If you are looking for a nice walking tour very close to Vinci hiking guided tour, here we propose an easy trail, a circular walk very close to Vinci to find out the countryside where Leonardo da Vinci used to spend his youth time, here is what you need.

Starting point from the Leonardo’s Birth House near Vinci.

This Vinci hiking guided tour strarts from here, where is also a large car parking where to leave the cars or the bus, we begin our hiking. We will start climbing the hill and in few minutes we will be in a fresh woodland where we can admire water sources, small bridges and a wonderful nature.

When we will be on the top of this Vinci hiking guided tour we will visit two of the most impressive vineyard of the world. They are impressive not for the dimension (they are quite small) but for the architecture of the terraces on which they stay. They are defined “monumental vineyard” because every terraces was build by hands with local stones.

We can climb the stairs and see how people used to manage a vineyard when all the works were made by hands and absolutely without tractors or machines.

Then we will start to go down the hill entering in a woody valley where we will visit some ancient mills where surely Leonardo da Vinci used to spend some time when he was a child. He used to observe the nature and the animals and one of the most interesting draw of Leonardo in the representation of a freshwater crab.

Today it’s a quite rare animal that lives in the water of the unpolluted stream of the southern Europe, but when Leonardo was young it was quite common.

We will go ahead along the valley meeting four different abandoned mills where we can recognise the original structure and we will understand how the worked.

Finally this Vinci hiking guided tour arrive in the starting point at the Leonardo’s Birth House. This is a nice place where you can eat your packet lunch or have a rest among the olive groves. Anyway your can also continue walking to Vinci (only few minutes) or get you car or bus and go away, as you prefer.

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