Cycling: great success for GeoGravel Tuscany

Pomarance (Pisa), 3 June 2024 – Great success at Pomarance for the second edition of GeoGravel Tuscany, created by Paolo Bettini, with great guests and almost 250 participants. An event to make the world aware of the wonder of the Strade Grigie. Nearly 250 participants arrived from all over Italy to enjoy three days of celebration, music and cycling in the land of Tuscan geothermal energy. On Saturday 18 brave people set off to tackle the Ultra route of 250 km and over 5,000 meters of altitude difference, while in the evening at the Piazzone the great party was staged, inflamed by the music of Saturnino, Jovanotti’s historic bassist, who with his sound unleashed hundreds of people who arrived in Pomarance from all over Tuscany and beyond. On Sunday morning, the over 200 participants registered for the three routes, Short (46 km), Medium (77 km) and Long (110 km), set off to discover the geothermal area. Among them the great guests of GeoGravel Tuscany 2024: Paolo Kessisoglu, Marco Bandiera, Luca Paolini, already present at the first edition, who this year were joined by Giovanni Visconti, the national coach Daniele Bennati and “the Lion of Flanders” Johan Museeuw. The participants were able to discover timeless villages such as Libbiano, Querceto, Canneto, Serrazzano, travel tens of kilometers of Strade Grigie immersed in lunar landscapes between Mediterranean scrub and oak woods, and then of course the green power of geothermal energy of which Larderello it is the world capital with its power plants and its sulphurous water springs which make this territory unique in the Italian panorama. Returning to the “Piazzone”, the event ended with a pasta party, where old friends and new acquaintances toasted the success of the second edition of GeoGravel Tuscany after three days of celebration. These are the words of Paolo Bettini, creator of the event: “Having archived the second edition of the growing GeoGravel Tuscany, we are now certain that it is a type of event that is popular and increasingly successful. This applies both to the more strictly “gravel” part – a clearly growing movement also in Tuscany, the perfect region for this type of activity – and to the GeoFestival, where this year we had the extraordinary performance of the international artist Saturnino who made Saturday evening was memorable. I would like to thank the people and organizations that support GeoGravel and make it possible, starting with the municipal administration of Pomarance, the guys from Velo Etruria Pomarance and of course all our precious partners. What can I say, I’ll meet everyone here next year, for a new edition of GeoGravel Tuscany which will certainly be even more beautiful”.