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For decades, attracts tourists to Tuscany. If it is too full for enjoyable bike tours? Not if they were drives on behind the scenes.


Excellent food, fine wines, an elegant craft, high art. All this is a tradition in Italy’s most important cultural landscape. Not only the members of the formerly more politically left-wing “Tuscany Group” as Schroeder, Fischer, Engholm or Schily have here broken homes and estates under the nail, but CDU people or wealthier “dropouts” who want a relaxed, meaningful existence in the Mediterranean, light-filled natural hoped. Read, write, grow wine or olive paint, pottery, the list is long with a life in Tuscany associated desires and drives citizens of all stripes today to earn a “Rustico” in a lovely village or rural idyll.

The road to Castel Poggio and Gragnana again spoiled with everything that makes the Apuan Alps so appealing: no traffic, curves, drops and climbs to the “Schwindligfahren”. Then with its Carrara White Mountains. Beginning Michelangelo marble picked for his groundbreaking sculptures. Today, entire mountaintops are removed; huge, extremely heavy blocks are placed on trucks and shipped to the valley in the world.

Woe, when such a truck slipped on the steep slopes. Or withhold its brakes.Then there is no salvation. We get up close several times to marble quarrying, as we absurfen spaßmaximierte the road from Castelnuovo Seravezza direction: Highway pleasure in pure culture. High up in the marble quarries, almost to the escarpment, all very intense adrenaline. And again and again curves, curves, curves. How do you measure up to Bagni di Lucca, nothing changes.

But Tuscany is tired from the long-term onslaught of tourist demands.Their famous wine villages, towns full of tradition-laden world-renowned architectural and art works are clogged with tour buses and people from all over the world, with hundreds of like China. Convoys of trucks, buses and cars rolling over the great roads, a bike tour in Tuscany are no longer what it once was. Unless you open up the charms of this magnificent area by the back door and keeps out of the tourist centers.

That is our mission, as we leave the A15, the durchschlangelt the Apennines to La Spezia, in Aulla. On the south 63 to Fivizzano the fun begins: grippy asphalt, beautiful curves, which are sometimes cut boldly by an oncoming Alfa, otherwise pure pleasure. The leaves are still on the increase over Ministraßchen Terenzano, Reusa, or Vigneta Gragnola.

Here you are alone, falling from one corner to the next and the jungle-like bushes shaved off the outer leaves. The heart of Northern Tuscany must lie very close. Maybe it’s a small town such as vinca, a lost, unvarnished Bergkaff that lies yet full of color and temperament, which the village children will never tire of proving to their bikes.

In the only grocery store lubricates la Mama us cheese sandwiches and filled water into thirsty biker’s throats. Surrounded by the Dolomite-like rock towers Vinca radiates originality, a coach would not provide the road. According to the map you can about the Rifugio Belvedere on gravel to Carrara, but for a medium enduro sometime in piles of debris and snow-circuit terminations.

The bar is set so high that the road to Montecatini Terme and Pistoia are no longer perceived as spectacular. It lacks the views of the sea, boldest street layout is lost in deep forests, and the villages seem rough and unromantic. This should be the Tuscany? On the way back to Vinci is what you look at Tuscany commonly imagined: rolling hills, cypress trees, vineyards, space and light. Exactly did the “Tuscany Group”. Pay too little known wines we devote time to look for extended trips over the smallest rural roads, which give us insight into the life that Tuscany has previously received coverage: idyllic, quiet and solitude. Gambassi Terme performs a euphoric road to Volterra, south of the curve remains indulgence, but the dress again in Tuscany inhospitable mountain forests and narrow valleys.

The geothermal power plants in the Metalliferous look like from another planet.

Total recovery from the dust of the roads promises the beaches of the island. The largest of the existing seven Tuscan Archipelago islands has been able to maintain its charm despite the tourist rush. Still, there are secluded bays, secret wine cellar and the shadowy memories of archaic times when ore was mined on Elba.

It’s wonderful Tuscan mainland farther from Grosseto to small villages, which cling like birds’ nests in the mountains, to Arcidosso. The heart beats in time with the change of curves, and then magically Ugo, host of the restaurant “Aiuole” an incredible benefit from additional food and wine on the table. At least now you can understand Schroder, Fischer and Co… Understand just why the guys were not in Tuscany to motorcyclists. That would have been the true fulfillment.