Saint Francis Ways from Rimini to La Verna – The Steps

Saint Francis Ways from Rimini to La Verna - The steps

Rimini – Villa Verucchio

Km 22,8- Travel time 5 h 10 min The first leg starts from Rimini Train Station, ideally “door” east of the Way. You cross quickly the historic center reaching the first hills behind the town and the Valley of Marecchia. In the city, the route touches the church of Santa Chiara, where probably San Francesco stayed …

Villa Verucchio – San Leo

Km 21,8- Travel time 6 h The route goes into the beautiful landscape of the middle-high Valmarecchia, dominated by rugged cliffs and crowned by fortresses. You  walk mainly on roads unpaved and some stretches of asphalt. From the cloister of Santa Croce you continue straight on Via Convento, getting off at SP Marecchiese, and after …

San Leo – Sant’Agata Feltria

Km 22,9 – Travel time 5 h  10 min You go down again to the valley and then up on the opposite ridge that borders the left hydrographic bank, beyond which, in the Valle del Savio, there is Sant’Agata Feltria. The stage twists and turns most entirely though dirt tracks, with some stretch of asphalt. It …

Da Sant’Agata Feltria a Balze di Verghereto

Km 22,2 – Travel time 7 h 15 min After Sant’Agata Feltria we return in Valmarecchia, on the highest part of the valley, where the landscape changes radically, from a bucolic and rural setting to a mountainous place, typical of the Apennines. The stage is carried out mostly on small roads gravel and paved roads …

Da Balze di Verghereto a La Verna

Km 24 – Travel time 8 h 10 min This stage shortens the path originally conceived, joining directly Balze to La Verna, eliminating the intermediate step Verghereto-Balze. It takes place between Romagna and Tuscany, in a landscape that sweeps over the ridges between the Valmarecchia, the Valley of the Savio and the Tiber Valley. This path …

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