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Italy
Tuscany
Grosseto

Ponte Tura and La Steccaia – Steccaia Waterfalls loop from Batignano

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Mountain biking trails
Italy
Tuscany
Grosseto

Ponte Tura and La Steccaia – Steccaia Waterfalls loop from Batignano

Moderate

5.0

(3)

24

riders

Ponte Tura and La Steccaia – Steccaia Waterfalls loop from Batignano

03:37

47.1km

600m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 16, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 478 m for 14 m

After 46.8 km for 14 m

Waypoints

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Start point

Parking

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1

266 m

Casa della Memoria, Batignano

Highlight • Historical Site

Batignano is a characteristic medieval village, still today you can admire the remains of the city walls, the keep, the towers, the doors and a three-arched loggia. Like many other fiefdoms in the area, it belonged to the Aldobrandeschi family.
The Walls of Batignano constitute the defensive system of the village, part of the municipality of Grosseto.
A first city wall was built in Batignano during the 12th century to defend the noble area located in the upper part of the town.
As time passed, the center increasingly expanded towards the concentric plateau located at a lower level than the pre-existing noble area; once this process was completed, there was the need to build a further defensive device that would protect the less ancient part.
The construction of the new walls, more external than the pre-existing ones, continued between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and, once completed, they took on a roughly elliptical perimeter.
In the following centuries, the Walls of Batignano followed the fate of the rest of the village, undergoing periods of decline followed by renovation and urban redevelopment works, which led, among other things, to incorporating some sections of curtain wall into the perimeter walls exteriors of residential buildings.
The Walls of Batignano can be divided into two distinct concentric circles, an older internal one and a relatively more modern external one.
The internal walls, trapezoidal in shape, have been almost incorporated into the external walls of the buildings located in the upper part of the centre, among which the ancient keep and a turreted building are recognisable.
The external wall, roughly elliptical in shape, entirely delimits the village, alternating some sections of curtain which have perfectly preserved the original medieval characteristics (western bank of the circle) with others which are incorporated into the external perimeter walls of some buildings.
Two doors open along the external wall (to the north-east and south-west), while a tower rises along the western bank.

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2

1.59 km

Dirt Road to Batignano

Highlight • Trail

Beautiful dirt road leading to Batignano.

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3.51 km

La Scagliata

Forest

4

24.3 km

well done dirt road that leads to the Steccaia waterfalls

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5

24.7 km

Embankment of the Ombrone River

Highlight • Cycleway

Beautiful white road that can be traveled up to the beginning of the Maremma Park

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6

27.8 km

Ponte Tura and La Steccaia

Highlight • Monument

Il Ponte Tura e la Steccaia, rappresentano l'opera idraulica più importante della bonifica della Maremma, promossa prevalentemente durante il periodo lorenese e attuata da valenti scienziati e tecnici.
Ponte Tura è il nome che oggi si dà all'edificio che, con questa forma, fu costruito nel 1914. Al suo posto esisteva già un Ponte Tura eseguito dal Manetti intorno al 1830.
Il Ponte Tura ha proprio il senso di “turare” l'ingresso dell'acqua dell'Ombrone nel Canale Diversivo e di reGolamentarne l'afflusso.
Il Fosso Beveraggio è il solo corso d'acqua rimasto oggi a Ponte Tura. Uscendo a sinistra attraverso l'opera di presa che si trova prima di Ponte Tura, si dirige verso la città e dopo aver passato le chiuse di una piccola centrale idroelettrica, in parte serve all'irrigazione agricola e in parte si interra sotto Via Liri, via della Pace, fino ad uscire al di là del viale Uranio e correre al lato del tracciato del canale diversivo.
Con il termine steccaia si nominarono le derivazioni di acqua dal fiume per l'alimentazione di fossi e canali. Il termine deriva dal fatto che le prime opere di questo tipo erano costruite con palificate e gabbie di legname, ed è poi rimasto in uso per indicare l'opera di derivazione anche quando la modalità esecutiva sostituirà le parti in legno con calcestruzzo e muratura.
Per le opere di bonifica della Maremma grossetana la Steccaia delle Bucacce è la più significativa in quanto alimentava il Primo Canale Diversivo che con l'apporto di acque torbide verso il padule, insieme alle altre opere di drenaggio, ha avuto un ruolo determinate per la soluzione dei problemi delle terre paludose e malariche della pianura tra Grosseto e Castiglione della Pescaia. Inoltre, la Steccaia rappresenta ancora oggi la località dove è ancora presente questa opera di presa.
La Steccaia consentiva, tramite appositi macchinari, di manovrare il complesso sistema di chiuse e cateratte lungo il tratto terminale del fiume Ombrone, garantendo così, grazie alla regolamentazione delle acque, di recuperare terreni da destinarsi all'agricoltura.

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7

28.3 km

Steccaia Waterfalls

Highlight • Waterfall

the waterfalls of the Ombrone river, from this point a series of canals and emissaries that carry the water in the agricultural fields up to Castiglione

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8

38.3 km

View of the Grosseto Countryside

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Beautiful view of the countryside

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9

41.9 km

Beautiful view of the countryside

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47.1 km

End point

Parking

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

26.2 km

10.1 km

8.81 km

1.48 km

429 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

16.4 km

12.1 km

6.69 km

6.17 km

5.43 km

371 m

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Highest point (290 m)

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Wednesday 29 July

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21°C

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Comments

April 11, 2025,Colombaio-Scagliata-Ombrone-Roselle-Nomadelfia e Diga con incontro di pastore maremmano 😟
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important...and so today I ventured alone on this beautiful ride facing unknown roads and deserted scrub...I didn't even meet a cyclist! But what satisfaction! And what a wonder....spring is exploding...

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Beautiful route that includes various types of route: path in the bush, single track, dirt roads, dirt roads, meadow, river embankment... In short, beautiful and fun!

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