Wine Bike Tour 4 - Art

The fourth bike tour covers both the Rhaetian and Orobic side of the Valtellina and allows you to admire the city and its surroundings from two different perspectives.
Designed for history and art lovers, the itinerary winds its way through scenic roads among vineyards full of sites of cultural interest, all to be discovered.

First we meet Castello Masegra, the only military structure of Sondrio of medieval origin to have remained intact to the present day which, since 2019, hosts the CAST - the Castle of mountain stories, a 'narrative museum' that has inaugurated a new chapter for the historic site of Valtellina.

Along the scenic route through the vineyards it is possible to visit Castello de Piro al Grumello, a rare example of a twin castle built between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century in a strategic position on the sunny side.

Continuing, in the locality of Montagna in Valtellina we find a church complex made up of religious buildings from different periods: the 15th-century Church of San Giorgio, with frescoes from the 15th-16th centuries; the oratory of the Madonna del Carmine (15th century), with a cycle of Renaissance frescoes by Sigismondo de Magistris (1515) and the church of the Beata Vergine Addolorata with 18th century paintings inside.

In the locality of Poggiridenti it is possible to visit the Church of San Fedele which preserves precious eighteenth-century artifacts and a sixteenth-century chapel preserving a large fresco by Fermo Stella (1528).

Upon returning, a stop at the Bordighi forest is a must, a natural reserve rich in fauna and tree diversity that extends over 47 hectares.