Getting an urge for pasta and nice roads: Futa Pass, Italy

[gremlin]

Bologna is nice. Decent food, lots of culture and even a museum dedicated to some minor motorcycle manufacturer. There's also a cheeky little road called the Futa Pass:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Futa+ ... FQAw%3D%3D

Hmmmm...

Hire bike in Bologna. Do the pass, could spend a night in Florence, or hang a left into the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna. There'll be mountain roads a-plenty me thinks. Up to Ravenna and back to Bologna to drop the bike back. Could be a nice weekend.

[crust]

When you get to Borgo San Lorenzo, keep going a bit, then take the 'Passo del Muraglione' towards Forli.

Superb, twisty road with an excellent cafe - cake and gelato shop at the top. The run into Forli is faster sweepers, personally I'd have my gelato, cake etc and turn back down the sweepy bit to Borgo.

[Dodgy69]

Lots of lovely roads including this beauty. SS1 east of Genoa


https://maps.app.goo.gl/oeKyzcGemJbvcBtd9?g_st=ac

[crust]

Lots of lovely roads including this beauty. SS1 east of Genoa
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oeKyzcGemJbvcBtd9?g_st=ac

It is indeed a lovely stretch of road. There's a very nice hotel in the square in Lavagna.

[gremlin]

Lots of lovely roads including this beauty. SS1 east of Genoa
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oeKyzcGemJbvcBtd9?g_st=ac

It is indeed a lovely stretch of road. There's a very nice hotel in the square in Lavagna.

Sestri Levante, on the coast there, is a nice spot to spend a couple of days too. Hotel Viz a Viz has a tunnel dig into the rock from street level up to clifftop level. Me and Gremlinette used to run through it whooping as it really echoed. Very childish.