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The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded, when they finally reach the village the Cocuzzos discover so much more than their own family story.
For many Jews in the 1940s, the road to San Donato was one of exile; during World War II, dozens were interned in the village. When the Nazis came to ship them off to death camps, however, many of the villagers went to heroic lengths to save their lives. Walking and pedaling through this history, Robert Cocuzzo is determined to learn the role his family played at the time. The Road to San Donato is a story of fathers and sons, discovering lost cousins, valorous history, and the challenge and exhilaration of traveling by bicycle.

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Stephen descending the cobblestone streets outside Colleferro Italy - photo 1
Stephen descending the cobblestone streets outside Colleferro Italy - photo 2

Stephen descending the cobblestone streets outside Colleferro, Italy

Stephen at work in his hair salon Papa in front of his pride and joy - photo 3

Stephen at work in his hair salon

Papa in front of his pride and joy before his father sold it Cocuzzo family - photo 4

Papa in front of his pride and joy, before his father sold it (Cocuzzo family photo)

Three generations of Cocuzzo men Photo by Joshua Simpson Stephen in - photo 5

Three generations of Cocuzzo men (Photo by Joshua Simpson)

Stephen in Florence enjoying the first of countless cups of coffee - photo 6

Stephen in Florence, enjoying the first of countless cups of coffee

Stephen admiring the Arno River in Florence Rob pretending not to be lost - photo 7

Stephen admiring the Arno River in Florence

Rob pretending not to be lost View of the Tuscan hills just outside of - photo 8

Rob pretending not to be lost

View of the Tuscan hills just outside of San Casciano dei Bagni Stephen - photo 9

View of the Tuscan hills just outside of San Casciano dei Bagni

Stephen cruising through the rolling hills of Tuscany on the second day - photo 10

Stephen cruising through the rolling hills of Tuscany on the second day

Rob preparing himself for more riding despite excruciating knee pain - photo 11

Rob preparing himself for more riding despite excruciating knee pain

Stephen approaching the Colosseum on their way out of Rome Italian - photo 12

Stephen approaching the Colosseum on their way out of Rome

Italian cycling legend Tulio Rossi poses with Stephen and Rob in his bike shop - photo 13

Italian cycling legend Tulio Rossi poses with Stephen and Rob in his bike shop

Rossi tinkering away in his shop on the outskirts of Rome Entering San - photo 14

Rossi tinkering away in his shop on the outskirts of Rome

Entering San Donato for the first time Stephen resting outside the BB in - photo 15

Entering San Donato for the first time

Stephen resting outside the BB in San Donato The rooftops of San Donato - photo 16

Stephen resting outside the B&B in San Donato

The rooftops of San Donato with the Apennines in the distance Some of the - photo 17

The rooftops of San Donato with the Apennines in the distance

Some of the San Donato sitcom cast Pasqualina Perrella saved the lives of - photo 18

Some of the San Donato sitcom cast

Pasqualina Perrella saved the lives of a number of Jews during the Nazi - photo 19

Pasqualina Perrella saved the lives of a number of Jews during the Nazi occupation.

The World War II monument in the heart of San Donato Stephen fast asleep - photo 20

The World War II monument in the heart of San Donato

Stephen fast asleep in the piazza of San Donato Gaetano Cocuzzo - photo 21

Stephen fast asleep in the piazza of San Donato

Gaetano Cocuzzo explaining the Cocuzzo family tree The monument in San - photo 22

Gaetano Cocuzzo explaining the Cocuzzo family tree

The monument in San Donato is dedicated to the Jewish people who lost their - photo 23

The monument in San Donato is dedicated to the Jewish people who lost their lives during the Nazi occupation, especially a young girl named Noemi Levi.

Stephen speaking with Delia Roffo in the piazza Via Orologio the street - photo 24

Stephen speaking with Delia Roffo in the piazza

Via Orologio the street where Robs great-grandfather was born in San Donato - photo 25

Via Orologio, the street where Robs great-grandfather was born in San Donato

Rob and Stephen overlooking Florence from the Piazzale Michelangelo the day - photo 26

Rob and Stephen overlooking Florence from the Piazzale Michelangelo the day before returning to the United States

THE ROAD TO
SAN DONATO

THE ROAD TO
SAN DONATO

FATHERS, SONS, AND
CYCLING ACROSS ITALY

ROBERT COCUZZO

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Copyright 2019 by Robert Cocuzzo

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Mountaineers Books and its colophon are registered trademarks of The Mountaineers organization.

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Distributed in the United Kingdom by Cordee, www.cordee.co.uk

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Copyeditor: Amy Smith Bell

Cover and book design: Jen Grable

Cartographer: Lohnes + Wright

All photographs by the author unless credited otherwise

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