Short Escape Gravel Tuscany

by Cicloposse

Region

Tuscany

Duration

5 days

Guided Status

Self-Guided

Difficulty

Moderate

D-Score™

N/A - Unknown

Overview

Adventure Unpaved & Escape the Crowds. Val d’Orcia to Siena on gravel road. This tour is a short escape - 4 nights in case you do not have entire week or you want just to test gravel biking in the legendary white roads of Tuscany.

Daily Ride Schedule

Accommodation & Services

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Hotel

What's Included

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Accommodation arrangements

Bike rental

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About the Tuscany

Read the Tuscany cycling guide

EUR 1190

per person

Go to Provider

Why Choose This Tour?

Shadow the hilly path of L'Eroica, Tuscany's internationally recognized vintage bike race.
Experience the serenity of the Tuscan countryside and savour the flavours of authentic pasta fresca.
Explore the undulating white gravel roads of Tuscany—the famed strade bianche—and immerse your self in Italy’s most classic cycling local.
Most people choose to ride gravel to escape traffic and get off the beaten roads, exploring the hill town tahta made Tuscany so famous.
Pienza & Montefollonico: Meet & Greet in Pienza, the purest renaissance town in the world, for welcome and bike fitting.
Pienza the “perfect town” is a remarkable example of Renaissance-era town planning.
If you have even the least appreciation for beautiful architecture, it is a treat to stroll around its cobblestone streets.
If you arrive in time there will be a First test bike ride to Palazzo Massaini, Montefollonico Montepulciano & Bagno Vignoni: Spring brings red poppy blossoms to the vibrant green wheat fields of Tuscany, and nowhere is the bloom more brilliant than the hills of the Val d’Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
As we pedal through these corridors of proud cypress trees, the scenery may look familiar from such films as Gladiator and The English Patient.
Follow the gravel tracks off the beaten path through a timeless slice of Tuscany.
You'll come to Montepulciano, the jewel of southern Tuscany, full of Renaissance palaces.
After relaxing a while, you will face a incredible breathtaking yet challenge gravel section that bring you to Monticchiello, the quintessential Tuscan hill town.
back in the valley, next destination is Bagno Vignoni, a thermal spa town that dates back to Roman times, Madonna di Vita Leta chapel is on the way back to Pienza Pieve a Salti to Brunello Land: To get from Pienza to Montalcino we select the sections of Eroica called Lucignano d'asso and Pieve A Salti.
You leave Pienza and after 6 km on paved road you will take with white road toward Cosona and reach the little hamlet of Lucignano - a caffe espresso at little shop emporio - is a must.
Once you reach the paved road you ride only one km and start the other Eroica gravel section Pieve a Salti - so beautiful landscape.
9 km up and down in the rural countryside!
arrive in Buonconvento by lunch time.
Now you have to face the climb to the famed wine town of Montalcino.
A total of 10 km: 5 on paved and 5 km on gravel all through vineyards and wineries.
Once in town we strongly suggest to visit the fortress and admire the breath-taking view of the entire valley you've just biked.
At dinner tonight reward yourself with a glass of Brunello!
Castiglion del Bosco & Siena: L’Eroica—meaning “The Heroic”—is a celebration of the golden age of cycling.
The event takes place every October when thousands of hardened cyclists travel back in time to ride these gravel roads on primitive machines of the past.
The heavy lugged-steel bikes with down-tube shifters and impossible gear ratios are no match for the red wine in the participant’s water bottles and the hardman mentality.
Today, we’ll have our own taste of cycling’s heroic origins as we join one of the most beautiful gravel sections of L’Eroica.
From the heart of Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany’s most celebrated wine region, ride to the top Passo del Lume Spento.
In fact starts the Castiglion del bosco gravel section.
Castiglion del bosco is the biggest brunello winery & farm belonging to Ferragamo, the famous Italian fashion designer.
Once in Bibbiano another section called la Piana and reach Murlo after 30 km- caffé & visit!
Shortly you will face another legendary Eroica section to Radi, with some steep yet short up and down.
At Ville di Corsano you deserve a light lunch.
from here you have the last 12 km on secondary paved road to Siena.