Ciclocross in Monte Senario
Firenze – Fiesole – Monte Senario and back
Ridden on 21.01.2012 Distance: 50.00 km
Here is the link to view the details about this route:
http://app.strava.com/rides/3500608
Another winter sunny day, another chance to go out crossing on the mountains around Florence. The daily route is infact a trip into the mountains north of Florence, passing through Fiesole, a very beautiful ancient town on the top of the hill, and then climbing again till the top of Monte Senario (900 m s.l.m.), and the convent that stands up there. This route can be done in two different ways: using main roads, or using dirt roads. I decided to mix it. I climbed the hill of Fiesole and then continued on the main road direction “Olmo”. I turned left for “Passo della Catena”, and here i start climbing on a dirt road. There was too much mud, and i preferred to use main roads after a while to avoid problems with the bike… Then i took the road to Bivigliano, a mountain village, and here i started to climb to Monte Senario. The view on the road was great, but not as the panorama from the Monte Senario convent: you can see all the Mugello valley and all the mountain chains that devides Tuscany from Emilia Romagna north. Really amazing, quite hard with the slopes!
Beautiful roads, and beautiful places…can i suggest you a deviation from Bivigliano to Monte Senario or Polcanto passing by Via Tassaia?
There are many dirt roads across chestnut forest on the hill, or the main road (maybe just a little close) with many curves and gradients.
And you can see the Badia del Buonsollazzo,unfortunately only from outside (but if for some reason you want to enter inside, you find for sure someone that comes with you, me for example…)
Ciao Roberto…ancora non ci sono passato dalla strada che mi dici, ma l’avevo adocchiata da tempo. Credo siano posti molto belli, ed al più presto ci farò un passaggio…
hai una mountain bike o fai anche tu ciclocross?
Aimhè no, è da parecchio che non uso la mountain bike per andare sui sentieri, più precisamente da quando me l’hanno fregata sotto casa…però in moto mi piace andare su strade poco conosciute a scoprire posti nuovi, e non disdegno lo sterrato (ovviamente in estate visto che fango e naked non vanno molto d’accordo, o quantomeno non sono ancora in grado di andarci in sicurezza)
Poi quando riesco a convincere Paola trekkeggio anche per cui sentieri ne vedo in zona
ottimo. potremmo anche far scattare un trekking insieme una domenica…almeno ci si rivede!
più che volentieri!
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