the crag, and I have experienced climbing in its purest form, pushing myself up to 7b in solo style.[web:1]

For years I have passionately worked on enhancing countless itineraries — modern and classic routes, bouldering and deep‑water solo sectors, multi‑pitch alpine lines, and approach trails — to make this region a reference point for those who love rock and adventure.[web:1]

I am an author for guidebooks and specialist magazines, an adventure photographer and videomaker, as well as a qualified technician for rope access work at height (Legislative Decree 8 July 2003, no. 235 — registration Lan A 1154, Lan P 1156, Lan Aggb 2746). I work as an instructor and trainer with AIFES and AKA, and I train climbing instructors and guides, in addition to serving as Head of the AICS/CONI and CSEN Mountain League (registration 4715139). With Direzione Verticale, I carry forward a dream that has become a mission: to spread a culture of conscious adventure, where self‑knowledge meets the freedom of nature and the joy of discovery.[web:1][web:7][web:10]

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