Starting from Piazza del Colle and walking among olive groves, woods, small streams, rivers and crossing beautiful medieval villages.

Trail n. 1 is assigned the green color. The path is ring and is marked with directional arrows of green and light blue. The path starts from the main car park of Colle di Buggiano, where you can park for free.

From the car park go up the ancient paved road at the entrance to the medieval village and in a few minutes you reach the main square outside the walls, where you can admire the Romanesque Pieve di S.Lorenzo. From the square, passing the door, cross the pretty village, letting yourself be inspired by the small streets that will lead you to the Porta di Sopra or Porta a Massa.

Leaving the village behind and along the asphalt road you can get on the Provincial Colligiana. Turn left and you will reach the Margine dei Ferri.

On the left of the Margin you can take the road of Castelvecchio, descends abruptly in the first section. Continue until you find a dirt road on the right that leads you to Le Poiane. Walk along the river Cessana between oaks and chestnut trees until you reach the ruins of an ancient nineteenth-century powder keg “La polveriera”.

The country’s elders say that during World War II all gunpowder was hidden under this bridge.

Continuing on path no. 1 cross the bridge over the Cessana and proceed along a short climb that leads you to a junction near a house. At this point continue left until you reach the asphalt road again. Make your left for Castelvecchio, an ancient village razed to the ground by the altopascesi in 1300, after crossing the torrent Cessana take the road on the right and go down the pavement that runs along the Mill of Maciste and from here at the intersection you have to turn right and follow the path of pebbles back to the village of Colle di Buggiano; passing by Via del Fosso, arrive at the starting point.