{"id":3897,"date":"2011-03-20T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:39:02","slug":"urban-hiking-florence-maiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/urban-hiking-florence-maiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Hiking: Florence to Maiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3898\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3898\" title=\"urbanhike-flowers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike-flowers.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike-flowers.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike-flowers.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring buds on the trees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today was the perfect weather for a good <strong>urban hike<\/strong> &#8211; a good free activity, a way to get some exercise, and very pleasant too. Florence has the advantage of being surrounded by beautiful green hills and from certain areas it&#8217;s very easy to just walk out into the countryside. So if you&#8217;re sick of the city and dying for some fresh air and nature, here&#8217;s a two-hour walking itinerary that will take you from Campo di Marte through fields and up to <strong>Maiano<\/strong>, and back down towards <strong>Coverciano<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Google Map of this hike<\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"550\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216877457603152384620.00049ee989f5c8896d61f&amp;t=h&amp;ll=43.786834,11.297808&amp;spn=0.024785,0.047121&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216877457603152384620.00049ee989f5c8896d61f&amp;t=h&amp;ll=43.786834,11.297808&amp;spn=0.024785,0.047121&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Urban Hike: Florence to Maiano<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<h2>Urban hike itinerary description<\/h2>\n<p>Start your itinerary at the end of via Lungo l&#8217;Affrico in Campo di Marte &#8211; you can take the number 17 ATAF bus to the capolinea (end of the line) to get here. You&#8217;ll see the newly restored Villa Salviatino looming large and yellow across the street. Head there and there&#8217;s a stream lining a street. Take that street and keep the stream on your left for as long as possible. You&#8217;ll take a right and start heading up hill until it looks like the street ends in someone&#8217;s driveway. Then take the unpaved path to your right. Beware of dogs (sometimes loose) behind the gate where the road dips down and is very uneven. You&#8217;ll find a wet area and a bridge in the woods, and then a path that goes through some fields, along another road, and continuing steeply up the hill, you end up in Maiano.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3899\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3899\" title=\"urbanhike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike.jpg?resize=500%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/urbanhike.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where the road disappears.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you come out of the path there is a beautiful little chapel on the road. You&#8217;re at the intersection between the streets down to Florence, one that goes towards Fiesole, and one that goes up a bit more to <strong>Maiano <\/strong>proper. The Fattoria di Maiano is at this corner and has a good self-serve restaurant which is a possible goal of this walk. Just around the corner from there is a cute Romanesque church, and if you continue another 300 meters uphill you get to the cave di Maiano which offers a climbing wall and hiking trails that go in the direction of Fiesole. There is a gelateria here and a big lawn on which we used to hang out, though last time we went it had been fenced off.<\/p>\n<p>Continue the itinerary to head back down to Florence by taking the road that runs alongside the Fattoria&#8217;s property. Be careful as in this first part cars don&#8217;t slow much and it&#8217;s very narrow. At the end of this stretch there&#8217;s a 17th-century villa that is being renovated to make luxury residences; they&#8217;ve been at it for almost 10 years now and seem to make little progress. Here you can take either road but I like to veer right on this street that leads back to via Gabriele d&#8217;Annunzio. In the piazza at the end of this part of the street is a good bar-pasticceria (Cesare) should you need a rest. The number 10 or 17 busses stop nearby.<\/p>\n<p>This walk is fine for anyone who is moderately fit &#8211; there&#8217;s a steep part but we just take it slowly. The circuit takes about 2 hours walking at a pretty moderate pace.<\/p>\n<h2>Photos<\/h2>\n<p>Here are photos of the itinerary in chronological order so you get a sense of what you&#8217;ll see. 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