View from Cima Monte Pelato – Laghetto Le Serre loop from Rosignano
View from Cima Monte Pelato – Laghetto Le Serre loop from Rosignano
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View from Cima Monte Pelato – Laghetto Le Serre loop from Rosignano
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24.6km
530m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 19, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 346 m for 90 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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747 m
Rosignano Solvay (Province of Livorno, Tuscany)
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The turning point came at the beginning of the 1900s: in less than a hundred years it has gone from a few tens of people to more than 16,000 inhabitants. This rapid development is almost entirely attributable to the construction of the factory by the Belgian Solvay Company which in 1914 installed the first plants for the production of soda. The choice by the Belgian company to build an industrial plant in this uninhabited plain stemmed from the specific characteristics of this area: the flat terrain, the proximity of limestone quarries and the River Fine as a water resource, the availability of the railway, the axis of the Via Aurelia and the Via Emilia, the presence of the sea.
After the creation of the factory came the construction of the "Solvay Village": the houses, a series of services of various kinds, from the shops to the cinema-theater, the recreational club, the schools, the hospital, the sports field, according to a precise and modern urban plan: the straight avenues are intersected perpendicularly by the streets shaded by pine trees; the buildings, of varying size depending on the function, but also on the social role of the inhabitants of the time, are all in the same style, using exposed gray bricks.
Rosignano Solvay and the Solvay Village owe their name to the Belgian engineer Ernest Solvay who had founded this industrial plant.
At R. Solvay, however, things are not all pink and white: the pollutants discharged into the sea from the factory have damaged the environment and consequently the health of the local population.
Today the economy of the village is not based only on the factory but also on tourism, thanks to the wide beaches and the recent tourist port "Cala de 'Medici" with its 650 berths.
Tip by
10.4 km
View from Cima Monte Pelato
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16.3 km
View of the Livorno Coast from Poggio Pelato
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Tip by
17.4 km
Laghetto Le Serre
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24.6 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
12.9 km
5.80 km
2.86 km
1.47 km
1.33 km
Surfaces
14.8 km
6.16 km
2.56 km
652 m
101 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (350 m)
Lowest point (10 m)
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