The best road cycling routes around Medicina

In the Pontesanto neighborhood, street art complements everyday transportation. Murals and artistic interventions created in recent years enhance underpasses, walls, and green spaces, transforming a transit area into a recognizable and vibrant space.

Fascinating village for its architecture and the street art that is scattered throughout the citadel.

After a few hundred meters of dirt road you will find the Etruscan village. This open-air museum is a reconstruction in wood, earth and vegetable fibre. In the center is the altar where lightning often strikes. The Etruscans respected nature and storms and atmospheric events were sacred, perhaps for this reason they had chosen this place to live. The name 'Bibele' derives from the word bibere which means 'to drink', in fact there were many sources of water here.

Small oratory in the countryside of Castel Guelfo, towards Medicina.

Monte del Re is a hill of 345 meters located in the municipality of Bologna. From here you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding hills. It is a destination for hikers and cyclists, but also for families who want to spend a day outdoors.

The clock in the center of the city of Imola is a nineteenth-century mechanism. It dates back to a gift given to the inhabitants of the city by a French officer (who arrived here following Napoleon) who then decided to settle here because he was in love with the city.

In a municipality full of splendid painted walls, a tribute to the favorite sport in these parts could not be missing: cycling. On the wall of a house, Fausto Coppi, the Campionissimo, and Luciano Pezzi, ex partisan, road cyclist and Italian sports manager are depicted. Known for being Marco Pantani's mentor and friend, Pezzi was a good professional in the 1950s. In his last years, Pezzi lived in Dozza, where a youth race is still held in his memory.

Ducia and Dutia the oldest; Dozza the current one. This is the evolution of the name of the village, which passed through the forms of Duza and Doccia, before the final outcome. Many sounds to link this location to a single element: water, the lack of which has characterized its name, and therefore, its history. From the coat of arms of the Municipality, with the griffin drinking, to the findings of an ancient aqueduct coming from Monte del Re, up to the toponyms of the churches, everything connects the name of Dozza to the "shower", a conduit through which the water flows. Almost a paradox, for a village that for centuries has made quality wine a source of wealth and a flag. Inhabited since the Bronze Age, the place was first subjected to the Gauls, then to the Romans. It began to flourish again before the year 1000. It was the Bolognese who surrounded it with walls in 1086 and about two centuries later built the fortress with the ravelin, to defend the entrance to the village. The first written document that tells us about a Castrum Ducie dates back to 1126. For centuries it was the subject of dispute due to its strategic position dominating the Via Emilia. It flourished again and found a certain stability with Caterina Sforza, who rebuilt the fortress. Then, at the end of long disputes, it became a fiefdom of the Malvezzi-Campeggi family. (Source: https://www.comune.dozza.bo.it/la-citta/la-storia)