page_title: Gastone Nencini
section_title: Memory
hierarchical_section_title: Gastone Nencini / Memory
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plaque Gastone Nencini au passo della Futa
context_page_description: Gastone Nencini was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia.
  Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello", Nencini was a powerful all-rounder, particularly strong in the mountains.
  He was an amateur painter and a chain smoker. He was a gifted descender. "The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani. It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain on Stage 14 of the 1960 Tour de France that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine.
context_section_description: At the Futa pass, on the mountains over his native Barberino di Mugello, a monument is placed remembering him: a big bronze bas-relief portrait of him racing and the inscription which says: "A Gastone Nencini. Il comune di Barberino, gli sportivi, i compagni di tante battaglie ricordano il campione mugellano" (translated from Italian: "To Gastone Nencini. The administration of Barberino, the sportsmen, the comrades of many battles remember the Mugello-born champion").
caption: Monument at Futa pass
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