This walk starts off from the church in San Giovanni del Pantano. After about 250 mts turn right in the direction of Umbertide (sent.418).
After about 100 mts turn left towards the cemetery (on the “strada dei Calderoni”).
The road is initially steep and after a while it becomes a gravel road for about 2 kms. The views of Monte Tezio to the left and Monte Acuto a bit later to the right are breathtaking. You will reach a fork in the road, take it to the right and following this level road for a few hundred meters on your right you will find a downhill path which will, in a short time, take you to the Torre Gualterotta, 400 mts away.
A visit to this ruin is a must, but do be very careful as it is unsafe, and the threat of collapse is very real. After the visit, go back up to the main road and, turning right, you will get to that which remains of the Villa del Faggeto (the beech tree grove villa) with its totally abandoned garden and two palms which seem completely out of place in this area. Continue your ascent, going upwards at the next fork, and you will reach, after 15 or so minutes, an open pasture. Continue the climb upwards to your left carefully following the path up to a crest where you continue to your left, then downwards for a few meters to your right to the border of a field and once again upwards to the left until you reach a relatively clear trail.
Continue to the right into a thicket along a more or less level path until, in a curve, you reach the meeting point with the road that goes from Brogo Giglione to the Nese plain.
A few meters down is a group of buildings called “Bisciaiuolo”, whilst going up you will soon reach the “Bisciaro” castle ( a biscia is a grass snake), whose name reminds the locals of several bizarre legends. The walk continues on the gravel road surrounded by woods and Mediterranean shrub until you reach a widening of the road which you take slightly upwards to the left to then, after a few meters downwards to the right, onto a deviation to the a house called “Marano”.
When you reach an old barrier take a sharp left, initially downwards, on an uneven road which goes up and down among grey gorges and leads to a gravel road coming from “Santa Lucia” which goes to a house called “Maranaccio”. Pass this house, continue onwards and soon you will reach a fork, which you take to your left, that goes steeply upwards to the Etruscan tomb in the beech grove about 500 meters on, marked by a sign indicating its location. A visit to this tiny but fascinating tomb is a must. When done, go back down this last 500 mt path to the main gravel road. Turn left onto it until you reach the road that comes from Pantano. You will pass a lovely restructured house called Col Giorgio and then return to the fork you left earlier. Take the gravel road to the cemetery and the San Giovanni del Pantano church, where you left the car