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Bike tour among millenary olive trees, farms, rupestrian churches and underground oil mills

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clock4 to 5 hours

Overview

    The tour, departing from Via Porto, in the historic center of Monopoli, is a journey through time among fortified farmhouses, ancient hypogeum oil mills, frescoed rock churches and ancient olive trees. An emotional journey that will make you discover authentic places of this foreshortening in Puglia, along country roads and ancient sheep tracks. The bike tour includes several stages, including a cave church with frescoes from the Middle Ages, a 13th century underground oil mill and a farm surrounded by over two thousand millennial olive trees. A relaxing cycle ride through nature, in the shade of centuries-old olive and carob trees, almond trees, figs and prickly pears, along secondary roads and old beaten earth paths lined with dry stone walls.
    These are authentic places, private properties where it would not be possible to enter independently, but which it is possible to discover and admire in the company of our expert tourist guides.
    Difficulty: low
    Distance: about 20 km
    Minimum age: 12 years

What's Included

  • Use of bicycle
  • Each participant will have bottles of water
  • During the tour we offer typical Apulian snacks
  • The tour ends with a tasting of typical Apulian products: sensorial analysis of different extra virgin olive oils, pates, pickles, jams, excellent wine and more

What to Expect

    The tour starts from the heart of the historic center of Monopoli, riding a mountain bike, up to the plain of centuries-old olive trees, where it will be possible to admire wonderful olive trees and discover the secrets of the production of extra virgin olive oil. It will be a journey through time, crossing fortified farms, an ancient underground oil mill with a real oil museum, as well as rock churches with medieval frescoes. An emotional journey that will allow you to discover authentic places in this corner of Puglia, along country roads and ancient sheep tracks. A relaxing ride in nature, in the shade of centuries-old olive trees, carob trees, almond trees, figs and prickly pears, along secondary roads and old dirt paths lined with dry stone walls. The tour ends with the tasting of typical Apulian products and analysis sensory experience of different types of Apulian extra virgin olive oil.

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