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Monsignor
della Casa Country Resort is an ideal jumping-off place to
discover with a bike the Mugello area. Thanks to bikes available at
the Resort, cyclists can try their’ hands at personalized cycling
tours according to places they want to see, to track time and kind
(flat or mountain) and to its difficulty (rises, drops and length).
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In 2007 the Giro d’Italia
stopped off even in Mugello, land where in the
40’s the great champion Gastone Nencini was born; he won the
Giro d’Italia in 1957 and the Tour de France in 1960.
 Mugello,
crossed by Sieve river, is made of 2 geographic areas: Mugello,
which embraces the villages of Vaglia, San Piero a Sieve, Barberino
di Mugello, Scarperia, Borgo San Lorenzo and Vicchio, and the Upper
Mugello or Romagna-Tuscany, which embraces Firenzuola, Palazzuolo
sul Senio and Marradi.
Mugello area, with its vast flatlands that harmoniously alternates
with hillsides and mountains over 1000 meters, offers to roadster
and mountain bike lovers extraordinary routes with different gradients,
as the ones in the publication “Cycling amidst chestnut woods
and wine” by the local territorial association (www.mugellotoscana.it).
The first route starts from Borgo
San Lorenzo and passes through San Cresci (well-known for its beautiful
church), Campestri (461 meters above sea level, it is the highest
point of this excursion), Dicomano and Vicchio (the birthplace of
two great painters: Beato Angelico and Giotto). The 40 km route
is suitable for cycle excursionists with the minimum training and
has a maximum 10% gradient.
The second route starts from
Borgo San Lorenzo in order to reach the Covent of Bosco ai Frati
(where a wooden crucifix attributed to Donatello is treasured by
the monks), Galliano, Sant’Agata hamlets and Scarperia (wll-known
for its Mueseum of Knives), Cycling along the International Car
Racing Circuit, which in 1977 and 2007 played home to Giro d’Italia
stop, finally you arrive in Luco di Mugello and Ronta, well-known
for their home-made potatoes Tortelli pasta.
 The
third route is absolutely one of the most beautiful.
Leaving Sagginale, you cycle up the climb of Salaiole going towards
the hills that take you to Florence (almost 15% gradients). Once
you reach the top Le Croci you pass again into the wood up to the
crossroad for Monte Senario (an average of 7% gradients), continue
towards Bivigliano (at a height of about 600 meters) and arrive
to Abbey of Buonsollazzo since you start going downhill once again
as far as the small village of Polcanto.
The fourth route, long more
than 65km, is similar to the chrono-ascent of Barberino-Futa Pass
which took place up to few years ago and involved some well-known
cyclist too. Going up the Futa Pass towards Bologna, you reach Firenzuola,
hamlet famous for its pietra serena (local grey stone) quarries,
Panna, where there is a famous source of water with a low mineral
content, and at least the artificial Lake of Bilancino, called the
Lake of Tuscany.
Expert cyclists can try the mythical ascents of the Appenine, along
a 100km track which hard tests the cyclist. Starting from Firenzuola,
you arrive to Paretaio Pass (800 meters altitude and 8% gradient)
and reach Palazzuolo sul Senio. A downhill takes you in Marradi,
the town of the poet Dino Campana, then you have to face 3 passes,
Eremo, Peschiera and Muraglione that bring you to San Godenzo, passing
through the National Park of the Casentinesi Forests.
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