🔎 Overview

Tuscany. The overview might end here as well, is there really something more to be said?

Tuscany is the THE LAND to do a cycling trip! Breathtaking panoramas, a constant up and down along its beautiful hard-packed gravelly hills. You look on your right and you see vast extentes of yellow fields, you take a look on your left and you see the brightest blue sky of Italy, you look forward and gather at long lines of cypresses.

We reached a small medieval village on top of a lovely hill a stone’s throw from Gaiole -in the Chianti Wine area 🍷- to spend the first night, to be able to start early the day after. Our aim was to pedal in the mornings and to spend the afternoons and evengings savouring the cities of Tuscany, its archtitecture, art and history (as well as the delicious tuscanian food 🍴).

The aim of the first day was Siena. UNESCO World Heritage city widely known for its Palio, the horse race in the main square of the city, as old as medioeval time.

The second day has offered the landscapes Tuscany is famous for: loads of Strade Bianche (white roads). Kms upon kms of white gravel roads that cut through vineyards and corn fields, linking together ancient medioeval hilltop towns like our aim for the day: Montalcino, famous for its red wine, yet again, the Tuscan hills are jaw dropping and when you see Montalcino on top of its own hill you just say wow, you’ll have no other words to say.

The third day was about pedalling through the Val d’Orcia Valley to reach Buonconvento, home of the Nova Eroica races. Since this day we mostly left the uphill part of the journey for a sweeter up-and-down rolling that brought us back to Gaiole.

We really recommend you to do this trip in 5 days like us, if you want to visit the citites and all their little treasures 😄