Parco del Lago Trasimeno

• Trail Conditions: On foot, By bike, On horseback
• Interest: Flora, Panorama

• Departure: Sanguineto
• Duration: 4 hour/s
• Difficulty Level: E - Hiking (level)
• Length: 11.26 km

Start from Sanguineto, a little agglomerate of houses located on the first relief towards the hills of the valley between Tuoro and Mount Gualandro. Walk along the avenue of cypresses in the direction of the Trasimeno lake. In locality Cà di Giano, take the road climbing towards Mount Gualandro (441m), which in some points is only a trace of a path among the olives, paying attention to some forks which you reach. In the last stretch you skirt alongside a terraced olive orchard and a mixed woods on the left. Upon reaching the castle, we suggest a deviation to observe the structure of the fortification, the landscape on the Trasimeno lake and its islands and on the agricultural plain between Terontola and Castiglione del Lago. Continue the walk venturing into the woods on a path which, at the boundary between Tuscany and Umbria, will bring you North towards the Colle dei Termini; the view along the path, varying between 400 and 500 meters of altitude, little by little opens on Tuscany and the hamlets of Chianciano and Montepulciano. You walk among pines, holm oaks, isolated oaks, junipers, heathers and strawberry trees until an intersection of several paths, where you take the one which rises on the left. We reach the highest part of the trail and take a very panoramic crest path, proceeding through wooded areas of Mediterranean vegetation. Once you reach an intersection characterised by an island of cypresses and firs, take the rocky and, in places, steep path on the right that descends towards Sanguineto, through the low vegetation mostly made up of cistus, broom, juniper, holm oaks and small oaks.

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