Tuscany’s exquisite fare is a superb support system for tackling the challenging Chianti stage of the Giro d’Italia
Plus three retro cycling events around Europe
‘The Giro is a wonderful physical tonic, an extraordinary outing in the country, a pilgrimage from one trattoria to another through gastronomic Italy...”
This tantalising glimpse of the 19 stages of the 1949 Giro d’Italia as “a series of restful heavens” was how one reporter related the experience of following the race to Dino Buzzati, the renowned Italian journalist, dramatist and author, who was about to cover his first cycling event for the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Did the multicoloured mob of road cyclists know they were riding through one of the most beautiful regions in the world?
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