A cycle route of 225Km, between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, connecting Dante's places from Florence, his hometown, through the Mugello area all the way to Marradi, and beyond the Apennine border, descending to Ravenna, where the Supreme Poet is buried.
The itinerary in Tuscany has been divided in three legs; one of which, short and without differences in height, connects the villages of San Piero a Sieve and Borgo San Lorenzo, running along the pedestrian and cycle lane along the Sieve river and making this route especially suited to families with children or less experienced amateur cyclists.
Departing from Florence, Dante Alighieri's birthplace, rich in historical and artistic evidence related to the figure of the poet, from the Baptistery of San Giovanni to Palazzo Vecchio, to the Casa di Dante Museum, you leave the city pedalling uphill along the via Bolognese and getting to skirt the boundary wall of the Pratolino Medici Park, once the favourite residence of Francesco I de'Medici that today is part of the UNESCO serial site, on a par with the other Medici villas and gardens in Tuscany. After Pratolino the road continues, entering the Mugello area, until it reaches San Piero a Sieve, with its ancient parish church dedicated to Saint Peter. The next leg instead leads us to discover Borgo San Lorenzo, with its beautiful Liberty-style residences and the Chini Museum, dedicated to ceramic and stoneware productions inspired by the Art Nouveau style, created by Galileo Chini at the beginning of the last century. Leaving Borgo San Lorenzo you continue towards the Apennine, along the via Faentina, going up to the Colla di Casaglia Pass, at an altitude of 903 m., that connects the Mugello valley with the Lamone one, then descending towards Marradi, birthplace of poet Dino Campana, surrounded by forests of chestnut trees that produce the famous "marrone" chestnut of Marradi.
The detailed description of the itinerary, complete with GPS tracks, is available on the Visit Tuscany website; while the itinerary in the Romagna area is described, with all necessary information for its completion, on the Emilia Romagna Turismo website.
