Monteroni d'Arbia
“Questo territorio ad eccezione di pochi poggetti, le cui cime tufacee non sono state ancora totalmente dalle grandi piogge dilavate e franate, rassomiglia ad un vasto fondo gibboso di antico mare prosciugato. In questo terreno sogliono peraltro prosperare le granaglie, siccome vi prosperano nella subiacente pianura d’alluvione, che è coperta di alberi da frutto, di viti, e segnatamente di mori gelsi, per i quali la raccolta della seta dopo il prodotto del bestiame e dopo i cereali suol essere una delle principali industrie agrarie di questa Comunità”
Monteroni d'Arbia, Ponte a Tressa, Ponte d'Arbia, evocative names of what can be defined as the "river town", gateway along the Francigena road in the south of the province of Siena. The Grancia di Cuna represents the best testimony of a medieval fortified farm. The bridges built over time on the Arbia and on the rivers of the land represented strategic elements from a military and economic point of view. The roads of Valdarbia, which follow the sinuous course of the land, are closely linked to the rivers that cross it to mark a harmonious interweaving of the valley that lives and thrives among the clay gullies that mark its boundaries and characterize it as “that gibbous bottom of an ancient dried up sea”
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Francigena is the main road axis for soft mobility and the routes of major events, such as Eroica and Strade Bianche, can meet the needs of every type of cyclist. The route, however, that characterizes the area more than any other is the one built entirely on secondary roads with low traffic called Tour of Crete Senesi. Together with this other minor itineraries complete a very interesting and varied cycling network.