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Are you an experienced cyclist?
(by Marco Pierfranceschi)
That is better...!!! Better…!!! Therefore we do not have to explain how much does good to you to ride bicycle, the emotion to throw itself down for one come down, what test to arrive itself in top to one gone up, the wind in hats and all the rest. But you could be a sport ciclista, like us of are many, to which it interests the result alone, the affirmation, prevailing on the others: in such case of things from dirti of it we have many, hoping to succeed makes to understand how much you our way to ride bicycle is various from yours.
Before it is that the bicycle, for we, is in the first place freedom. Freedom means to be able to go where we want, with the step that we prefer, leaving and arriving when it seems to us, riappropriarci of our time…
Freedom is to run, if it goes to us, to make also efforts intense, but for desire to only make it, not because us it imposes contest regulations, in order not to feel us more forts than qualcun other, in order not to see to deliver to us, to the end, a trophy, one goblet, one medal…
Freedom is to travel by themselves, without having some to answer to nobody, but also to choose to move in group with other persons who share the same approach to the bicycle…
Freedom is to run ahead, if we want, but also to choose to adapt itself to the step of someone less trained in order to make acquaintance, to speak, to be confronted, to discuss, to share the own experiences…
Freedom is to choose, instead asserting the own individuality, putting themselves to the service of the others, in order to teach they the way better than to ride bicycle, to help them to find the correct position in saddleback, to use the change in the more suitable way, to dose the effort in order to arrive in top to the climbs in saddleback to the bici, rather than on foot…
Freedom is not to please itself to always rifare the same roads, always the same routes, but to try covered new, to visit disowned localities, to explore the territory…
Freedom of being able to make, if it wants, also one hundred/centocinquanta kilometers in a single day, or, if it is preferred, to please itself of forty/fifty also to catch up one far locality and never visited before and to take the time, in the course dell? excursion, in order to study historical, artistic, cultural, situated testimonies archaeological…
Freedom is to pick the occasion to deepen the acquaintance of the places visits to you, than they cannot and solos like rising must not have lived of “found them” that it has the only function to make from “choreography” the “show” of the athletic gesture.
Freedom is also to detach itself from the stereotypes of the “vacation” to the sea or in mountain in order to face travels in bicycle in the other countries, to renounce to the lightness of the vehicle, too much often paid to beloved price, in order to load over ags and baggages to us and to conquer the self-sufficiency on the long distances?
Freedom is to exit in bicycle from one station or an airport of a foreign country and to think: “Well, I have all a country to explore and two or three weeks of time, we see how many things I succeed to see and to learn”.
For all these reasons we think that the closely sport activity, the merely competitive approach, evidences of the bicycle only its dimension of “gymnastic tool”, giving up to explore its nature truer than half than transport.
Means of transport to measure of man and woman that for very many cyclist sportswomen she is still all to explore, and that we invite to you, abandoning the usuals cliché, to discover we with.
Biketourism to explore nature and baroque
In the Southeastern angle of the Sicily, from Palazzolo Acreide to Siracusa, to the discovery of naturalistic oases and baroque wonders it is possible to carry out tour of 8 days (7 nights), with daily stages of 40 - 60 kilometers, dedicated to the cycle amatori that they love to travel single, but without to renounce to one series of services in a position to rendering also the vacation comfortable on two wheels.
Itineraries
In the entroterra of Siracusa, to the feet of the Mounts Iblei, the citizen of Palazzolo Acreide, point of departure of the route, one deserves one pause at least day. For the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Akrai, to visit in the archaeological zone. And for the historical center, a intrico of alleys that pass beside esuberanti facades, balconies in wrought iron, portali carved from artisan masters. Heart of the baroque nucleus, public square of the People, with the church of Saint Sebastiano; to see also the Church Mother, of Saint Paul and the Announced one. For a greedy pause, the ancient Corsino pastry shop is advised, in National way, where to choose between cassate, freeze to you, tartlets to the almonds and the honey of the Iblei mounts. For supper, the trattoria Andrea Sapori Montani (via Maddalena 24, tel. 0931.88.14.88), that it proposes, between the other, butterflies with zucchine, tomato and mint, rabbit in bittersweet, pecorino to saffron, prosciutto of Giarratana.
City jewel of the sicialian baroque, Modica is the second stage of the travel. In order to catch up it from Palazzolo, it must pedalare for 45 kilometers through a sour and wild territory, with features in climb that demand a remarkable effort. But once it arrives to you, enough an assay of the most famous chocolate, worked here still handicraft to cold, second the ancient prescriptions of the Aztecs, than in a moment forgets the hard work. The turn of the pastry shops cannot that to begin from the Ancient Dolceria Bonaiuto, city institution in course Umberto I, than from 1880 it produces single chocolate with cacao, sugar and spezie. Continuing in the same one via, s' the Gelateria Ciacheria, whose specialty is cremolata with fichi and the chocolate, and Donna meet Elvira, that it prepares typical leccornie like the impanatiglie, the cakies of almonds, the martorana fruit.
Spezie and cacaos are found again to supper in the refined proposed culinarie inventions to the Small farm of the Towers, celebre restaurant in vico Napolitano (tel. 0932.75.12.86), where the traditional kitchen rivisitata with maestria. The delights of Modica, but, do not satisfy alone the palate: rich city of art and history is one, with one colorful high part that s' inerpica on the flanks of one full of rocks spur, dominated from the settecentesca church of Saint George and from its scenografica perron of 245 steps. To the feet of the full of rocks spur, Low Modica is cut to half from Umberto course: from a part the church of Saint Peter, with a wide animated baroque perron from the statues of the 12 apostles; from the other lachiesa of Saint Maria di Betlem, with inside the precious Nail head of the Sacramento, splendid example of tardogotica architecture - rinascimentale. It deserves, at last, a visit the house of Salvatore Quasimodo, in via Posterla (tel. 0932.75.38.64), with some memories of the poet and one small library originates them.
Modica, the way of the baroque door to Scicli, a small center outside from the usual tourist routes, incastonato between high walls of cliff, throats and coves of carsica origin. Admired the facade of Palazzo Beneventano, expression of that visionaria fantasy that in the 1700's animated artists and architects sicialian, is resumed to pedalare towards the sea, inebriandosi of sun and wind, until catching up the port of Pozzallo. From here, the fourth day, is pushed to us along the coastal road until the extreme aims meridional of the Sicily, the Head of the Currents. Therefore, it makes stage to Marzamemi, seafaring village from the vaguely Arabic atmosphere, with gustosi restaurants of fish and a farm holidays to attend for the night the arrival of the cicloturisti. The morning after, going back the coast towards north, before the stage is the natural oasis of Vendicari. On foot, since it is of obligation to leave the bici the entrance of the park, explore marshes and swamps popolate from aironi, migratory fenicotteri, birds. And it arrives you to the beach, if the climate allows it, can be taken a bath in a crystal sea. Rimontati in saddleback, is continued for Famous, not one city, but a visionari museum to stone made open lace sky, honor, sontuose facades. Entering from the Real Door, constructed in 1838 in honor of Ferdinand II of Borbone, it is all to ollow of churches from the imposing perrons, like Saint Salvatore, Saint Domenico eil convent of Chiara Saint. To make from huge frame, palaces: between the others, Ducezio palace, with the splendid Hall of the Mirrors, and palazzoVilladorata, with six balconies supported from putti, sirene, horses, grifoni.
Per For a pause, the pastry shop old Fontana, in Immaculate public square, is famous for granita to the almonds the white women and the cake to annealed and pistachio nuts.
Last the two days of the travel are dedicate to you to Siracusa, whose long and glorious history, than is reflected in the strabiliante variety of the architectonic styles, ago to pass in second slowly all the other sicialian cities. (cfr. fotogallery)
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