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San Lazzaro Di Savena

Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)

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San Lazzaro Di Savena

Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)

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Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)

Name: Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)
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Location: San Lazzaro Di Savena, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Best Mountain Bike Rides to Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)

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1. Mountainbike loop from Ozzano dell'Emilia

32.5km

02:40

460m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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2. View of Val di Zena – Montecalvo Trail loop from Bologna Rimesse

43.8km

03:25

760m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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3. Monte Calvo Singletrack – Montebello Clay Quarry loop from Bologna Mazzini

67.8km

05:26

1,340m

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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Tips

Davide M. 🇮🇹

May 18, 2020

FABULOUS OVERVIEWS on Badlands and hills.

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Daniele Piccinini

June 27, 2020

Panoramic point

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Gianluca Lombardi

October 3, 2020

Tips for eBikes. Remarkable landscape and experience. You ride in the middle of nature with beautiful views. The climbs, if not in some specific and rare sections, are obviously within the reach of the ebike. Pay attention to some descents, not technical, but which require a little attention given the presence of "scanna ditch" where the out of the saddle and a bit of technique are a must. Alternatively, slow down. Passage on the ridge of the evocative badlands

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Gulliver Bike

April 28, 2021

Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park
At the gates of Bologna, the Regional Park of Gessi Bolognesi protects a landscape of crystalline chalk outcrops and badlands. They are the most characteristic mineral expression, and which allows the survival of spontaneous nature oases just a few kilometers from the city. It is one of the most important and studied karst complexes in Europe, that of the Bolognese gypsum is an area of great beauty, rich in spectacular erosive forms and cavities, where plant and animal species of considerable scientific interest find refuge. The Idice stream crosses it, marking the eastern sector of the park, where the gentle rolling hills of Ozzano dell'Emilia are interrupted by the tormented ridges of the Abbadessa gullies. Five thousand hectares of protected area to protect landscape, naturalistic and historical values of the highest order, above and below the ground level. The appearance of the vegetation is mosaic: from the arid and sunny outcrops to the broad-leaved woods typical of the Apennine mountains.
The complex system of caves is famous, explored in the past by scholars and enthusiasts, which has returned many fossils collected at the Donini Archaeological Museum.
The Spipola cave is the only one that can be visited accompanied by specialized personnel, also accessible to schoolchildren, and which allows you to observe a suggestive and peculiar world, in the past endangered by the extraction of the so-called selenite, a material widely used in the urban buildings of Bologna up to the 19th century. Scaly clays, on the other hand, form the gully landscape typical of the easternmost part of the area, with rich spring blooms of Sulla and Ginestra.

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Marco Marani

March 20, 2024

Beautiful! Done in gravel, but it was better in MTB. Some passages are a bit excessive and I pushed the bike, mostly for fear of falling into the gully...

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Distance 7.34 km

Uphill 120 m

Downhill 50 m

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Location: San Lazzaro Di Savena, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Ridge between the Zena and Idice Valleys (Gessi Bolognesi and Calanchi dell'Abbadessa Regional Park)

1. Mountainbike loop from Ozzano dell'Emilia

2. View of Val di Zena – Montecalvo Trail loop from Bologna Rimesse

3. Monte Calvo Singletrack – Montebello Clay Quarry loop from Bologna Mazzini

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