A trekking itinerary that winds through forests along ancient roads. You start from the houses at San Salvatore and go along the county road SP106, called Baucca in the direction of Città di Castello. Then, after 800 metres, you turn right and, after about one kilometre, you reach the departure point, the farmhouse “La Cerqua” (645 m). After parking the car, take the road that climbs, leaving the Farmhouse to the right.
After passing the first house you move on a ridge: on the horizon you can see Monte Nerone, recognizable by antennas on top of it and on the other side the Carpina Valley. You will walk past the ruins of an old house, near a water supply tank; here the road descends slightly and then immediately goes up. On the right you can see a fenced plantation of truffle-generation plants at Caiburroni.
After passing it and meeting a fork, take the path climbing on the left: soon on the right you will see San Felice, an unsafe small country church.
From the fork the itinerary continues along the path that opens to the left among downy oaks and junipers. As you ascend, the road stones underfoot become more regular until they form a beautiful paved road from the Roman period; once it connected the site of Forum Iulii Concupiense, in the Carpina Valley, to the consular Flaminia road. When the road surface becomes unpaved again you reach a crossroads, on the left just a little bit further up, you can see the tip of Mount Macinare, site of a pre-Roman fortified settlement.After passing a shrine, the road climbs in the shade of a thick pine forest. You are advised not to leave the main road, along which you climb up on the left to reach the very panoramic top of Monte Castellaccio (839 m), a name that indicates the location of the Castle once ruined and then disappeared from Castelfranco.
After retracing the main path, in a few steps you reach the main road for Apecchio with limited traffic. Keeping left, you gaze upon the newly born Carpina Valley. A few hundred metres further on there is the isolated hamlet of Castelfranco and nearby the 16th century Church dedicated to our Lady of Grace.
The route continues along a dirt road that leaves the Church on the right; the slope of Monte Castellaccio, so far hidden to your eyes, is now in full view revealing a thick beech forest; at the fork keep left along the headwaters of the Carpina river. The road verges on the Farm Pian del Pozzo and, further on, it joins another road coming from above; proceeding to the left, you cross the stream over a bridge. At this point you go past Cailuca and you turn left just before House Maccheroni, site of an old mill. Then you cross the stream again over a bridge and, once you reach the valley floor, you climb up on the other side.
At the next fork in the road, in the Colprejano place (609m), you turn right. Here there are remains of a Roman country villa with spas embedded in the ground: traces of mosaic floor and a travertine column trunk are still there.
Further on you reach the place where you left the car.

The trail is suitable for everyone and especially for families with children for the places visited, the shade of extensive pinewoods and the presence of the interesting Ornithological Museum. The trail is marked by blue-white signs. The departure point (602m) is outside the seat of the State Forestry Corps in Candeleto (C.F.S) that you reach by taking the county road SP201 along the river Carpinella in the direction of Pietralunga, turning left just before reaching the village. Then you follow the signs indicating the Ornithological Museum and C.F.S. Station, where it is possible to park.
You leave the museum on your right and take the gravel path, between conifer woods, running alongside the Candeleto campsite until you reach an intersection with a paved road, here you take the dirt path on your left inside the wood. Follow the red and white signs indicating the direction to Bocca Serriola.
The undergrowth is mostly covered with ferns. Once you reach a fork in the path, following the white-blue sign, keep left and you arrive at Monte Croce, between the pine forest and a colony of Oaks.
The top of Monte Croce (711 m), although occupied by a TV relay station, offers a panoramic view on the Carpina Valley. The nature trail continues parallel to gravel road, showing again the signpost for Bocca Serriola, until it changes direction when it begins to descend. After reaching a well signposted intersection in the trail, you turn left and enter a more mature forest until you reach the lowest point where you cross a ditch. Then the trail slightly takes you up again and in a few minutes it leads to the gravel road of Caipizzichelli that you take on the left.
At the height of a small fountain an educational trail begins. It is signposted with white an green signs , there small boards give the name of its trees.
After completing the Percorso Flora ( Flora Trail) you go back to a three road intersection from where you continue on the right walking past the former sawmill of the Mountain Community and past a stone building, until you are back at the departure point.

The excursion starts from Pieve de’ Saddi; place of the cult of St. Crescenziano, first evangelizer in the Upper Tiber Valley and through the beautiful Carpina Valley. The Church was erected where San Crescenziano’s legendary martyrdom took place, it was documented in the 11th century. The Church, that preserves the saint’s relics, is located at about 10 km from Pietralunga, it can be reached from the main road 201, near the stadium, where you take the county road SP 106 to Città di Castello, at the crossroads turn left and then take the small road on the right following the signs for Pieve de’ Saddi. After about 4 Km you cross a bridge over the river Carpina and turn right. You continue straight on for about 6 km heading for the imposing solitary Pieve de’ Saddi on your right. After leaving the Church behind you, you cross the main road and take the route 111, you continue for 600 metres until you reach a fork; here turn right, until reaching a second fork where you continue to keep right. A Turkey oak appears before an uncultivated field, lower down you will notice the glittering dome of the Observatory of Coloti. The path continues along another field with a big oak tree in the centre, that you will pass while keeping the right side at the edge of the forest, which you will cross at the point marked with the white-red sign. You then go down a ravine to the ditch of Casaprete placed underneath. You keep walking alongside the stream, wade through it and continue along a small rocky gorge. You l then climb up through a mixed wood with hornbeams and manna-ashes and go on trekking along a section of trail where the marlstones emerges. Once out of the wood you see a sequence of small mountains crossed by many streams at their foot. Then you run along the right side of the next field until you reach a track rising straight up. You then come to the long ruin of Caimoroni (599m), from where in the background it is possible to see the outline of Rocca d’Aries, framed by mountains, among which Monte Acuto stands out. On a nearby hillock the imposing ruins of Casa Savignano can be seen.
The trail passes near the great run down almond tree at the edge of the Caimoroni building and continues along a farm road. Once at the fork ignore the way uphill and continue on the left; along the way you meet a fountain, go past it and follow the straight path that avoids the house and leads to a large crossroads. Here you leave the trail 111 that continues to Montone, you can in the background, and you take the 14 to the left, in the direction of Coloti. Behind high conifers Pieve de’ Saddi can be seen again. At the next fork follow the road uphill as indicated by the signs, and then get close to the fence preceding the ruins of the Casa Spirineo.
Only a bit lower down there is the Borgo di Coloti (Coloti hamlet) that can be visited with a deviation of 250 m. With the hamlet at your back, take the path, lined by pine trees, that opens in front of you.
After about 200m you turn right, the way back is on the left. The marlstone path runs in the shade of a mixed forest; it follows a trickle for a few metres and then you cross it; the trail continues less marked, you ignore a road that rises to the left and continue straight on and come to a fork: here you take the road uphill signposted as trail 111C. You cross another small ditch, a bit lower down all ditches converge on the roaring Rio Sansa, a tributary of the river Carpina. At the next fork , take the road to the right that descends slightly, in the short stretches where the ancient road is no longer readable, continue alongside the forest until you reach and cross the main stream. At this point you leave a chopped marlstone hillock on the right, it is advisable to keep left at the edge of a ravine where you can discover a simple artifact containing San Crescenziano spring water emerging from underground, with a peculiar sulphurous smell, in the centre of the confluence of three streams. According to the legend, the cave of the dragon killed by the Saint was located here. You leave the source on the left and going up along the trail you enter a forest of oaks and reach a clearing: the country road is now easier to go and you continue on it until you arrive at the back of the cottage that is located right in front of the Church.

The proposed itinerary takes place in the woods of Pietralunga and consists of the paths 120 and 120A. From the main square of Pietralunga you drive along via Roma as far as the fork for Salceto Lame, here you turn left and driving along the Salceto Lame municipal road until the Km 0.5. You can park your car in a clearing on the right close to the fork for Molino Chicchioni (along the same road you can reach Collelungo by car, where the intersection point of the two rings is).
You start trekking along the gavel road leading to what was once a mill. There you take a path, on the left of the mill, that runs through the riparian forest bordering the waters of Fosso Chicchioni. Along the way you come to the first of many moveable gates. You continue slightly uphill in the shade of an oak grove, while proceeding, the oaks give way to black pine reforestations. At the end of the pine forest in a panoramic position (720 m) you can see the what remains of the House Collelungo, now used as a shelter for cattle.
After three hundred meters you reach the intersection with the other ring, named “ Monti del Vento”; here the trail descends slightly through woods in terraces, supported by dry stonewalls. Along the path that descends there are ditches, that create a vegetation characterized by humid brackens. In the lowest points at the intersection with small brooks, there are drinking troughs. While climbing up you meet the ruins of House Renzini, then after continuing uphill you meet a small gate, passing which, you come out of the state-owned pastureland. Then a wider paved road opens on the municipal border between Pietralunga and Gubbio and reaches the highest point of the Rings of the Wolf (832 m altitude), locally called Passo del Cardinale.
The way run is left to take a path turning on the left at the edge of the pine forest. Pay attention to the road signs. After ups and downs along a sandstone path you will enjoy another panoramic view:: Monte Nerone and Monte Catria on the left close a sequence of smaller mountains.
You continue downhill between rolling stones, and you go up again along a path bounded by State-owned milestones. After crossing the barrier to protect the grazing animals, in a short time the road takes you back towards the fork for Collelungo, keeping left you reach the known intersection which closes one of the rings. Here, following the precise road signs, you go towards San Pietro by taking a path that runs almost parallel but lower down to the previous one. You continue on the first ring, you had left only for a short time. You then see again the sequence of wood varieties noted previously. The trail intersects with a paved road, the opposite entrance is at 50 metres lower down; the path through the woods ends up with a dirt road that you take on the left downhill. At the next crossroads you keep right to avoid the paved road, soon after you turn right again. The deviation suggested enters a small grove and comes out at the height of the House la Tagliata, that offers a view on the beech woods of Mount Macinare and on the tip of Castellaccio (see Castelfranco itinerary). You arrive behind the isolated Church of San Pietro which opens on the hills with abundant cultivations. In the distance and in the haze you can see the row of mountains.
You continue between the Church and the only house existing there, to take the trail heading to the main road and verging the Cai Petrignani ruins on the right. After 500 metres of paved road to the left you are back to the car.

The starting point is the small Church of San Donnino which can be reached from Pietralunga by taking the Baucca county road S.P. 106 as far as Cainardi (2 km) and then turning right towards Montemaggiore; the small church is located after approximately 5 km of winding road, at the fork to Caidominici ; here you park your car.
Opposite the Church you start walking along the footpath 112. In this section road signs need to be followed with special attention. You come across a gravel road that crosses the paved road; shortly downstream from here you take a path between two oak trees that invite you to go up. Once you complete the climb among gullies, you are back to the paved road that you run as far as the “ Madonna dei Cinque Faggi” (Our Lady of the five beech trees). Just before the small church, you are connected to a section of the “Sentiero Italia (SI)”, that you take to the left slightly downhill.
At a crossroads you find the unsafe building “Osteria delle Rote”. After the Osteria the “ Sentiero Italia” , that is well signposted, continues to climb to the top of Monte di Gragnano (770 metres).
The road continues among rocks carved by wind and water. In view of the farmhouse Prati, at the height of a hunting lodge, you leave the “ Sentiero Italia” to take the 108 trail again, that is on your left.
The route continues alongside a fence, on the right you see the “ Casella del Vescovo”, seat of a hunting company. At the fork you meet keep left, then you come close to another abandoned building (Casa Fontanelle).
You continue along a road among farm fields in the shade of downy oak trees.
After passing a bump you reach a wooded area and turn left leaving the main road, check the signs carefully. This new path, slightly hinted, winds through a grove of oak trees and invites you to walk until you come to a wide forest road leading down among evergreen conifers.
You reach the asphalted road that you run for a short distance, then you leave it to take a path that goes down to the left, highlighted by some wells on the side of the street; from here you cross a concrete platform over the stream Soara. You continue walking between the small river and the fence protecting a cultivation of truffle-growing trees. Then you see the sign of the path108 again close to an ancient ford, the path rises surrounded by an oak forest. You continue along the wood and at a fork take the right until you reach a large grassland. At a corner there are the ruins of the farmhouse Matrella.In this field keep left until you see the opposite path outlet. At the fork take the lower path, better marked by footsteps, then walk past the fences. You enter again an unpaved road that takes you close to Rapastello.
Past the farm, continuing on the paved road, in a short time you arrive at San Donnino and at the cars.
If you still have time and energy at the height of a pond you leave the main road and take a dirt track that descends among wide grasslands, extremely beautiful in spring. When you arrive at a fork, you keep the left and enter a grove until you reach a gravel road: here you leave the trail 108 and continue along the trail 112. From here you can enjoy beautiful view on the peaks of the Apennines.
Go along the gravel path to the right and in a few minutes, after a bump, you discover the ruins of the Church of S. Angelo di Fonteroccoli, today only ruined walls adorned with two mono-hole windows.
Retrace your steps and follow the path 112 in the other direction. You get to the paved road Cainardi-Rapastello, after a short walk to the right you are back to San Donnino.

It starts from the hamlet of Carpini, on the main road between Umbertide and Pietralunga.
You walk on the road that runs from the church to the cemetery. The road becomes gravelled, then you turn left at a bend, in proximity of the crossroads with a farmhouse.
A bit further up, you see the farmhouse part of the vast number of possessions of the Conte (Earl) Della Porta that stretched far beyond Rocca d’ Aries. Going up you enjoy a view over the Carpina Valley and over the opposite mountains that you partly go through. Along the stony path, there are two bars easily bypassable. Going uphill you cross the path 115 that you follow towards Montone, then you descend to the left at the crossroads. Further up on the right there is the rural church of the Madonna del Nespolo.  The trail, along the same route of the “ Ippovia Umbra” (Umbria Horse Trail), meets a wider road which continues straight along the ridge.  You ignore the path that descends to the left, and continue to the right around the knoll of Civitella and at the intersection you always continue along the trail 115. The descent is first accompanied by a forest of oaks and maples and then by a pine forest.  Going past a house, you come to a place called “Tre Ponti” at the confluence of the Carpina and Carpinella rivers. You use one of the bridges to cross the main road and continue along the road 116: a gravel track that climbs for 430 m up to the house “Campo della Fiora”. You continue along the fence and soon after, at a crossroads, you’d better keep left along a shaded path. After another intersection you continue to climb on the right and when you are about to go around the knoll you see the village of Montone. Then you meet a gravel road, keeping left in a few minutes you will reach the “ Madonna dei Confini”.
The trail stretches along a ridge between two valleys: the Carpinella, surrounded by Monte Gengarella, marked by the ruins of Castriciano and the Valley of the Rio San Faustino barred by the slopes of the mountain and by the Rancino; over the horizon you can see the ever-present Monte Nerone .
You go straight to a crossroads consisting of roads, small streets and paths; you run through what was once the farmyard of the Moravola family, then you arrive at a farm that you pass by carrying on along the edge of the wood to the right, always following the trail 116.
After passing a stream, you start climbing; when you reach a meadow, behind a nut tree you climb a steep slope with lots of openable gates that lead to the ruins of Casa Bazzucaglia (610 m). The path opens to a wider gravel road that you take on the left to reach the monastery of San Faustino in a short time.
After passing the Abbey you turn immediately left, thus entering into a vast pastureland. Here pay attention to the sign n.116 by walking along the fence that runs high; after an awkward passage through the fence netting, you walk along another field as far as a retractable gate from where you take a path descending to the left.
You pass a ditch and go up to a crossroads where you take a gravel path on the left, then you immediately turn right before arriving at the house Valbona.
Now the easy road stretches towards the valley verging on the “ Diavolaccio”, name given by peasants to the Cavagnetti locality.
Once in the valley, you cross a bridge, then at the fork to Monte Valentino, keeping left, you come to the main road. After four hundred metres on the left and you find your car.