View, print and download the race cycle route 'Gino Bartali Resistance Route' from Dromos (199 km).

Dec 30, 2024 · A pleasant bike ride. The route begins by taking the "Gino Bartali" cycle path up to the crossing of the Bisenzio river on the Baley bridge, and taking the "Fausto Coppi" cycle path up to Gamberame, and then going back because the path was interrupted by the landslide a …

Gino Bartali was an Italian cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1938 and 1948. During World War II, he used his cycling career as a cover to aid in the rescue of Jews. Risking his life if caught, Bartali cycled far distances to deliver false identity cards and secret documents.

Discover the best road cycling routes to Museo del Ciclismo Gino Bartali, located in Bagno A Ripoli, Florence. Plan your own road cycling route and start your next adventure.

Feb 20, 2022 · Discover the best cycling routes to Pista ciclabile Gino Bartali lungo il fiume Bisenzio, a Highlight located in Prato, Tuscany. Plan a cycling route on the map and start your next adventure.

Jan 21, 2008 · Gino Bartali is probably best known for his epic rivalry with Fausto Coppi, another great Italian cyclist. (Picture below left, Coppi nearest camera.) Bartali from Florence in the Tuscany region, was a devout Catholic and deeply religious; this earned him the nickname of “Gino the Pious.”

He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937, and the Tour de France in 1938. After the war, he added one more victory in each event: the Giro d'Italia in 1946 and the Tour de France in 1948.

Dec 23, 2016 · One of the more impressive pages of cycle racing history was written by Gino Bartali at the 1948 Tour de France. Ten years after winning the race at the age of 24, he returned to France and took the overall victory in what most of the sport’s historians consider to be a surprising a manner.

Apr 23, 2019 · Thanks to his “riding a bicycle”, Gino Bartali was declared in 2013 “Righteous among the Nations” and he was awarded the honour that Israel gives to non-Jews who have saved even just one Jew during the Second World War.

The “Gino Bartali” Cycling Museum is located in Florence in via Chiantigiana, near Ponte a Ema, in the rooms next to the “L’Unione” recreational club, and was opened in April 2006. The museum is dedicated to cycling lovers and to the fans of Gino Bartali, born right here in 1914.