CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 250 km round trip from Bologna - roughly 4 h 26 in the saddle. On the way it passes Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola, Villa de Cafaggiolo and back through Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bologna is a city built for walking in the rain. More than forty kilometres of covered arcades line its streets, some medieval, some Renaissance, some modern, and the Porticoes of Bologna received UNESCO status in 2021 as a distinctive urban form. They began as a practical fix: the university, founded in the eleventh century and often called the oldest in the world, drew so many students that the city needed more living space, and builders were allowed to extend rooms outward over the street on timber beams. Later they were rebuilt in brick and stone and required by law, so that people could move along any main street without getting wet.
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The Porticoes of Bologna is where the day begins. Next is Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola, 49 km on.
The Santerno valley climbs south from Imola into the Apennines toward Tuscany, and about fifteen kilometres up, the river cuts through a ridge of shining grey-white rock. This is the western end of the Vena del Gesso Romagnola, the gypsum vein that runs across this part of Romagna, and Monte Penzola rises above the village of Borgo Tossignano, with Fontanelice and Casalfiumanese nearby.
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Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villa de Cafaggiolo.
In the green bowl of the Mugello, north of Florence, the Medici family kept a house long before they ruled the city. Cafaggiolo was an old family property, and around the middle of the fifteenth century Cosimo the Elder had the architect Michelozzo transform it into a fortified country villa, with battlements, a tower and a moat, a cross between a castle and a farmhouse. Lorenzo the Magnificent spent time here as a boy, and the villa became a favourite retreat for hunting and escaping the plague in the city. It is one of the Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany listed by UNESCO, and visits depend on current restoration and opening arrangements, so check before you arrive.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Villa de Cafaggiolo. Next is back through Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola, 49 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola write-up.
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back through Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola, late in the day. Next is The Porticoes of Bologna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Porticoes of Bologna write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Porticoes of Bologna. That is the ride.
The Porticoes of Bologna → Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola → Villa de Cafaggiolo is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa de Cafaggiolo → back through Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vena del Gesso Romagnola - M.te Penzola → The Porticoes of Bologna is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.