Cycling Tuscany & Umbria is a full-color bicycle touring guide and travel pictorial following a circular journey from Florence through Chianti, Siena and Val d’Orcia into Umbria and back to Tuscany, with route stages, distances, accommodations, 180 photographs and downloadable GPX tracks.
- Cycling Tuscany and Umbria samples the experience and charm traveling in two of Italy’s most celebrated regions by bicycle.
- The author takes you from Florence to and around Chianti, through Radda, Panzano and Greve, via Gaiole to Siena, then on south through Val D’Orcia to San Quirico, Montalcino, and Pienza. He continues southwest through Sorano and Sovana to Pitigliano, a mere fifty kilometers from the sea. Umbria and its opposite corner of the route is next. He heads east to Orvieto, Todi, Spoleto, Assisi, and via Perugia to Lake Trasimeno. At last it’s back to Tuscany, to Arezzo, Montevarchi and into the foothills of Pratomagno. With the landscape so stunning, he crosses Chianti once again en route back to Florence.
- Tomas Belcik is an author of many cycling guides. Cycling Tuscany and Umbria is a full-color travel pictorial of an amazing passage across Central Italy.
- Containing 180 photographs with informative and entertaining captions, details of stages and distances, a list of accommodations, and the journey-related GPX cycling tracks you can download, the book promises to entice any intrepid or armchair traveler.
For a first-hand reflection on why these landscapes are so rewarding to experience at bicycle pace, read Cycling Tuscany & Umbria: Beyond the Postcard Italy.
The downloadable format of the title is a PDF.
The paperback version of this title is available on Amazon.