Dozza's Painted Walls – Sforza Fortress of Dozza loop from Borgo Tossignano

Dozza's Painted Walls – Sforza Fortress of Dozza loop from Borgo Tossignano

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Dozza's Painted Walls – Sforza Fortress of Dozza loop from Borgo Tossignano

02:59

49.2km

700m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 20, 2026

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The surface along some of this route may not be suitable

Some segments of your route comprise a surface that may not be suitable for your chosen sport.

After 344 m for 691 m

After 31.7 km for 3.36 km

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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20.1 km

Dozza's Painted Walls

Highlight • Monument

The Medieval Village of Dozza, one of the "Most Beautiful Villages in Italy", is located south of Bologna, 6 km from Imola and is located on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of the Sellustra river and gently descending towards the road Emilia.
It is famous for being the city of the "painted wall" because of the numerous open-air paintings where you can admire over a hundred works by prestigious names in contemporary art.
For more information: emiliaromagnaturismo.it/it/localita/dozza

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20.1 km

Sforza Fortress of Dozza

Highlight • Castle

Dozza is one of the most beautiful villages in the area: with a visitable castle and its wine shop, the narrow roads and the paintings on the facades of the houses.

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20.2 km

Mural dedicated to Luciano Pezzi and Fausto Coppi (Dozza)

Highlight • Monument

In a municipality full of splendid painted walls, a tribute to the favorite sport in these parts could not be missing: cycling. On the wall of a house, Fausto Coppi, the Campionissimo, and Luciano Pezzi, ex partisan, road cyclist and Italian sports manager are depicted. Known for being Marco Pantani's mentor and friend, Pezzi was a good professional in the 1950s. In his last years, Pezzi lived in Dozza, where a youth race is still held in his memory.

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20.5 km

Dozza Painted Walls (Muro Dipinto)

Highlight • Monument

In Dozza, art becomes the urban landscape and furnishes the walls of the houses, the streets and the squares, flooding every corner with light and different styles and opening up to bursts of sudden colours.
It is a real open-air museum, where you can admire over a hundred works created by prestigious names in contemporary art.
Inside the fortress are preserved the frescoes and sketches of the works on the wall exhibited in the Study and Documentation Center of the Painted Wall.
Source: emiliaromagnaturismo.it/it/localita/dozza

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23.0 km

Croara Vineyards and Cypress Road

Highlight • Natural

good evening everyone, a nice ride, shame about the Sellustra, it's a nice road to do by bike but it's becoming impracticable .. a real shame

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26.2 km

Chiesetta di Valsellustra

Highlight • Religious Site

Ancient church located in the homonymous hamlet where there is also a fountain to fill the bottle ...

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35.5 km

View of Montecalderaro

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49.2 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

29.9 km

6.72 km

6.07 km

3.65 km

2.92 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

44.7 km

4.07 km

486 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (450 m)

Lowest point (50 m)

Weather

Friday 23 October

17°C

8°C

20 %

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Expect light wind and shifting conditions.

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Comments

November 20, 2021,November days... ⚪

Today there was a frightening fog up in Gesso, in some point you could hardly see 10m away, then obviously very high humidity and quite low temperature ...
(I suggest you go to my insta page that I have put in the stories some hyperlapse of the climb with the fog that are really suggestive)

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February 26, 2022,icy Gesso 🧊

I am still stunned by the wind, I did an atomic sprint in Valsellustra going at 30km / h, I reach the top of Gesso the average drops (obviously) at 27 km / m, to drop against the wind: front, side and even eddies ... .
You couldn't stand up, it was harder to do: borgo-imola than the whole climb …

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