La Feniglia Pine Forest Trail – Spanish Mill of Orbetello loop from La Torba

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La Feniglia Pine Forest Trail – Spanish Mill of Orbetello loop from La Torba

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La Feniglia Pine Forest Trail – Spanish Mill of Orbetello loop from La Torba

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40.8km

160m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required.

Last updated: October 9, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 26.4 km for 195 m

Waypoints

Start point

Camping Site

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16.9 km

Archaeological Site

17.8 km

Feniglia Dune Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural Monument

Riserva Naturale Duna Feniglia, a protected area of the Maremma that separates the Orbetello lagoon from the sea, a wonderful and unmissable natural scenery.

A couple of kilometers before entering Porto Ercole, follow the signs for the Feniglia beach, leave your car in the parking lots and continue on foot or by bicycle (you can also rent them on site). Access to the Riserva Naturale Duna Feniglia is free, it is a dune 6/7 kilometers long for a surface of 474 hectares that separates the open sea from the eastern lagoon of Orbetello and connects the Argentario with Ansedonia. It is a true oasis for those who love nature, you walk immersed in silence, surrounded by the intense scents of the pine forest, an ideal environment for walking and cycling in the greenery. Even on the hottest days the shade of the pine trees gives you a pleasant coolness. At regular intervals the paths open up that lead directly to the beach. A very suitable place also for sports, completely flat and equipped with a path with wooden gym equipment.

Along the main path you will also find the stele in memory of Caravaggio, it seems in fact that in 1610 the famous painter was found dying on this beach, to then die soon after in the hospital of Porto Ercole.

In the part that overlooks the lagoon there are the huts for ornithological observation, a nature trail for the blind with handrails and olfactory and tactile stations.

The vegetation is composed of maritime pines, domestic pines, cork oaks, holm oaks, sea lilies, junipers and shrubs of the Mediterranean scrub. As for the flora, the absolute protagonists are the numerous deer that live in total freedom, we also find some wild boars, foxes, badgers, weasels and skunks; finally, the avifauna includes numerous species.

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19.4 km

La Feniglia Pine Forest Trail

Highlight • Trail

10 km of gravel path inside a beautiful unspoiled reserve.

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19.6 km

Riserva della Feniglia

Nature Reserve

24.2 km

Flamingos

Highlight • Natural

Even now, at the beginning of September, there are many flamingos.
Visible to us right next to the parking lot: Near Via dei Macchiaioli, 35, 58015 Orbetello GR, Italy

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24.4 km

View of the Torre delle Miniere

Highlight • Viewpoint

view of the mining tower! Try the descent of the mines

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26.5 km

Spanish Mill of Orbetello

Highlight • Monument

Orbetello is an Italian town of 14 345 inhabitants in the province of Grosseto in Tuscany. It is located in the center of the homonymous lagoon, an important nature reserve.

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26.6 km

Spanish Windmill of Orbetello

Highlight • Monument

The only one left of the 9 fifteenth-century Spanish mills that once dotted the lagoon; initially they worked thanks to the wave motion due to the cyclic entry of the waters into the lagoon, but later, due to needs perhaps also due to the structural modification of the lagoon, they were transformed in the course of the sixteenth century into windmills. The surviving specimen stands a short distance (a few tens of meters) from the end of the isthmus on which the center of Orbetello stands, on the north side of the Leopoldina dam (the bridge that connects Orbetello to the Argentario).

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