Ride and cook like a Tuscan is an amazing guided bike tour – Tuscany, Italy

EXPERIENCE:

Day one — 28km (elevation: 551 mt)
You will check into your accommodation and then start a short warm-up bike ride.
Today’s ride is a test ride day as it is just a taste of what is yet to come!.
We ride from the villa to san giovanni d’asso – famous for the white Truffle!.

Day two — 63 km (elevation: 1.154 mt)
Today we will enjoy a nice loop ride and tonight’s first cooking class!
Our first destination is pienza, followed by a ride to san giovanni d’asso and torrenieri.
This is the only flat road for today.
From torrenieri, we cycle to san quirico on the old cassia road and part of via francigena.
After a break in the main square in san quirico, we ride to pienza. Here you can enjoy the beautiful view of the val d’orcia valley — a unesco world heritage site.
The second part of the ride is on a beautiful secondary road until castelmuzio and petroio village famous for their olive oil.

Day Three — 55 km (elevation: 947 mt)
Today could be a challenging day!
We will enjoy a guided city tour of Siena as well as the ride to Siena through a part of the Chianti area.
The Chianti area is famous for the red wine, the beautiful vineyards take us all the way to Siena.
Siena has one of Europe’s greatest medieval town squares which is linked to the historic Palio — the famous horses race.
After visiting Siena, we will drive you back to the villa.

Day Four — 65 km (elevation: 1.069 mt)
Today we will enjoy a bike ride followed by another cooking class. The loop ride today is in the middle of the Crete Senesi land.
The first part of this road can be challenging, but the view of the hills is breathtaking.
You’ll feel as though you’re on the moon!
It is here where we will enjoy lunch and after we ride back to the villa.

Day Five — 53 km (elevation: 787 mt)
Today we will ride to Cortona as well as enjoy our third and last cooking class!
We start from the villa and climb to Trequanda.
This charmed land of rounded hilltops is covered with vineyards and acres of sunflowers bathed in pastel sunlight.
Feeling invigorated, we will set off on a long, slow climb towards Cortona — the delightful hill town made famous by Frances Mayes in her bestselling novel Under the Tuscan Sun.
After lunch at a local trattoria, we’ll stroll around Cortona’s pristine medieval street and then we’ll begin our descent back to the villa by van.

Day Six — 61 km (elevation: 1.107 mt)
Our last ride is to Montalcino — the famous village of Brunello wine.
Before our arrival in Montalcino, we ride through the little village of Chiusure and abbazia di Monte Oliveto, which is still a functioning monastery founded in 1313 by bernardo tolomei. Tolomei was a famous professor of law who later devoted his life to God at the age of 40.
From buonconvento, after a good coffee, we climb to montalcino in the middle of the vineyard of san giovese grapes.
From here we’ll ride up and down to the villa.

Day Seven — Farewell
After breakfast we will drive you back to siena train station.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Amazing guided bike tour
The original Tuscany food
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