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Excursions by Mountain Bikeby Riccardo Burchianti Villa di San Martino - Strada di Colle
Reciso - Villa San Martino One hundred metres away from the ample parking ground under the Villa of Napoleon at San Martino, passing in between the various souvenir stands, we’ll find a wide road that ascends into an area rich with vegetation.
The road, despite it’s poor condition, proceeds at a constant altitude almost without the slightest slope whilst along the roadside, pine trees, oak trees and other plants typical of Mediterranean vegetation, arbutus, cytisus and rosemary, can be found. At 5.6 kms. at Buca di bomba, passing
near the ruins of an old house, turning
right into an ample clearing one can enjoy
distant views of the gulf of Procchio.
Turning in a southwesterly direction one
can witness spectacular veiws of Marina
di Campo. Continue for a few hundred metres
and apon arrival at the intersection of
a number of tracks, take the second track
on the right that in slight ascent, leads
us through a pine wood. When we reach the large fire-break, an artificially created clearing used to prevent the spreading of bush fires, we must take a rather steep and somewhat difficult descent that will take us back to the point of departure. LO SCOGLIO … MTB School - This school organises mountain bike courses and excursions, immersed in the green Mediterranean bushland that offers suggestive marine paroramas. The school offers S.I.M.B. instructors that give lessons on the basic fuctions and mechanics of the bike. For further infomation and bookings: CLICLI BRANDI, via Carducci, 33 Portoferraio Tel. 0565-914128 |
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After
a short distance, the road becomes narrow
and steep until, after 3kms., leads us
onto the old military cart track of Colle
Reciso, passing near an old windmill.
