The best traffic-free bike rides around Brienza

Rifugio Motola is a historic structure nestled in the greenery of the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park. Main features Origin: Built in 1950 as a barracks for the Forestry Corps. Altitude: Located at 1043 meters above sea level. Panorama: View of the Sella del Corticato and Monte Cocuzzo delle Puglie (1428m). Beds: 8 beds available inside the structure by contacting the managing association. Camping: Possibility to stay overnight outside in a tent.

It's the starting point for several trails on Mount Motola and Mount Vivo. It's located along the "Sentiero Italia," which, as its name suggests, crosses the entire peninsula. Interestingly, the refuge is easily accessible by car; there's parking 50 meters before the refuge, just as the dirt road begins.

Petina is perhaps one of the most mountainous villages in Campania. It sits directly on the slopes of the Alburni Mountains, completely surrounded by centuries-old chestnut groves. The village is very small and offers a grocery store, almost always open and well-stocked, a restaurant renowned for its local dishes, and a bar with tables in a beautiful courtyard.

I'd say it's one of the most beautiful roads in Italy. The descent towards Teggiano is breathtaking.

The Grumentum Archaeological Park preserves, within an exceptionally suggestive landscape, the remains of one of the major Roman cities of Regio III: Lucania et Bruttii. Initially a small Lucanian center allied with Rome, settled since the beginning of the 3rd century BC, it was crossed by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, when he took the side of the Carthaginians, and was the scene of a battle narrated by Livy. Following a slow process of Romanization, which provided for land assignments to the Romans through the centuriation system, the center was monumentalized starting from the middle of the 1st century BC, when it was refounded as a Roman colony. From this period onwards, it was equipped with all the typical monuments of Roman cities, in imitation of the Urbe. Today the site, a unique example in Basilicata of a Roman urban plan that is clearly legible as a whole, allows a visit through the public and private spaces of the Roman city, still delineated by the regularity of the ancient road axes. From the theater you can reach the Italic temple, the domus with mosaics and, along the paving of the main plateia, the area of the Forum with public, civil and religious buildings (Capitolium, Augusteo, Porticus, Curia, Basilica, Forensic Baths). The route then continues to the Terme Maggiori, an extraordinarily preserved thermal complex, rich in luxurious decorative apparatus (mosaics, imported marbles...), to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, which represents the first cathedral when the center became the seat of a bishop. The route ends near the monumental amphitheater, one of the oldest masonry amphitheaters known to us. Strategically positioned on the eastern edge of the hill, it is located overlooking the Pietra del Pertusillo Lake, in the heart of the Appennino Lucano National Park. A visit to Grumentum allows you to fully appreciate the close relationship between archaeology and nature, between landscape and culture. Source Ministry of Culture Discover all our routes on www.viaggiatorelento.com

The Corticato saddle is one of the most spectacular passes in Cilento. The climb from Sacco is long and pleasant, the road has literally been carved into the rock. The saddle is wide and acts as a watershed between Cilento and Vallo di Diano. In June it is tinged with yellow with the fragrant brooms.

Archaeological area of the ancient Roman Grumentum.

An interesting little lake to reach by Mtb, a stop on its banks is highly recommended.