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at the beginning of eighty years Gianfranco, toghether with Alfonso Bietolini, he projects the GEA (Grande Escursione Appenninica) on behalf of CAI and Regione Toscana.

In the years succeeded ,with to other national experts it invents the Sentiero Italia. In late years Ninety he plans "Dolce Campagna Antiche Mura" on behalf of several communes belonging to three Touscany provinces Siena, Pisa and Firenze after he is part of the projecting team of the way Progetto Esecutivo Chianti. In the new century he projects, with to Giuseppe Deugenio, the Anello del Rinascimento (the first trekking way around Firenze) and the trekking way Bologna-Firenze.

... from an Article of Marco Lapi exited on "Toscana Quì"

Mountains of Tuscany. They are many and for all the tastes. Sure, they do not catch up the quotas the Alps but sometimes of it they have the aspect and also the name. Like the Apuane, our Dolomiti small with sight on the sea, tops not even two thousand meters that they know to satisfy also the rockers more demanding. Who loves calmer walks, instead, does not have that the embarrassment of the choice: kilometers and kilometers of Appennine crinale which they make head hundred of paths. Just along this ridge, by now nearly twenty years ago, Gianfranco Bracci and Alfonso Bietolini devised the Great Appennine Excursion (Gea), one of the first "Great routes" for the joy of geting passionate of trekking, 400 kilometers subdivided in 25 stages from the Umbro-Marchigiano valico of Trabaria Mouth to that from Liguria one of the Step of the Two Know to you. Little after, between Apuane and Appennino the Garfagnana Trekking was developed and still today these two distances are the more interesting between the many that later on have been realize to you in the other zones mount some or collinari of the region. The Gea, moreover, has entered to make part of the "Italy Path" (that it crosses all the peninsula) and European "E1 way".

     

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