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Spoleto-Assisi bicycle route: pedaling through the heart of Umbria
The spirituality of Assisi and its Christian heritage sites. The streams and canals that you ride alongside as you pedal along the route. Medieval villages and castles set in a unique landscape. The landscape of the Umbrian countryside, including olive trees, cultivated fields and vineyards.
There are many suggestions that the Spoleto-Assisi Ciclovia offers to the cyclist who travels it, along a route that is mainly on secondary roads and in its own seat, always gentle and flat.
The route, presented in the direction of Assisi, can be equally traveled in the opposite direction.
Technical description:
It starts from the outskirts of Spoleto, in San Nicolò, following the course of the Tessino stream. Reaching Bari Bridge in 1 km, cross SP 451 by passing under the road bridge, going up the ramp to the left and crossing the bicycle-pedestrian bridge, to descend to the right of the creek. The Tessino flows into the Maroggia, whose embankment one follows for several kilometers, admiring in the distance the villages of Eggi, Santa Maria, Bazzano and the Martani Mountains range to the west.
At km 11.3, cross the Tonda Church Bridge and proceed through a tree-lined section. The hamlet of Trevi runs to the east and its famous plots, the “Orti delle Canapine,” can be seen. Thanks to the Pietrarossa Bridge, we return again to the left side of the Maroggia (km 18), which shortly afterwards takes the name of Teverone and we skirt it, noting not far away on the right the town of Foligno.
The Teverone then heads west and with a bend you reach Bevagna, a wonderful Umbrian village: you cross it, still following the course of the Teverone (which then becomes the Timia River) in a northerly direction.
At km 31.2 after a pleasant hillside with vineyards, crossed along an avenue of cypress trees, you reach the junction with SP 403, which you cross over it by crossing the bridge over the Timia, then resuming pedaling along the river. Proceed along the dirt section of St. Catherine Street, abandoned at a fork in the road on the left, through cultivated fields. We soon reach the Atone stream, along whose bank we proceed, and then find the Timia again (km 36.6) and cross the village of Cannara, from which we leave by skirting the Topino stream.
The final stretch runs through open country, with views of Mount Subasio on the horizon. You reach the hamlet of Rivotorto and finally proceed with the final climb to Assisi.
Length: 53 km
Height difference in ascent: 353 m
Downhill elevation gain: 219 m
Highest point: 442 m
Lowest point: 186 m
Type of surface: asphalt
Municipality of departure: Spoleto
Place of departure: Spoleto
Municipality of arrival: Assisi
Place of arrival: Assisi
Recommended period: March to October
Spoleto-Assisi bicycle route: pedaling through the heart of Umbria
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