Monferrato Gravel: Acqui
Piedmont
97km ↔️
2 days 📅
45% unpaved 🚵♂️
840m D+ ↗️
840m D- ↘️
400m asl ⛰
🗺 Alessandria (AL)
📅 February – November
Activities
🔎 Overview
Monferrato’s hidden gem. The gravel bike is perfect to discover the less crowded countryside roads. The 5km stretch before Castel Bormida is a real highlight for fast gravellers, with an adventurous ford on the Bormida river. Approaching the hills of Acqui Terme, the landscape changes and you enter a world of narrow valleys and steep hills covered with vineyards. The stunning views are a well deserved reward for the effort on the challenging steeps. Last highlight: the woods after Mombaruzzo, pure cyclocross style 🚴♀️ 🚴 🚴♂️
👀 Our advices
The only important suggestion is to use at leats 40mm tires as the Bombaruzzo CX when wet would be impossible to do otherwise.
📸 Points of interest
Alessandria
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Bormida river
—and its ford after Rivalta
Straight gravel segment
—really fast, after Sezzano
Acqui Terme
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La Bollente
—termal fountain in Acqui Terme
Wineyards climbing towards Alice Bel Colle
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Viewpoints and Big Bench around Alice Bel Colle
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CX-style woods
—after Bombaruzzo