Prices are quite affordable considering it's in San Francisco. Stay and dinner.Īfter breakfast, end of services and return to your home.Stayed here for 2 nights and was pleasantly surprised. Here the ridge path, which is part of an ancient medieval road, heads decidedly south along the border of the Upper Tiber Valley Nature Reserve and, after a flat stretch, reaches a hillock from which you can see Monte Penna, unmistakable for the large and flat summit, behind which La Verna rises. This stage takes place between Romagna and Tuscany, in a landscape that ranges between Valmarecchia, Valle del Savio and Valtiberina. Road surface: carriageways, paths, secondary roads Continuing in the wood at the bottom of the valley, first on a beautiful mule track flanked for a stretch by stations of the Via Crucis then on a splendid stone road, called "Via Granducale", because it was built by the Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany for a pardon received, you reach the locality of Balze. San Francesco passed through here returning to La Verna from the nearby hermitage of the cell. Its presence has been documented since 1043 and, according to an ancient tradition, it was founded by San Romualdo. Near the Verghereto, we find the Hermitage of Sant'Alberico. The stage takes place mainly on gravel roads and paved roads with little traffic that make the journey faster while enjoying the panoramas that can be admired. The landscape changes radically, passing from a bucolic and rural environment to a mountainous one, typical of the Apennines. You return to Valmarecchia, in the highest part of the valley. Road surface: carriageways, forest paths, secondary roads The village is one of the main Franciscan places in Montefeltro. The route runs almost entirely on sheep tracks and dirt roads, with some stretches of asphalt, up to Sant'Agata Feltria, at the entrance of which we find the Convent of the Capuchin Friars (guesthouse) and the Convent of the Poor Clares (guesthouse). With this stage you descend again to the valley floor and then go up again to the opposite ridge which delimits the hydrographic left bank, beyond which, in the Savio Valley, is Sant'Agata Feltria. Road surface: cart tracks, secondary roads, dirt roads Francis received Mount La Verna as a gift from Count Orlando Catani of Chiusi, which later became one of the most important places in the history of Franciscanism. From the convent you then quickly reach San Leo, completing the last stretch with the beautiful view of the cliff dominated by an imposing fortress, as Dante recalls it in the Divina Commedia. Among pastures, cultivated fields and wooded patches, you reach the Convent of Sant'Igne, one of the most significant destinations on the Way. You walk mainly on dirt roads and some stretches of asphalt. The route enters the stupendous landscape of the middle-high Valmarecchia, dominated by rugged cliffs, dominated by fortified fortresses. Road surface: carriageways, secondary roads XIV and consecrated on 16 June 1400 the cloister with the famous cypress and the chapel of San Francesco. Tradition tells us that San Francesco, traveling through Valmarecchia, probably coming from Rimini in 1215, stopped here at a country chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross and erected a poor hut in wood and branches, the first nucleus of the current convent, documented for the first time in 1311. The first stage starts from the Cathedral (Malatestiano temple - former church of San Francesco), reaching the beautiful historical-naturalistic route along the bank of the Marecchia river up to Villa Verucchio.
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