By e-bike to discover Maremma, a wild land with a strong and frank character as well as its inhabitants, where the presence of man has left permanent signs of his presence, just think of the civilisation of the Etruscans. We are in southern Tuscany, the history of Maremma starts very far away, once a sea, then became a lake, Lake Prile and finally a swamp, today a beautiful and rich plain with as “capital” the city of Grosseto. During our journey we will retrace the entire history of Maremma. We will ride on ancient Roman cobblestone roads and on the Via dei Cavalleggeri, a network of white roads that joined the various lookout points on the coast, visit the remains of the Etruscan city of Roselle, the Maremma Natural Park and the
Ombrone River, and Grosseto with its beautiful walls still intact.
Maremma can be visited throughout the year thanks to a very mild climate even in winter. Here nature “offers” the best of itself in every season, if we then join the ancient folk traditions, legends, food and wine products, this way this land will flood you inside and you will not be able to do without it anymore!
These will be two loop tours of the length of 50 and 35 km mainly on flat routes and with some climbs that are easy to overcome thanks to the use of e-bikes.
We will ride on bike paths, dirt roads and only in some sections on asphalt with little traffic.
Arrival in Grosseto and accommodation in hotel/b&b/agriturismo and free afternoon, recommended visit to the historic center of Grosseto (Medicean walls, Cathedral, Maremma Archeological and Art Museum, Maremma Natural History Museum). In the evening briefing of the trip with the guide, e-bike delivery and dinner at hotel restaurant with menu based on local products km 0.
The journey begins, the adventure begins... today we're going to discover the Maremma Natural Park, the reserve where Maremma cows, with their characteristic large horns, and Maremma horses live in the wild and, if we're lucky, even admire the ‘butteri’ at work.
We will ride on the bike path that runs along the bank of the Ombrone River, which we will cross thanks to the brand new bridge and then reach the village of Alberese from where we will enter the park. We will visit Marina di Alberese, Bocca d'Ombrone, the mouth of the river into the sea, and then arrive at the wonderful wild beach of Collelungo for a lunch break and a visit to the Collelungo Tower from where we can admire a unique panorama of the Maremma coast.
The second part of the route will take us through a large centuries-old olive grove, stretches of Mediterranean scrub and the Granducale pine forest before resuming the bike path to return to Grosseto, always keeping an eye out; it is not difficult to come across more or less close encounters with wild boar, foxes, deer and roe deer.
Dinner at the rural restaurant Gli Attortellati with typical Maremma cuisine.
On the second tour of our journey, we will visit the archaeological site of the Etruscan city of Roselle, one of the twelve city-states that made up the Dodecapolis, a powerful economic, religious and military "Etruscan league" alliance.
We will ride along the bike path that connects Grosseto to the remains of the ancient city of Roselle, first Etruscan and then Roman, where we will have the opportunity to visit the various commercial areas, the baths, some of the dwellings, the amphitheater and the imposing walls that protected it. It will be a plunge back in time 2500 years ago and we will discover how mysterious and contemporary the Etruscan civilisation still is today.
Finished the visit we will return with the e-bikes to the hotel/b&b/farm where our trip will end.
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