Massa and Cozzile are two charming Tuscan mountain villages located in the hills between Prato and Pistoia. They can be connected by old and mostly shaded paths. The village of Massa has nothing in common with the city of Massa. The generally easy hike is quite sweaty due to its length and unexpected uphill sections.
We start from the cemetery below Massa, ascending through Porta Diaz into the compact village center and continue uphill on Via Roma to the upper resident parking lot. In the same direction, continue on rough cobblestones uphill and at the water reservoir turn left. At the next junction also turn left uphill. After two bends we stand beneath the fortified wall of Cozille. Here, turn left and continue under the wall from the cobblestone street onto a meadow path to Porta Nuova, 400 m, with a viewpoint before it.Cozzile has only one main central street, here we proceed forward until leaving the village to the north. On the road, turn left below the cemetery, pass a washhouse and a chapel on the right, and after the following right curve turn right downhill, signposted to Croci, No. 44. Now partly downhill on a forest road into the ravine of Fosso Volata. Just before crossing the ravine, the path steeply climbs up and then continues steeply, until on a bend the poorer forest road
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