The "Renaissance Ring” Trail

The “Renaissance Ring”, L’Anello del Rinascimento (AR) is a hiking trail for getting to know the surroundings of Florence, fascinating for their landscape and nature as well as for the art and history they contain. The whole Renaissance Ring trail is 170 kilometres long and is ideal for hiking or nordic walking; we came across parts of the old Florence road network, now in disuse and disrepair, and we kept away from tarred roads save for a few exceptions. Vertical and horizontal signs accompany tourists and guide them on their way, and since each section of the Ring has a public transport link with Florence it can also be enjoyed as a separate unit. Walking over the hills, in the woods, by the ploughed fields, the hiker crosses areas of great landscape significance.