Serra San Bruno – Serra San Bruno Town Center loop from Serra San Bruno

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Serra San Bruno – Serra San Bruno Town Center loop from Serra San Bruno

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Serra San Bruno – Serra San Bruno Town Center loop from Serra San Bruno

03:09

49.6km

600m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: November 2, 2026

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182 m

Serra San Bruno

Highlight • Settlement

Serra San Bruno is a charming village that takes its name from the founder of the Carthusians. In its picturesque vicinity stands the famous Certosa di Serra San Bruno, a place that is certainly worth a visit.
The Certosa di Serra San Bruno is a Carthusian monastery dating back to the 12th century, and represents an important historical and religious heritage. This majestic monastic complex offers a deep immersion in the spirituality and tranquility of monastic life.

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238 m

The Archiforo Forest and Shinrin-Yoku

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Bosco Archiforo is located near Serra San Bruno and represents one of the most significant testimonies of the original landscape of the Serre Calabresi. It is a mixed forest of silver fir and beech with majestic plants and very dense vegetation. Qing Li, a Japanese doctor and immunologist, has included this wood among the 40 world sites ideal for Shinrin-Yoku, the "forest bath" that it is strongly recommended to try in the Archiforo, perhaps by being accompanied by the passionate hikers of the Vivi Association Serra San Bruno.

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Serra San Bruno

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The Certosa was built by Brunone di Germania who later became San Bruno and not by Santo Stefano. Very beautiful and above all enormous in terms of the vastness of the territory and of the structures inside it where a dozen industrious Carthusians still live who carry on the Certosa today cloistered and therefore closed to the public. However, an ad hoc museum has been created alongside it which places the visitor at the center of the history of Serra San Bruno and its Certosa. Of his order, today, it is the only one that is "alive" after the mother Chartreuse of Grenoble.

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5.39 km

Stone Water Fountain

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18.5 km

Torre di Ruggiero

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Small characteristic village, hazelnuts are grown. The sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie is very beautiful.

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49.2 km

Serra San Bruno Town Center

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Town at almost 800 meters above sea level which bears the name of Bruno di Colonia, founder of the Carthusian Order, who died here on 6 October 1101. The city is surrounded by beech and silver fir forests.

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49.2 km

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows Maria SS. of the Seven Sorrows, Serra San Bruno

Highlight • Religious Site

Chiesa dell'addolorata Maria ss. Dei sette Dolori, Serra San Bruno
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was built in 1721 according to a project by the Serrese architect Biagio Scaramuzzino.
It has a semi-elliptical facade made of local granite blocks that provide the backdrop for the beautiful bronze door, made in 1961 by Serrese artist Giuseppe Maria Pisani, which contains panels depicting the Seven Passions of the Madonna.
This church, a tangible example of Calabrian late Baroque architecture, has an interior enriched by the presence of stuccoes and decorations, and houses the seventeenth-century marble kiborium with a beautiful temple-shaped tabernacle in marble, semiprecious stones and silver, made by the Bergamo Architects Cosimo Fanzago for the Carthusian Convent Church. After the 1783 earthquake, the ciborium was salvaged and adapted to the church where it still stands today.
Also very particular is the seventeenth-century Christ of ancient Certosa, carried in procession on Holy Saturday on the so-called "Naca", a burial bed that changes every year according to a new aesthetic style in shape and colors depending on the inspiration of its creators is set up.
On the sides of the main altar there are two altars from ancient Certosa, above which there are two altarpieces depicting on one side the passage of Sant'Anna of the Roman school of 1642 and on the other the Apparition of the Virgin Mary to San Bruno depicting 1721 by Paolo De Matteis.
Of considerable artistic value is the seventeenth-century perforated marble balustrade, made by Neapolitan marble masters.
Also worth admiring are the four marble medallions attached to the stalls, representing San Bruno, San Gennaro, San Pietro and San Paolo.
Text / Source: Serra San Bruno
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49.3 km

Church of Santa Maria Assunta

Highlight • Religious Site

It is one of the most popular places of worship in the country, in the Terravecchia district. In summer, the entrance stairway is crowded with people who willingly sit down to spend some time together. The interior houses valuable works.

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49.6 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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48.7 km

600 m

270 m

< 100 m

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