29.09.2023 ROMAGNA TRAIL 4TH EDITION
The 2023 route is modified by about 60/70%.
The Romagna Trail is not just a bikepacking event but a unique experience.
RT represents a wonderful friendship aggregator: little bicycle adventurers in the most pristine and splendid Romagna who will meet while pedaling together!
Allowing you to pedal freely is an honor for us and immense pleasure.
You will pedal in complete self-sufficiency and you will dictate your pace: alone, with your friends or with new travel companions. RT begins in your home cellar: the bike, what to take with you or leave at home, learning how to get by, managing the unexpected. A test, under the right conditions, to get out of the daily routine for a few days, living in the middle of nature
and stepping out of the comfort zone. By disengaging from everyday life, from stress, from the electronics that dominate us every day… dedicate some time
to your spirit and body.
It's time to do what we sometimes complain we don't have.
A meteorological front of Atlantic origin, fed in turn by a Mediterranean cyclone, generated, in the month of May2023, the most serious flood in the history of the Romagna area (from Rimini to Bologna). Persistent rains, floods, overflows and landslides have completely transformed Romagna and made many roads and paths inaccessible and unpassable.
Therefore, the original date of 17 June has been postponed, for now as a preventive measure, to 29 September 2023.
WE WORK HARD TO COME BACK STRONGER THAN BEFORE !
TRACE
Lenght : 329 km / D+ 6,890 mt
A track in .gpx format will be provided which you will have to cover entirely
(in order to be included in the "finisher"); no matter how many days, nor with what pace. Take your time, enjoy the landscapes and be satisfied your free spirit. The Romagna Trail is an adventure, not a race!
UNSUPPORTED
You will travel in complete autonomy and freedom, without any kind of external assistance but with the support of your travel companions. You will be able to choose how many km to cycle during the day, at night, where to sleep and where to eat, respecting the environment and the territory.
The 2023 edition foresees the start and finish in Forlì, after a ring of about 400 km and 7000 m altitude gain. On your bike
(mtb, gravel, monstercrosso or e-bike) you will travel the paths within the most beautiful areas of Romagna, from a landscape and otherwise point of view.
Continuing along the route you will come across important sites of historical interest and monuments.
You will cross centuries-old pine forests along the Romagna coast, where you can stop in the evening to savor a plate of fresh fish or simply a "pida cun e parsot" and stay overnight in one of the many seaside resorts on the coast.
Pedaling towards the highest peaks, you will leave the cities of Romagna behind, to enter the pristine woods of the hinterland. Taking advantage of the more agile gears of your travel companion, you will slowly climb to the 1000 meters above sea level of Mount Fumaiolo, where you can visit the source of the Tiber; you will walk through woods and hermitages, a section of the path "00" (part of the Gea) and some of the forest paths of the integral nature reserve of Sasso Fratino, a Unesco heritage site, located within the national park of the Casentino Forests, one of the most beautiful in Italy.
Finally you will go down to the valley always away from asphalt and traffic, meeting villages, ridges and ancient mills, along.
From here on, after a few km of dirt road and long rival, you will reach the end of this wonderful journey, greeted by applause and an ice-cold beer!
Distance
350
Altimetry
7400
DAY : 3 or more
Dirt road
75/85%
Max height
1520mt
THE BIKEPACKER
Km after km, day after day, you will feel stronger and more adventurous at every moment. The world exists because it is to be explored and that miracle
which is called a bicycle will allow you to experience it and enjoy it at the right pace, the slow pedalling.
The Romagna Trail will let you discover a little piece of this world, in small steps and with the right amount of madness and safety. Madness will transform distance into adventure and safety will transform fatigue into an undertaking that you will never forget. Whether it's sunny or rainy, your spirit will thank you for this taste of purity and you will enter a whirlwind where the bike will become your means of travelling! Our aim.
Let's save the Earth. ToBeGreen!
DATE EVENT (to be confirmed in the first weeks of September 2023 according to the state of emergency "Flood 2023")
A) BIKE TRAIL EVENT
-Friday 29 September 2023, 8.00 am, start of the cycle path
Starting point: FORLI', FC, "FRANCO AGOSTO" URBAN PARK
B) EVENT PACKAGE COLLECTION
- Thursday 28 September 2023 from 17.30 to 23.00
- Friday 29 September 2023 from 07.00 to 08.00,
at THE CAMP VILLAGE RT2023
FORLI', FC, "FRANCO AGOSTO" URBAN PARK
C) THE CAMP VILLAGE RT2023 :
-Thursday 28 September 2023, from 17.00 to 24.00, in FORLI', PARCO URBANO "FRANCO AGOSTO".
From around 7.30 pm, PASTA PARTY ROMAGNA "LONTAN DA TE NON SI PUO' STAR" + beer with Mazapegul's friends and stand bike
Registrations :
from 2 January 2023
CLOSE REGISTRATION : 15/09/2023
Participation fee:
Men
65.00 euros from 01/04/2023 to 15/09/2023
Women
50.00 euros from 01/04/2023 to 15/09/2023
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
―Ernest Hemingway
