Travelling around the Mugello basin, you can walk for days and days, tracing an enormous ring.

The peaks on the foothills of the Apennines are strung together by sinuous trails that cross through the major watersheds tethering the entire ring of mountains to create a vast amphitheatre around Florence.

The trying geological history has given the landscape both the “soft” contours of the Tuscan hillside and the ruggedness of the steep mountain passes, the gorges and rocks of the Upper Apennines. Moving along the excursion ring that traces the Mugello crests and the hills of the Sieve Valley, some of the most enchanting finds are probably the rocks themselves, the lofty heights, the deep incisions etched on the sides of the river banks that run downhill towards Tuscany and the Padana valley.