Monte Spinarda is the tripoint where the Ligurian comune of Calizzano and the Piedmontese ones of Garessio and Priola meet.

[3] The Anfiboliti di monte Spinarda, an outcrop of amphibolites recordered in the Italian official geologic map,[4] was named after the mountain.

The area surrounding Monte Spinarda was involved by wartime operations linked to the Italian campaigns of Napoleone Bonaparte and in 1799 the Frenche Army occupied its summit.

[5] The summit of Monte Spinarda can be easily reached on foot by Colle del Quazzo[6] or, with a longer walk, from Calizzano.

Its Ligurian side belongs to the SIC (Site of Community Importance) called Monte Spinarda - Rio Nero - code IT1323014.