06 - Among valleys, beaches and pine woods

06 - Among valleys, beaches and pine woods

Gps Track

Gps Track

  • Start: Comacchio
  • Arrival: Ravenna
  • Total Length: 65,9 km
  • Cycle type: Hybrid
  • Difficulty by Cycle: Medium

Intermodal sections: bike + ferry

Things to see en route
From Comacchio you head towards the famous valleys, one of the vastest humid areas in Italy with its 15,000 hectares. You ride round the perimeter observing the various fishing casoni and the look-out towers for the herons, egrets, terns, black winged stilts and pink flamingos. You reach the Boscoforte peninsula – a narrow dune strip dating back to Etruscan times, about 6 kilometres long – which penetrates into the valleys: crossing the Reno river by ferry, you reach the Sant’Alberto Natural Museum, full of ornithological and entomological collections, where it is also possible to have a guided tour. You continue towards Mandriole to visit the former Guiccioli Farm, where Garibaldi sought refuge and Anita died. Once you reach the coast of Ravenna, you find an extraordinary natural ecosystem: the Nature Reserve of the Reno river, the Nature Reserve of the Coastal Dunes of Porto Corsini and the Pialassa della Baiona. The beaches have an atmosphere of relaxation and holidays. It is time to reach the splendid Ravenna, the city of mosaics, on the Unesco Heritage list: enjoy the Mausoleum of Galla Placida, the Arian Baptistery, the Neonian Baptistery, the Mausoleum of Theodoric, the Church of St. Vitale, the Basilica of Saint Apollinaire Nuovo, the Basilica of Saint Apollinaire in Classe and the Archiepiscopal Chapel.

Description

The route starts from the seventeenth century monumental complex Trepponti, which with its five large stairways is the symbol of Comacchio, this lagoon city founded by the Etruscans, surrounded by water and canals which betray its origins as an island. You start off on a journey through the famous valleys and the just as important former salt mines, for many centuries another great source of earnings. Using a pleasant asphalted road, which becomes gravel, you ride along the outskirts of Valle Campo, Fattibello, Fossa di Porto, Lido di Magnavacca observing little bridges, drop nets, casoni, accompanied by the flight of thousands of birds: it seems like a place suspended in space and in time… Once you reach the Reno river, you can take a ferry which gets you to the other side: you enter the province of Ravenna and shortly afterwards you get to Sant’Alberto, where there is the Nature tour centre dedicated to the particularities of this valley and coastal area (pine woods, marshland, valleys, hygrophilous woodland…). Along the right bank of the reclamation of the river Reno canal you reach Mandriole, where there is the former Guiccioli Farmstead, with an interesting exhibition inside showing mementos from the Garibaldi period seeing as it was here in 1849 that Anita Garibaldi died. Then you head towards the beaches of Ravenna and splendid pine woods: you cross the river Reno Nature Reserve and then pass through Casalborsetti to go alongside the Porto Corsini Coastal Dune Nature Reserve and the Pialassa della Baiona, also in Porto Corsini but this time on the right. Then you pass through Marina di Ravenna and the Pineta di Ravenna National Nature Reserve until you reach Punta Marina di Ravenna, where you can continue with the alternative route towards the south which leads to the beaches of Adriano and Dante. The coveted goal of our journey remains the splendid Ravenna, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Exarchate. The extraordinary traces of this great past, the famous Byzantine mosaics are in front of us and we must enjoy them to the full, remembering all the beauty that we have come across along the Upper Adriatic cycling route.

Conditions: easy route, mainly on secondary roads with light traffic, some stretches of dirt cycling paths in the Comacchio valley

USEFUL ADDRESSES

IAT Tourist Office Comacchio
via Agatopisto 3
T. +39 0533 314154
comacchio.iat@comune.comacchio.fe.it
www.turismocomacchio.it

IAT Tourist Office Casalborsetti
viale delle Viole 1
T. +39 0544 444912
proloco@casalborsetti.it

IAT Tourist Office Porto Corsini 
via Lamone 18
T. +39 0544 447688
iatportocorsini@ravennareservation.it

IAT Tourist Office Marina di Ravenna
piazzale Marinai d’Italia
T. +39 0544 531108
iatmarinadiravenna@ravennareservation.it

IAT Tourist Office Punta Marina
via della Fontana 2
T. +39 0544 437312
iatpuntamarina@ravennareservation.it

IAT Tourist Office Ravenna
via Salara 8/12
T. +39 0544 35404
iatravenna@comune.ra.it
www.ravennaintorno.it

 

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