Gillian Price

Walking in Tuscany


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      WALKING IN TUSCANY

      by Gillian Price

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      JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,

      OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL

      www.cicerone.co.uk

      About the Author

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      Gillian Price has trekked throughout Asia and the Himalayas, but now lives in Venice and is exploring the mountains and flatter bits of Italy. Starting in the Italian Dolomites, Gillian has written outstanding Cicerone guides to walking all over Italy as well as Corsica and Corfu. An adamant promoter of public transport to minimise environmental impact, Gillian is a member of Mountain Wilderness and in 2009 was elected as a councillor to the Venice branch of the Italian Alpine Club. Check her out at www.gillianprice.eu.

      Other Cicerone guides by the author

      Across the Eastern Alps: E5

      Alpine Flowers

      Gran Paradiso: Alta Via 2 Trek and Day Walks

      Italy’s Sibillini National Park

      Shorter Walks in the Dolomites

      The Tour of the Bernina

      Through the Italian Alps – the Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA)

      Trekking in the Alps (contributor)

      Trekking in the Apennines – the Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA)

      Trekking in the Dolomites

      Walking and Trekking on Corfu

      Walking in Italy’s Stelvio National Park

      Walking in Sicily

      Walking in the Central Italian Alps

      Walking in the Dolomites

      Walking in Umbria

      Walking on Corsica

      Walking on the Amalfi Coast

      Walking the Italian Lakes

      Walks and Treks in the Maritime Alps

      © Gillian Price 2018

      Fourth edition 2018

      ISBN: 978 1 85284 712 8

      Third edition 2006

      Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

      Image Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com

      Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI

      Acknowledgements

      First of all, grazie di cuore to Nicola for sharing these fantastic walks and supplying GPS tracks and suggestions. Thanks to my dear parents, Bet and Dave, who survived the book’s reconnaissance stages, bashing through scrub and braving hazardous brambles in the search for elusive Etruscan tombs. Anna and Colleen came along later, then for this fourth edition Marg and Libby joined us to rediscover the mysteries of Pitigliano, while Laura guided us up and down her beloved Alpi Apuane.

      Updates to this Guide

      While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/712/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.

      The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although naturally we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.

      We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to [email protected] or by post to Cicerone, Juniper House, Murley Moss, Oxenholme Road, Kendal, LA9 7RL.

      Register your book: To sign up to receive free updates, special offers and GPX files where available, register your book at www.cicerone.co.uk.

      Front cover: The splendid town of Pitigliano in southern Tuscany (Walk 42)

      CONTENTS

       Map key

       Overview map

       Preface

       INTRODUCTION

       Exploring Tuscany

       Plants and flowers

       Wildlife

       Getting there

       Local transport

       Information

       When to go

       Accommodation

       Food and wine

       What to take

       Maps

       Emergencies

       Using this guide

       THE WALKS

       1 The environs of Florence

       Walk 1 Fiesole to Settignano

       Walk