{"id":132,"date":"2019-09-19T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeodyssey.cc\/hunting-hannibal\/?p=132"},"modified":"2020-09-04T01:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:31:26","slug":"day-28-life-is-good-in-tuscany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeodyssey.cc\/hunting-hannibal\/2019\/09\/19\/day-28-life-is-good-in-tuscany\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: Life is Good in Tuscany!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">On the Road: Distance: 104km I 65mi I Elevation: 1727m I 5666ft<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We headed straight out of Siena into the Val d&#8217;Orcia, a stunning UNESCO recognised landscape. The riding is rolling but this is truly the idylic Tuscany imagined when people dream of visiting the area. We rolled through Asciano, San Giovanni d&#8217;Asso and Montisi to Pienza for lunch. Known as the &#8220;Ideal City&#8221; it is a nice place to pause and appreciate this exceptional region. From lunch we immediately climbed a 22% cobblestone 0.5km into the old town of Pienza, then we rode along the top of a ridgeline before plunging into Montepulciano and beyond to the plain, as we crossed towards Umbria and Trasimeno, where Hannibal again came up against a formidable Roman army. We are in Tuscany one more night at the beautiful medieval hill-town of Cortona which tested our legs at the end of a rolling day! It was a 5km, 6% grade uphill finish! Not only that, but in both leaving Siena and entering the old city of Cortona we had to manoeuvre around tourists wandering aimlessly for a km or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.relive.cc\/view\/vQvxVDP3oB6\">https:\/\/www.relive.cc\/view\/vQvxVDP3oB6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Field Notes &#8211; Val d&#8217;Orcia<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The magnificent natural scenery of the Val d&#8217;Orcia that extends through the Tuscan hills was inserted onto the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004. Val d&#8217;Orcia fuses art, landscape and ecosystem in one geographical space, and is the expression of a series of marvelous natural characteristics. It is also the result of and testament to the people that has long-inhabited it. In fact, according to UNESCO this Valley is an outstanding example of the way in which a natural setting was redesigned during the Renaissance (14th-15th Centuries), reflecting the ideals of good governance in the Italian City-State. 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