Castelnuovo Berardenga is known as the «butterfly of the Grand Duke» for the enviable characteristics of a territory inside two wings enhanced by a variety of environments representing the best synthesis of what the Sienese can offer. The Chianti, the Crete and the Sienese hills, as well as a part of the Ambra valley which, from the Ombrone, leads to the Arno. Honestly, we could not expect more and better from the creator if not a strip of sea and a high and snowy mountain. But it would have been too much to ask and, after all, it would have put at risk the harmony of the places that hosted the waters of an ocean during the Pliocene. The fossils of «Lamna nasus», a prehistoric shark found in the countryside of Castelnuovo between the hills of Chianti and the Val d'Arbia, are good evidence of this.

The roads of the Berardenga ring therefore unravel in such beauty and offer the most beautiful honeymoon that the bride and groom, Chianti and Crete, can do in one day and then be able to retire in one of the many thalami immersed in nature that Castelnuovo offers with great generosity.

The route is entirely on paved roads with low traffic and can be done with any type of bike. Despite the continuous ups and downs does not involve particular difficulties. Also for this reason it is proposed in only two stages that do not prevent taking the stops you like in the POINT of San Piero, Villa a Sesta and San Gusmé, without neglecting that the GATE of Pianella is located not far from the route, from which you can decide to take other routes from Eroica and the two suggestive proposals of gravel rings, Berardenga and Chianti.