The Montetiffi Tray Trail is quite challenging, there are some short sections where it is necessary to have a stable and safe pace, with its 9.4 km in length and 513 meters in altitude; The estimated walking time is about 3h 30m.
The route is enriched by educational panels illustrating the “Teglia di Montetiffi”, the traditional cooking of piadina and the natural beauty of the SCI of Montetiffi, in the Upper Valle dell’Uso.

The territory offers pleasant views and great biodiversity: the eastern part of the route is in fact included within the SCI (Site of Community Interest) Montetiffi Alto Uso. The fauna and plant equipment is remarkable. The most common mammals are roe deer, wild boar, foxes, wolves, hares, badgers and porcupines. Among the tree species we point out downy oak, manna ash, juniper, holm oak, field elm up to small wild orchids and the rare Aristolochia rotunda, the nurse plant of the butterfly Zerynthia Cassandra.

We start from the parking lot at the entrance to the village of Montetiffi by taking path 015a in the direction of “L’archetta,” a limestone cliff with a peculiar conformation. Then continue along path 111a towards the village of Ville Montetiffi, a small and cozy hamlet in which there is the birthplace of Father Venanzio Reali. A few hundred meters from the path we recommend visiting “Le Teglie di Montetiffi,” the last existing company that produces the pans for cooking piadina using only the ancient artisanal methods.
We continue on path 111a and 111 heading to Vernano locality where there is the ancient Church of San Benedetto, a religious monument dating back to the 12th century. The church is guarded by two giant centuries-old oaks (Quercus pubescens or oak), monumental works of nature. The taller one measures 17 meters with a circumference at the trunk of 3.9 meters.
Continuing on Trail 111, across the paved road, we arrive at Ponte Rosso, where we ascend the Uso stream to the area of the Romanesque Bridge and Cauldrons of the Giants, an ideal place for a rest, it represents one of the most fascinating points of the trail. Built with a round arch around the year 1000 AD, in the past it was an important link between Romagna and Montefeltro, also used for smuggling gunpowder, tobacco, cognac and mistrà. Next to the bridge are the remains of the ancient Molino Tornani. Here the river preserves corners of rare beauty, characterized by the presence of jumps and waterfalls of the so-called “Marmitte dei Giganti”, suggestive gorges formed over the centuries by the abrasive action of pebbles and which give the landscape a “lunar” character. The ascent to Montetiffi is done through the “Via della rupe”, (path 015a) an ancient path carved into the rock, steep and difficult, once used by the women of the village for the supply of water and to go to wash clothes at the stream.
On the top of the cliff of Montetiffi stands the thousand-year-old Abbey of San Leonardo, built by the Montetiffese in the eleventh century and donated to the Benedictine monks. It is one of the most important Romanesque monuments in Emilia-Romagna; inside there are frescoes of the fourteenth century, a baptismal font of the seventeenth century and epigraphs of the fourteenth century. A short distance away is the “Agostino Venanzio Reali Museum – Art and Poetry”, which collects the works of the singular artist “of the Faith”: biblical scholar, painter, poet and sculptor.