There are plenty of restaurants so they are nice places to stop for a meal or a glass of wine Sorano and Pitigliano are both definite stops to explore.View from Roccastrada (Toscana) Arcidosso to Sovanaįrom Arcidosso the route turns back towards the coast and the hilltop towns of Sorano, Sovana and Pitigliano - the zona del tufo so called after the soft tufo rock. There’s also a nice restaurant (the Picio Matto) hidden away in the old town. The variant takes you through the town of Roccastrada where you can climb up to the Belvedere (viewpoint) on the old city walls with views out over the coast. A major part of the climbing on the route is in this first third.Ī little way after Sassofortino, about 38 kilometres from Massa Marittima, you have the first of two linked variants that avoid sections of sterrata (unsurfaced road) and reduce the length of the route by almost 60 kilometres. The official route heads clockwise from Massa Marittima towards Arcidosso (822m) on the slopes of Monte Amiata (1738m). You could head for the summit of Monte Amiata (1738m) and return via Abbadia di San Salvatore. You could also head towards Campiglia Marittima and from there take the high road along the coastĪnd if you want to spend some time on the coast, my advice would be to head for Elba which I think is a better option than the mainland coast, which can be a little dull with not very good-value campsites.įrom Arcidosso and Monte Amiata you could also head north towards Pienza, Montepulciano and Siena, or south for northern Lazio and Rome. You could head north along the coast towards Pisa (see this article or south along the Lazio. The Bicitalia Ciclovia Tirrenica shares the coastal section of the route. Here’s a map showing the two routes and the links between them: show map in overlay show map in new window. You could connect this route to the Grand Tour della Val di Merse by taking the very scenic road via Roccastrada. ━━━━━ Main route: section on unsurfaced road.━━━━━ Main route: section on surfaced road.Map: FT-maps-toscana-GTDM-show map in overlay | FT-maps-toscana-GTDM-show map in new window The second, at Sovana, about 200 kilometres into the route) enables you to avoid ‘il muro di Monte Nero’ (the wall of Monte Nero’) a 1.2-kilometre section on the way to San Martino with gradients of between 15 and 20 per cent.Ī third variant is a detour from to Capalbio and the coast. The first, a little way after Sassofortino, about 38 kilometres from Massa Marittima, enables you to avoid sections of sterrata (unsurfaced road), should you wish to, and reduce the length of the route by almost 60 kilometres. There are two main variants on the route. There are two other significant climbs further on: between Magliano-Toscana and Scansano (498 metres of altitude gain over 22 kilometres) and on the final climb into Massa Marittima (400 metres altitude gain over 27 kilometres). That’s then followed by a descent of nearly 300 metres and another climb of 295 metres over ten kilometres. The biggest climb is the section on the Monte Amiata (starting at 97 kilometres into the route) which climbs to a high point of 822m with an altitude gain of 780 metres over 40 kilometres. The tour primarily follows quiet, tarmac roads, but there are a couple of sections of unsurfaced road - but there are variants which enable you to avoid the more difficult bits (the variants are shown on the interactive map and included in the route file). (A white space means the vimeo servers are down).Ĭredits: Italia - Maremma from R-evolution on Vimeo. The Strada del Vino e dei Sapori Colle Maremma has commissioned an excellent promotional video, it’s in Italian, but even if you don’t understand the commentary, the photography is gorgeous. It’s an area that definitely has its own distinctive character and history. The Maremma occupies about a quarter of Toscana (and a chunk of northern Lazio). As well as the hilltop towns there are also a number of Etruscan sites including the Vie Cave - the roadways cut by the Etruscans thousands of years ago. It takes you through several hilltop towns that are among the most authentic in Toscana including Massa Marittima, Capalbio, Magliano in Toscana, Sorano, Sovana and Pitigliano. Monte Amiata is the great mountain (strictly speaking a volcanic dome) that is the key landmark of the south Tuscan landscape. It takes in some of the regions’s most interesting hilltop towns, and takes you from the sea to the shoulder of the Monte Amiata. The Gran Tour della Maremma is a 405-kilometre circular tour in the south-western part of Toscana. Gran Tour della Maremma - the road to Abbadia di San Salvatore
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