Follow the tracks traced by the Club Alpino Italiano and marked with red and white indications: they will lead you through our countryside across our woods and villages.

You can also follow other paths such as the ones indicated in the ITINERARIES, section or those described below:

1. Discovering Arno
Duration: 3 hours
Suitable: for everybody

This tour begins from historical Viale Umberto 1st leading to the Ambrogiana Park, the green area surrounding the Medicean Villa. The common has been renewed with young trees and shrubs such as ilex, bay oak, strawberry tree and dog rose. Following the Arno embankment, once passed the Torre hamlet, you can glimpse at Fibbiana village, along a lined avenue in the background of Villa Mannelli, the historical complex restored for residential purposes.

Left the village behind, the large Arno Vecchio plain opens. The name derives from an ancient Arno meander gradually filled to divert the course of the river, project probably started in Leopoldian times.

An interesting part of the river begins here, where the countryside is farmed with orchards, vineyards and cereals and alternates with patches of typical river vegetation; here birds as cormorants, herons, kingfishers and ducks shelter. Not far, a few quarry lakes remain as memory of the old digging activity once in force in the now dismissed dredges.

Finally you reach the small village of Tinaia, where you can plunge in a rural landscape of the past, where the countryside is dotted only with a few farmhouses.

During the tour, stopping in the villages, you can delight your palate with tasty snacks based on local products, such as burischio and soprassata, or try the excellent pizza at the Pizzeria Il Coriandolo in Fibbiana.

2. In San Vito woodlands
Duration: half a day
Suitable: for everybody

Leaving Montelupo behind and following the road along the final part of the Pesa River, you parish reach the church of the Saints Ippolito e Cassiano, in ancient times belonging to Montelupo church and visible only from the ouside.

Not far on the left, via di Bracciatica goes across the surrounding countryside and climbs uphill to Malmantile. The remains of Malmantile walls, S. Pietro in Selva church and the little distant Eremo di Lecceto all deserve attention.

After the hamlet along via S. Vito you reach the S. Vito in Fiore di Selva estate where it is possible to taste and buy typical products and visit the adjacent small church. Descending to Camaioni, the suggestive medieval S. Michele a Luciano church nests in the panorama overlooking the Arno valley.

Along via Tosco Romagnola Nord several ceramics factories are available for direct sale while, not far, you can see the restaurant-pizzeria Antinoro plunged in the greenery. Samminiatello village is another interesting place with S. Miniato church and its oratory, where several paintings are preserved: the Trinity adored by Saints, by Foschi, The Nativity of Madonna by Nigetti and the Madonna adored by Saints.

On the way back to Montelupo you can visit, by appointment only, the Contemporary Ceramics Archive, collecting the ceramics production of the main local workshops from last century.