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Ragusa Valley

Name: Ragusa Valley
Rating: 2

Recommended by 17 mountain bikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

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Parco Nazionale del Gargano

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Location: Monte Sant'Angelo, Foggia, Apulia, Italy

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Best Mountain Biking Routes to Ragusa Valley

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1. Casa Natura, Valle Ragusa — Giro ad anello

40.3km

03:22

700m

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

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2. Monte Calvo Trail – Bosco Quarto Nature House loop from San Giovanni Rotondo

47.2km

03:30

760m

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

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3. Quarto Wood – Bosco Quarto Nature House loop from Junno

43.5km

03:34

830m

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

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Marco

December 18, 2022

Included between two hills, Coppa del Monaco to the north and Coppa del Giglio to the south, the long karst valley, running east-west, called Valle Pezzente in the initial section and Valle Ragusa in the final one, is a small forest paradise in the heart of the largest Fourth Wood. A dense and continuous arboreal vault with large trees is found along the whole valley which can be covered completely given the presence of a forest track on the bottom. The valley can be reached and traveled more easily by entering from the San Marco in Lamis-Cagnano Varano road. At the bottom you live immersed under a thick forest vault among Hornbeams, Maples Cerri giants for which a typical association of the Gargano has been recognized and has been defined as Doronico-carpinetum or Doronico-carpinetum birches. The presence of rich formations of ferns, mosses and lichens is also exceptional, testifying to a hot humid climate, a characterizing element of the place. To get an overview of the valley, you need to look out from one of the two hills that delimit them, the Coppa del Monaco to the north and the Coppa del Giglio to the south. Coppa del Giglio is easier to reach starting from the nearby forest barracks.

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Federico Fiori (grufulus bicipitis)

February 9, 2025

Not to be missed, if you are in Bosco Quarto, with its hornbeams and beeches, is the Ragusa valley, originating from one of the numerous east-west oriented tectonic cracks that mark the Gargano promontory between the Umbra Forest and the area of San Marco in Lamis. It is very easy to cycle there, and can be reached by anyone with a minimum of cartography and orientation, yet the impression is that of being immersed in an environment profoundly distant from any human presence.

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Elevation 680 m

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Monday 22 December

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53 %

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Max wind speed: 14.0 km/h

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Location: Monte Sant'Angelo, Foggia, Apulia, Italy

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Ragusa Valley

1. Casa Natura, Valle Ragusa — Giro ad anello

2. Monte Calvo Trail – Bosco Quarto Nature House loop from San Giovanni Rotondo

3. Quarto Wood – Bosco Quarto Nature House loop from Junno

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