From Terranuova to Querceto – Bandella Oasis loop from San Giovanni Valdarno

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Italy

Tuscany

Arezzo

San Giovanni Valdarno

From Terranuova to Querceto – Bandella Oasis loop from San Giovanni Valdarno

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From Terranuova to Querceto – Bandella Oasis loop from San Giovanni Valdarno

03:30

48.0km

460m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 30, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 46 m for 2 m

After 48.0 km for 2 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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7.85 km

Terranuova Bracciolini Public Park – National Bird Fair

Highlight • Rest Area

During the Fair in Terranuova, the Bird Fair is held on Monday, which now boasts over 400 editions. The event takes place in the public park at the Ciuffenna stream and, although it continues to represent an important appointment for the sale, the exchange of decoy birds has expanded in recent decades and has become a market exhibition of tropical birds, and animals from company. The link with tradition, however, has been maintained thanks to the recent reintroduction of the display of barn and courtyard animals, and the competition The whistle of gold, a competition of imitation of bird verses that brings the best to the village " whistlers "of Italy, and with the. During this event, singing and imitation competitions are held: about thirty "garisti" bring with them to sing about a hundred birds, rock thrushes and song thrushes, blackbirds, finches, sparrows and larks, challenging each other in the respective competition fields. The "snappers" instead imitate the singing of four types of birds, the blackbird, the song thrush, the rock thrush and the lark, and the winner is awarded the golden "snail".

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9.07 km

From Terranuova to Querceto

Highlight • Trail

19.2 km

Valle dell'Inferno and Bandella Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

The Valle dell'Inferno e Bandella nature reserve is a protected natural area in Tuscany located along the Valdarno stretch of the Arno. The Nature Reserve develops in the basin of the ENEL hydroelectric power plant in Levane. The Reserve is characterized by a stretch of the Arno River that flows placidly in the Valle dell'Inferno, with depths that vary between 5 and 15 meters and the Bandella Bend, a marshy area, formed in the valley floor of the Ascione Torrent and on the edges of the lake originated from the construction of the dam at the end of the 1950s for the production of electricity.
This area subsequently became populated with the fauna and flora typical of wetlands and the abundant presence of fish, amphibians and invertebrates attracted species of birds which chose this oasis for their reproduction. But at the same time, the lake has not erased the typical flora and fauna that characterized the valley.

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19.3 km

Bandella Oasis

Highlight (Segment) • Forest

The Valley of Hell is like a secret, it is exactly where you would not expect it, next to the highway of the sun and the railway line, along the course of the Arno river.

The stretch of the river between the Romito Bridge and the Ponte dell'Acqua Borra has preserved more than anywhere else typical characteristics of the Valdarno natural landscape with alternating woods and land, partly cultivated, partly abandoned. The steep slopes overlooking the river have been carved over the millennia by the tributaries that have formed the typical impluviums of the borri, rich in mixed woods predominantly of oaks, Turkey oaks and English oaks, and many other species, while in the more humid areas they are present willows, black poplar, alder and elm, and in the warmer ones, rovarella and holm oak, with a typical undergrowth of the Mediterranean scrub.

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