Another day spent far from the relaxing beaches of Cattolica with no regrets.
This morning at breakfast we considered the possibility of another day wandering around awesome Romagna’s hinterland and we decided for this option without replies. My wife Eva and I took a pair of hotel bicycles (free service, very nice service) and we headed to Rimini and its hinterland. We carried with us some travel equipment consisting in a backpack full of food and drinks, a map, a compass, some first aid stuff like bends and generic medicinals, a travel local guide and binoculars.

Cycling lovers can follow a pleasant ring route (55 kilometres, 4 hours by bike) by taking the road that goes out in the direction of San Marino and Santa Maria in Cerreto, where you can follow an unsurfaced road for about 500 metres outside the town center (the crossoroads on the right). Once at Cerasolo, the route goes back onto surfaced roads and after 3 kilometres comes to a church, where you can turn into an unsurfaced road again and go down towards Mulazzano.

After this hard biking we had a little break eating our sandwiches and drinking our energetic drinks, taking some pics around Mulazzano like a couple of japanese photo-
enthusiasts.

We realized that we have reached Marano Park, a guarded natural oasis that preserves wildlife landscapes. We decided to head to Marano River, the heart of the park. Once at the river side we proceeded straight ahead heading north, along the right bank of Marano, admiring its calm blue water. We met a a junction with the unsurfaced road which lead to Vallecchio and suddenly decided to take it in order to reach the provincial road to Rimini. But we messed the things up with our map and we arrived in Coriano (which opening image refers to), wich is a beautiful medieval town with a splendid 15th century Castle that we visited in about an hour. From Coriano a detour to the old village of San Clemente is worth in order to admire Malatesta fortifications. Finally we returned to Cattolica via Morciano, a nice village under Carpegna mountain.

We arrived in time for diner without energy to eat the wonderful roasted fish that was waiting for us , then we spent our last energies undressing and finally falling asleep for a very long time. zzzz

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Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Biking, Romagna, Country.
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