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Cycling and trekking holidays

Sport and Leisure

Tuscany countryside and in particular Montaione and his territory, is a veritable paradise for bike and trekking tourists who are greeted by hills criss-crossed with and endless variety of itineraries and possibilities foe enjoying a cycling holiday.

Deciding to explore this part of tuscany by bike or by feet means undertaking a fantastic journey along roads that seems built to offer the maximum contact with nature and the surroundings countryside.

If you think that cycling or trekking is the best way to experience the tuscany countryside, you will find in Montaione and surroundings a wide range of roads and trails that make it the best place for your holiday by bike or trekking, or just for a relaxing walk, far from the daily stress.

Ride a bike or just walking, is ideal to appreciate a land in constant evolution, where winding country roads, typical of the Tuscan countryside representing the ideal setting for painters, photographers, writers who has been inspired to transform their works into arts.

The huge territory of 10.490 hectares, with a wide variety of country roads (here called 'strade bianche' which represent a characteristic of the typical tuscany landscape together with rows of cypresses, chianti vineyards and ancient farmhouses scattered in the countryside) and trails for all tastes and bicycles.

Here the landscape is essentially hilly with gentle slopes - but you can also find adventurous country roads - that means they are ideal in particular for amateur cyclists and trekkers.

The most suitable season for a cycling or trekking holiday in Tuscany, is usually the spring from march to june, when temperature are not so high and in autumn from september to the first half of november.

The right place to stay for that kind of holiday is to be a guest in a farmhouse or in an holiday home, that usually, together with the most important facilities, offer bike rentals and bicycle parking in addition to give you information and suggestions about country roads for a relaxing ride.

Starting from your base camp accommodation, every day is possible to set out in a different direction trying new itineraries with different levels of difficulty depending of your level of ability; this allows you choosing more adventurous trails.

Here follow a list of accommodation where you can stay and hire a bike: