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Monte Ortobene Ascent – Velo System loop from Nuoro

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Monte Ortobene Ascent – Velo System loop from Nuoro

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Monte Ortobene Ascent – Velo System loop from Nuoro

01:35

20.8km

460m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 16, 2026

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Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 9.96 km for 161 m

After 18.3 km for 141 m

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4.89 km

Monte Ortobene Ascent

Highlight (Segment) • Summit

Granitic hill located east of the city of Nuoro, at the top is the statue of the redeemer. It was also a historic finish in the Giro di Sardegna.

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Mount Ortobene (Nuoro - Sardinia)

Highlight • Summit

Mount Ortobene is a mountain, close to the town of Nuoro, in central Sardinia, Italy,.

There are two main parks: "Sedda Ortai" and "Il Redentore". At the feet of the mountain is a nuraghe archaeological area including the "Domus de janas" tombs. On the mountain's top is the bronze "Statue of Christ the Redeemer" by Vincenzo Jerace (1901).

Flora of the Ortobene include mostly holm oaks, while wildlife include Sardinian wild boar, weasel, marten, garden dormouse, Sardinian fox, European hare, Barbary partridge, great and lesser spotted woodpecker, Eurasian jay, blue rock-thrush, wood pigeon, Dartford warbler, goshawk, Eurasian sparrowhawk, common kestrel, peregrine falcon and golden eagle.

Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, wrote about Mount Ortobene:
"No, it's not true that the Ortobene can be compared to other mountains; there's only one Ortobene in the whole world: it's our heart, it's our soul, our character, everything big and small, kind and tough and rough and sorrowful in us."

From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortobene)

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17.6 km

Velo System

Highlight • Rest Area

Super nice bike shop with good prices. We asked for new brake pads and the mechanic kindly replaced them on the spot.

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19.1 km

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace

Highlight • Religious Site

History According to legend, the Sanctuary was born thanks to an archaic wooden statue found by a shepherd in the 17th century, who miraculously healed the city from the plague. The ancient sacred building was built in 1670, thanks to the project by Nicola Ruiu Manca, then replaced by a church in 1946. Since 1957, the icon of the Madonna delle Grazie has been kept in the new Sanctuary, next to the church. The Sanctuary The new Sanctuary was designed in the 1950s by the architect Don Verri and is characterized by a high facade, in polished granite, decorated with mosaics representing the fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary. Of the ancient Sanctuary we can only notice the facade, consisting of an ornate portal and a trachyte rose window, derived from the older church of Nuoro. The Sanctuary, as a whole, is formed by a very simple architectural scheme: an elongated room, covered by a barrel vault, which ends in a square presbytery. Inside we can admire two superimposed altars where, in the upper altar, the Virgin of Grace is kept. The small wooden sculpture represents a young woman holding the Child to her breast with her left hand and who, in turn, holds the world in the palm of her hand. To appreciate the cycle of seventeenth-century frescoes that outline the figures of the twelve Apostles with other Saints. Noteworthy is the imposing bell tower, which was also part of the previous Sanctuary.
Source: vaticano.com/turismo/scheda_19_santuario-di-nostra-signora-delle-grazie.html

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Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

17.0 km

3.18 km

463 m

143 m

Surfaces

17.7 km

2.28 km

343 m

264 m

212 m

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Highest point (910 m)

Lowest point (520 m)

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Monte Ortobene Ascent – Velo System loop from Nuoro

Monte Ortobene Ascent

Mount Ortobene (Nuoro - Sardinia)

Velo System

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace

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