TRACKS: CIRCUITO DELLE TRE PROVINCE (EMILIA/TOSCANA)

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CIRCUITO DELLE TRE PROVINCE (EMILIA/TOSCANA)

Description Street circuit used from 1929 to 1931. It was divided into three different provinces (Bologna, Pistoia, Modena), and this is the reason of its name.
Map is drawn using an original road map dated 1927 and profile is taken from a guide dated 1929.

On these roads in 1987 Lima-Abetone hillclimb was organized. It should have been raced on August 30^th on a 12 km track, but few days before the race Prefetto of Pistoia (local autorithy about public safety) didn’t allow the race because of safety of spectators.

Location Bagni della Porretta
BO - Bologna - Emilia Romagna

Location On Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, mountains that divide Emilia and Toscana. Bologna is about 100 km - 62 mi North-East from Bagni di Porretta (today Porretta Terme), Florence about 80 km - 50 mi South-East.

Latitude - Longitude + 44°09'29"     + 10°58'31"
44.158056     10.975278

UTM Coordinates X = 657946.108  -  Y = 4891325.076  -  Zone 32T

Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Portale Cartografico Nazionale - Visual Pagine Gialle

Altitude AMSL 1388 m - 4554 ft

Inauguration 1929

Closing 1931

Designer

Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Italian Atlante delle Strade d’Italia, Automobil Club di Milano, Terza Edizione Published by: Automobil Club di Milano - Published in: Milano, Italia - year: 1930
(2) Italian Guida delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione - Italia Centrale Published by: Touring Club Italiano - Published in: Italia - year: 1929
Roads n. 20, 34, 37, 38, 39
(3) Italian www.tazionuvolari.it/corse4it.htm Tazio Nuvolari official website
(4) Italian Autosprint 35/1987 (page 23) Proposed hillclimb 1987
(5) Italian Ruoteclassiche 162/2002 (page 62) August 2002 [Publishing date: August 2002]

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Circuito delle Tre Province
Description
Years	1929÷1931
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Road course
Inauguration	1929
Closing	1931
Last update of this page	September 12^th 2007
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Bagni di Porretta - Ponte della Venturina - Molino del Pallone - Pracchia - Cutigliano - Passo dell’Abetone - Pievepelago - Sestola - Fanano - Lizzano in Belvedere - Bagni di Porretta
length	128.5 km	79.848 mi	(3)

Circuito delle Tre Province (Emilia/Toscana)

Latitude - Longitude: + 44°09'29", + 10°58'31"
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DETAIL

NOTE:
ponte = bridge
bivio = junction to m km mi

a.s.l. partial total partial total

Bagni della Porretta 349 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

bivio Granaglione 400 2.0 2.0 1.2 1.2

Ponte della Venturina 400 1.4 3.4 0.9 2.1

bivio Granaglione 540 3.2 6.6 2.0 4.1

ponte sul Randaragna 515 3.9 10.5 2.4 6.5

Biagioni 521 0.7 11.2 0.4 7.0

ponte sull'Orsigno 603 4.3 15.5 2.7 9.6

Pracchia 607 0.8 16.3 0.5 10.1

ponte sul Reno 617 0.6 16.9 0.4 10.5

Pontepetri 668 3.0 19.9 1.9 12.4

ponte sul Maresca 678 0.5 20.4 0.3 12.7

Ponte della Falce 718 1.3 21.7 0.8 13.5

Podere Belvedere 821 2.5 24.2 1.6 15.0

Limestre 630 3.1 27.3 1.9 17.0

S.Marcello Pistoiese 623 1.9 29.2 1.2 18.1

Mammiano 575 1.6 30.8 1.0 19.1

bivio Prunetta 520 0.9 31.7 0.6 19.7

ponte sul Lima 454 1.2 32.9 0.7 20.4

Cartiera della Lima 454 0.1 33.0 0.1 20.5

Casotti 585 4.6 37.6 2.9 23.4

Ponte Sestaione 637 0.7 38.3 0.4 23.8

Piansinatico 948 4.5 42.8 2.8 26.6

Sant'Antonio 1154 2.6 45.4 1.6 28.2

Fontana Vaccaia 1255 1.7 47.1 1.1 29.3

Boscolungo 1360 2.7 49.8 1.7 31.0

Passo dell'Abetone 1388 0.7 50.5 0.4 31.4

Faidello 1215 3.1 53.6 1.9 33.3

Ponte Picchiasassi 1079 1.6 55.2 1.0 34.3

ponte Rio delle Pozze 1050 0.1 55.3 0.1 34.4

bivio Fiumalbo 1000 3.6 58.9 2.2 36.6

ponte sul torrente delle Tagliole 760 3.4 62.3 2.1 38.7

bivio Foce delle Radici 780 0.9 63.2 0.6 39.3

ponte Rio Perticaro 780 0.1 63.3 0.1 39.3

Pievepelago 781 0.5 63.8 0.3 39.7

ponte sullo Scoltenna 780 1.8 65.6 1.1 40.8

Riolunato 730 2.9 68.5 1.8 42.6

Montecreto 868 9.7 78.2 6.0 48.6

Roncoscaglia 908 3.5 81.7 2.2 50.8

Sestola 1020 3.2 84.9 2.0 52.8

bivio Castellato 900 1.2 86.1 0.7 53.5

Fanano 640 4.8 90.9 3.0 56.5

ponte sul Leo 450 4.0 94.9 2.5 59.0

ponte sul Dardagno 390 5.4 100.3 3.4 62.3

la Masera 774 8.2 108.5 5.1 67.4

bivio Vidiciatico 770 3.3 111.8 2.1 69.5

Lizzano in Belvedere 635 1.4 113.2 0.9 70.4

bivio Montacuto dell'Alpi 612 0.8 114.0 0.5 70.9

Ponte del Podestà 515 1.3 115.3 0.8 71.7

bivio Gaggio Montano 410 7.7 123.0 4.8 76.4

Osteria Silla 328 3.0 126.0 1.9 78.3

ponte sul Silla 328 0.1 126.1 0.1 78.4

Bagni della Porretta 349 3.0 129.1 1.9 80.2

Updates

Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note

January 24^th 2004 Guido de Carli Update Description

August 9^th 2003 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli New Description with map

Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
January 24^th 2004			Guido de Carli			Update	Description
August 9^th 2003			Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		New	Description with map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list