Panoramic view of Castiglioncello Bay – Cecina Cycle Path loop from Castiglioncello

Panoramic view of Castiglioncello Bay – Cecina Cycle Path loop from Castiglioncello

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Panoramic view of Castiglioncello Bay – Cecina Cycle Path loop from Castiglioncello

02:25

57.1km

300m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 38.2 km for 147 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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10.0 km

View of the Castle of Romito (Livorno)

Highlight • Castle

Halfway between the city of Livorno and its hamlet, Quercianella, there is the Sonnino Castle (or Castle of Romito).
The coastal road (the former SS.1) south of Livorno is mainly flat with an alternation of rocks and sand; the only elevation is a small promontory which in the locality of Romito falls sheer into the sea from an altitude of about ninety meters.
There, on the top, is the Castle that Sidney Sonnino (Premier and then Minister in the 19th century) wanted to be built at the end of the 19th century, to be his home and then his burial place.
The interior of the castle, apart from a large and bright lounge, is rather simple and austere, but the exterior is imposing, with high walls, tower, battlements and a chapel in the surrounding wooded park. The castle was built in neo-Gothic style on a sixteenth-century fortress, erected in turn by the Medici on the remains of a previous watchtower.
The view from the castle is spectacular and comes to show not only the islands of Gorgona, Capraia and Elba, but Corsica as well.

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19.6 km

Panoramic view of Castiglioncello Bay

Highlight • Viewpoint

Panoramic point in the small gulf of Castiglioncello

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28.2 km

Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, Vada

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Beautiful park area

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29.4 km

Secondary road along the Tomboli di Cecina Nature Reserve

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Here you can avoid a little of the Aurelia, even the surface is better than on the Aurelia

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31.5 km

Pineta Molino a Fuoco

Forest

32.8 km

La Mazzanta (Province of Livorno)

Highlight • Beach

La Mazzanta is an agglomeration of houses (mostly holiday homes, populated especially in the summer period) located between Vada and Marina di Cecina in continuation of the Tomboli di Cecina Nature Reserve, of which it constitutes the northern branch, while the southern one extends up to Marina di Bibbona.
It is characterized by some canals (built by the Grand Dukes of Lorraine to reclaim a marshy area and equipped with locks and bridges) and above all by a beautiful uninterrupted pine forest that separates the low and sandy or gravelly coast from the road that connects Vada to Marina di Cecina : it is a secondary road parallel to the former SS.1 Aurelia, but much less busy and still flanked by a cycle path.
Throughout the area there are accommodation facilities (including campsites and tourist villages), bathing establishments and free beaches.

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35.7 km

"Tomboli di Cecina", Biogenetic Nature Reserve

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Both north and south of the Cecina river's mouth lies the "Tomboli di Cecina" Biogenetic Nature Reserve; established in 1839 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II to protect agriculture from the violence and saltiness of the sea winds with a pine forest, it extends for 15 kilometers along the coast with a depth varying from 100 to 600 meters.
The Reserve, which is one of the most beautiful forests in Italy, rich in dense and varied vegetation that differs as you move from the sea towards the hinterland with characteristic plant species, is also a resting and breeding area for numerous animal species and a paradise for hikers or cyclists who can traverse it in any direction on small paths or on a straight and wide dirt road. It is equipped with benches and tables for picnics, but lacks fountains and toilets.
Entry (free) and transit (forbidden to motorized vehicles) are not subject to restrictions.
It can be traversed mainly using the network of paths in the scrubland, partly also cycle paths and - in short stretches - little-trafficked asphalt roads, starting from Via dei Cavalleggeri Nord, in Marina di Bibbona (from South to North) or from Via Nuova dei Cavalleggeri (in the opposite direction). Or you can start from the river mouth in Marina di C., reachable by means of a cycle path from Cecina station.

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38.2 km