Tuscany bicycle tour from 2011 to 7 days of cycling Dear Friends EmozioneAvventura
Registration is open for an interesting itinerary to be followed in bike.
Duration: 7 days
Date: July 4 to 10 - August 1 to 7 - August 29 to September 4 - September 26 to October 2
Difficulty: Medium Cost
: 600 , 00 €
Donation: 5% of the registration fee will be donated to non-profit organization Nasara
Registration is now open only for groups already formed
Seats are limited, is therefore advisable to book in advance
E ' need a medical certificate attesting to your good health
The bike tour will be led by Riccardo Agostini
Seven days of cycling to admire beautiful landscapes and historical monuments on trails to discover.
Together we will visit the villages of: - Acquapendente (Route Medieval, Renaissance Route)
- Pitigliano (the Orsini fortress and palace, the Vie Cave, the Ghetto, the arches of the Medici)
- Sorano (Fortezza Orsini Archaeological Park Vitozza Archaeological Park San Rocco)
- Sovana (the Village, the Etruscan necropolis)
- Grotte di Castro (Pianezze Necropolis, the Museum of Archaeology and Popular Traditions )
- Gradoli (Old Town, Palazzo Farnese, Farnese Museum of Costume)
and run through a beautiful journey through the natural reserve of Monte Rufeno.
Registration fee € 600.00 INCLUDES: - basic insurance for the group
- The B & B
- Transfer (if necessary): Orvieto train station / Acquapendente.
- Equipment for lunch (cutlery, plates, glasses, etc.).
- Packed lunches (it will be cold and will be provided by varying: bread, rice salad, chicken salad, egg, tuna, cheese, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, corn, mushrooms, fruits in season).
- Entrance to museums
The registration fee does not include: - The optional excursions
- Auto
support - Drinks
- the rent of bicycle
- Anything not mentioned in the program
The program may be modified se le condizioni climatiche o imprevisti non permetteranno la sicurezza del gruppo.
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Toscana bike tour 2011
In molti hanno visitato e conoscono le bellezze della
Toscana e dell’
Alta Tuscia Laziale , ma in pochi hanno avuto l’opportunitá di addentrarsi in queste terre seguendo stretti e tortuosi sentieri. Emozione Avventura has created a mountain bike tour
that lets you discover these areas appreciating the beauty of the countryside to slow the bike
.
Structure adventure
Each participant will reach Acquapendente (vt) individually.
The only public transport to the country are the bus line. You can avail yourself of some companies: the Sira (tel. 0641730083) and Rama
(0564616040-0564475111) connecting Acquapendente to Tuscany, the
Cotral (0761308837-0761226592) that connects to Acquapendente Lazio.
If you decide to use the train, you could build on: della stazione ferroviaria di Siena e poi prendere un pulman Sira o Rama; della stazione ferroviaria di Viterbo e prendere un pulman Cotral; della stazione ferroviaria di Orvieto. In questo ultimo caso saremmo noi a venirvi a prendere.
I giorno (Lunedí):
Arrivo
Sistemazione presso il
B & B Acquapendente .
Montaggio
biciletta e, in base all’orario di arrivo dei partecipanti, visita alla cittá di Acquapendente lungo l’Itinerario Medievale:
- La Cripta della Basilica del San Sepolcro.
Al centro della cripta, una doppia scalinata, scavata in stone, you can reach the shrine in the shape of a rectangular pyramid, reproducing the S. Sepulchre in Jerusalem, with the presence in the tabernacle interior, mounted stones, according to tradition, were bathed in the blood of Christ during the Passion, as attested by a Latin inscription placed in the front wall of the opening chapel
. Consecrated in 1149 by the Bishop of Orvieto Aldobrandino, the church of San Francesco convent was entrusted to the minors in 1253. Along the perimeter of the church are located fourteen wooden statues of excellent workmanship, carved in 1751 by John from Bulgarini Piancastagnaio, le quali rappresentano a grandezza naturale i dodici apostoli e i santi Giuseppe e Giovanni Battista.
- Monastero di Santa Chiara.
Ai margini nord-ovest del centro urbano di Acquapendente, sul colle un tempo denominato “Poggio del Massaro”, è ubicato il monastero di clausura di S. Chiara. Su questo colle era eretta, probabilmente, un'antica fortezza a difesa della città. Per tale motivo la località veniva denominata anche “La Cittadella”.
- Chiesa di Santa Vittoria.
Intorno all'antica Parish of St. Victoria developed the first settlement of the city Acquapendente. In 1588 Acquapendente belonged to the diocese of Orvieto and St. Victoria had the title of priory church which he held until, in 1649, the church of S. Tomb was raised to Cathedral and declared the capital of the diocese.
The church and the attached convent was founded in 1290, but due to a fire broke out on 8 November 1746. which destroyed the church, was also the first to be affected by changes in Baroque who worked Acquapendente in the second half of the 700.
Julia La Torre de 'James, already Porta S. Sepulchre, was named in honor of the girl aquesiana, that 18 gennaio1550, with his quickness, he managed to block the entrance to the enemy soldiers. Today, the Tower, which still seems to stand guard over the country, is home to the ground floor the visitor center Rufeno Mountain Nature Reserve, an information center and a shop selling local produce and local crafts.
II day (Tuesday):
Bike tour Tuscany, the city of Pitigliano.
daily stage: 58.2 Km
Departure at 8.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch, return, dinner and overnight at the B & B
Acquapendente .
Visit the town of Pitigliano:
These Streets dug in the rock, with walls often as high as twenty feet, some nearly a mile long, the width of about two or three meters in some places closed up by the branches of the trees form a green and shady tunnel. The microclimate of these wet areas and allows the shady life in the Vie Cave in mosses, lichens and ferns. On the bottom are clear signs of the hooves donkeys that for centuries there have passed, what means of transportation that accompanied the men to work in the countryside. These spectacular and beautiful trails dug by the Etruscans, the rock, because they were made? They were only means of communication, as some claim, or sacred locations? It is not easy to answer, but there is no doubt that in proximity to each Via Cava necropolis were discovered, more or less numerous.
Pitigliano, which was home to Jews since perhaps the late fifteenth century, became for them an important center of refuge in central Italy, much to erect a Temple nel 1598. Il Ghetto è composto da una serie di vie e vicoli del centro storico dove si svolgeva la vita sociale, culturale e religiosa degli Ebrei. Pitigliano, unica erede delle "città rifugio" del territorio, le favorevoli condizioni conservatesi per secoli resero possibile lo svilupparsi di eccezionali rapporti di convivenza e di tolleranza tra la popolazione ebraica e quella cristiana, tanto che la cittadinanza venne designata come la "Piccola Gerusalemme".
- Gli Archi dell’Acquedotto Mediceo.
Il paesaggio di Pitigliano è caratterizzato da due giganteschi archi dell’acquedotto mediceo, sorretti da un enorme pilastro e collegati a tredici archi smaller built by the Lorena. The aqueduct was built to boost the Medici from 1636 to 1639.
E 'an impressive palace source aldobrandesca restored by Orsini made between the late fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. It was the principal residence of the Counts of Pitigliano and Sorano. Currently belongs to a large extent and is home to the Diocesan of the Diocese of Pitigliano, Sovana and Orbetello. Orsini palace houses two museums: the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Palazzo Orsini, together with the Municipal Library and Historical Archive and the Library and the Historical Archive of the diocese.
Originally aldobrandesca was restored between 1543 and 1545 by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to the will of Count Orsini Gianfrancesco. The Sangallo built two bastions polygonal, more suitable to withstand the impact of firearms in relation to existing circular towers. The ramparts were turned into private homes.
III day (Wednesday):
Bike Tour Alta Tuscia , a town of Grotte di Castro and Gradoli
daily stage: 38.7 Km
Departure at 8.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch, return, dinner and overnight at the B & B
Acquapendente .
Visit the town of Grotte di Castro:
- The Necropolis of Pianezze.
The necropolis is part of a larger system that must be reported to the village cemetery Etruscan uprising, in all probability, on the hill called La Civita. The Etruscan necropolis Pianezze the location, in use between the seventh and fifth century BC, is characterized by the presence of chamber tombs excavated in the tuff of the hill.
- Museum of Archaeology and Popular Traditions.
La struttura museografica è divisa in due sezioni principali che hanno il compito di illustrare i due momenti storici più significativi di Grotte di Castro: quello etrusco (al piano superiore) e quello medievale (al piano inferiore) con l'inserimento di alcune tematiche relative sia a quelle manifestazioni dell'attività umana che stanno scomparendo sotto l'impulso della moderna tecnologia sia alle più radicate tradizioni popolari.
Visita alla cittadina di Gradoli:
- Museo del costume Farnesiano.
Il museo con l'ausilio di pannelli illustrativi, postazioni interattive, saletta video, ospita un' ampia collezione reproductions of clothing noble, popular, ecclesiastical, intimate apparel, accessories, weapons and armor from the Renaissance period.
Gradoli The Palazzo Farnese is one of the towering fortress-palace of the Farnese family scattered in Italy. The sixteenth century building that dominates the whole village was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the summer residence of Pope Paul III Farnese.
A visit to Gradoli can not start it from its historical center that has as its starting point the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, where you can admire the fountain cast with masks. From here through the arch, known as "Donkey", where was the ancient gateway to the village, you enter the old town.
IV Day (Thursday):
Bike tour Tuscany , village Sovana
daily stage: 54.66 km
Departure at 8.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch, return, dinner and overnight at the B & B
Acquapendente .
Visit the town of Sovana:
The town of Sovana is very interesting in many respects, especially in the historic, being kind in very ancient times and still bears the marks of ancient rulers, we speak of the Etruscans and Romans, who left important traces of their passage and their presence.
The vast necropolis is one of the most impressive and important witnesses who left us this fascinating people developed the first great period of hegemony of Rome.
V day (Friday):
Bike Tour Alta Tuscia , Monte Rufeno
daily stage: 25Km
Departure at 9.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch, return, dinner and overnight at
B B & Acquapendente .
Rufeno Mountain Nature Reserve, established in 1983, is part of the system of protected areas of Lazio and covers 2892 hectares in the Municipality of Acquapendente the border of Umbria and Tuscany.
sixth day (Saturday):
Bike tour Tuscany , town of Sorano
daily stage: 50Km
Departure at 8.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch, return, dinner and overnight at
B & B Acquapendente .
Visit the town of Sorano:
With its imposing size, the Orsini fortress overlooking the medieval town of Sorano and is one of the greatest examples of medieval architecture of the Renaissance. Created by Aldobrandeschi in the thirteenth century. and was subsequently restored by Orsini, according to the requirements imposed by the advent of firearms. The aim was to make Sorano a powerful military stronghold in this turbulent century-old dispute between the family and the Republic of Siena.
- Vitozza Archaeological Park.
This is one of the largest and most important rock dwellings of Italy. The town is located about 2 km from the center of San Quirico, the village's most populous town of Sorano, can be reached on foot through a path of great charm and undoubted environmental value.
- Archaeological Park San Rocco.
The settlement of San rock art Rocco is situated on a huge terrace surrounded by greenery overlooking the medieval town of Sorano and the valley of the River Lente. From the archaeological point of view, this area is almost completely unexplored. Along the ridges of the plateau there are numerous spaces excavated in the tufa. Some of these, particularly those exposed to the southwest, have been used during the period such as Etruscan burial sites, and others in the Middle Ages were almost exclusively a function of population.
seventh day (Sunday):
Bike Tour Alta Tuscia , Acquapendente Route Renaissance Stage
Daily 3Km
Departure at 9.00 after breakfast (omelette, Mousli, bread, fruit, milk, chocolate, jam, coffee), lunch in
B & B Acquapendente , greeting participants
Visit the town of Acquapendente
A recent restoration of the structure made it possible to allocate part in the Diocesan Museum. On the first floor of the building is located, as well as Bishop's apartment, the archives of the curia, the former seminary library and various works of art belonging to various churches. Downstairs you can visit the old prison whose walls are still legible, graffiti on the wall, the evidence left by the prisoners.
along Via Roma, behind the church of S. Augustine is the church of S. And S. Antonio Abate Catherine. The facade that dates back more than a century ago was built by architect William Meluzzi and already from the sketch made in July 1875 shows its willingness to resume the reasons plastic on the ground floor near the bell tower of St. Augustine.
The two sources, which are located just inside the city, originally called the Rigombo and horse mackerel. That comes from the Latin of Rigombo "Recumbere", or rest, but also stay, wanting to understand that the source was a place of interruption of the journey for the traveler and his mount. The name "Mascheroni" came into use when the source was framed by architecturally Meluzzi, with pilasters and cornices, with grotesque masks torches around the water.
After logging Valley Rivo, around the twelfth century, was born in the heart of what is now Piazza Girolamo Fabrizio, already Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. And 'here that many families decided to build their stately mansions, real monuments to Acquapendente, especially the characteristic and solemn portals. In front of the church of S. Stefano (number 8) is located Benci-Caterini building, with arched doorway under a type of Doric entablature.
The decades that followed the unification of Italy led to a renewal process including the city of Acquapendente, in which the growth of public functions related to the new kingdom, called for building larger, healthier and more comfortable. Ran from the building as a monument to the building as an expression of a social function. Thus was born the new town hall, an opera impressive in its size compared with all of the old town hall on the area where the new building was built in neoclassical style. The building overlooks the main square, is in its majestic and simple elegance, distancing himself from the environment.
Palazzo Petrucci-Piccioni (number 6), which is located opposite the town hall (architect Meluzzi this work dates back to 1870) is characterized by the portal with a round arch, enclosed within strong rusticated pilasters and contains the "TANCREDES PETRUTIUS" on either side of the main concert.
Altro palazzo interessante è quello Savini-Costantini (numero civico 3), che si affaccia sull'angolo della piazza principale all'incrocio con piazza Oberdan: la ghiera dell'arco del portale si allarga verso l'alto ed è ornata, al centro, dallo stemma gentilizio dei Savini.
Acquapendente è stata fin dalle sue origini, una terra ricca di sorgenti naturali, che scaturiscono al contatto dei depositi tufacei con le colate laviche sottostanti. Come risulta dagli scritti del Biondi, cronista locale del XVI sec., queste sorgenti all’inizio erano raccolte in fosse ed erano utilizzate solo per gli animali, mentre where they come from, the water was perfectly clear and drinkable.
do not know the precise year of construction of the church. that seems to have existed before 1594. In principle, the entrance is on the right side of the building, which now opens a small square, in 1877 the church was demolished to be rebuilt to a design by William Meluzzi, the architect who oversaw the reorganization and the construction of several buildings public of the historical center. The interior of the church, has undergone over the years, several restorations, especially following the bombing of World War II.
Acquapendente In "The HOSPITALITAS" that is, the old hospital care, had on various institutions. The news oldest dates back to November 26, 1235 and refers to the hospital of the bridge of straw, of which there remains no trace even in the local toponymy. The birth of the Civil Hospital of Acquapendente, occurred around the second half of 1400, with the merger of the hospitals of St. John (1406-1438) and St. Maria (1387-1471).
Above the main door you can see the coat of arms Viscontini "a palm tree with a snake right here another one from the other side et there, et on these snakes is a crown on a white background, et above the arms is the miter with a pastoral et with a motto in a brief that says W. ANT. s. ABBAS. Biondi 1588 Viscontini the death of the palace passed to his niece Giles, who had married Guido Piccioia Benci and then to the family, as recalled in a lintel that says Andreas Bencius. From 700 to 800 belonged to the first to Cerri and is currently owned by the family Cordeschi.
Tradition has it that the last vestiges of the ancient castle of Frederick I Barbarossa in which he lived his governor Welf VI, downloaded from the population following the rebellion of 1166.
List materials which you have
1) documents, wallet and phone in sealed bags
2) 2 / 3 Full-
bike (possibly two short and one long)
3 ) bike helmet
4) jacket
5) 1 heavy sweater or fleece
6) Flashlight
7) 2 tubes
8) long pants
9) high protection sunscreen
10), salt supplements, bars energy
11) sneakers or trekking
12) knife "Swiss"
13) backpack
14) sunglasses
It 's a very special journey is necessary spirit of adaptability and coexistence with the group.
During the trip we will explore possible changes due to climate for instance, blocked roads and so on. which does not depend on the organization.
are available for any clarification, who is seriously interested and motivated can contact me.
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