EUROVELO 7 BIKE PATH | FROM PESCHIERA TO MANTUA ON THE MINCIO BIKE PATH
ITALIAN TRAVEL! HERE I AM ON LAKE GARDA, IN PESCHIERA DEL GARDA. IF YOU LIKE RIDING A BIKE IN THE NATURE YOU MUST KNOW THAT FROM PESCHIERA STARTS A NICE BIKE PATH THAT FOLLOWS THE BANK OF THE RIVER MINCIO AND GETS TO MANTUA!
FROM PESCHIERA DEL GARDA TO MANTUA IT'S ABOUT 27 MILES. IT IS A VERY EASY PAVED LANE, ALL FLAT. IF YOU ARE TRAINED YOU CAN GO FROM PESCHIERA TO MANTUA AND GET BACK IN ONE DAY. IF YOU ARE NOT TRAINED IN ABOUT 4 HOURS YOU ARE IN MANTUA, WHEN IN MANTUA YOU CAN TAKE A TRAIN TO GET BACK TO PESCHIERA.
THIRD OPTION: YOU CAN LEAVE FROM PESCHIERA DEL GARDA, WHEN IN MANTUA YOU CAN VISIT THE CITY, STAY OVERNIGHT, THE NEXT MORNING YOU CAN VISIT MANTUA AND THEN COME BACK BY BIKE IN ANOTHER 3-4 HOURS, SO A GOOD IDEA ALSO FOR A WEEKEND!
THE PESCHIERA – MANTUA BIKE PATH IS PART OF THE EUROVELO7 ROUTE, 4.700 MILES LONG BIKE PATH FROM NORTH CAPE – IN NORWAY - TO MALTA.
THE VERY FIRST MILES OF THE LANE PROCEED ALONG THE RIGHT BANK OF THE MINCIO RIVER. AFTER 4 MILES I EASILY REACH THE SALIONZE DAM.
THE BIKE LANE PASSES THROUGH VALEGGIO SUL MINCIO, I AM IN THE PROVINCE OF VERONA. HERE IS A THING THAT DRAWS MY ATTENTION AND WORTH A VISIT!
THE ORIGIN OF THE SIGURTA GARDEN PARK DATES BACK TO THE 15TH CENTURY. THE CURRENT LOOK IS DUE TO THE INDUSTRIALIST GIUSEPPE CARLO SIGURTÀ, WHO BEGAN A GREAT WORK OF REDEVELOPMENT OF THE PARK IN 1941, WHICH IS NOWADAYS 60 HECTARES BIG. THANKS TO THE PASSION AND DEDICATION OF THE SIGURTA FAMILY, IN 2013 THE GARDEN WAS AWARDED AS "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PARK IN ITALY" AND "THE SECOND MOST BEAUTIFUL PARK IN EUROPE" IN 2015!
LUCKILY, THE 6 MILES OF WALKWAYS CAN ALSO BE COVERED BY BIKE, OTHERWISE I WOULD TAKE A WHOLE DAY TO ADMIRE ALL THIS BEAUTY!
A SIGNALED CIRCUIT WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE GARDEN, IN A BEAUTIFUL TOUR UP AND DOWN THE HILLS THAT EVENTUALLY WILL TAKE THE WIND OUT OF YOUR SAILS…BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT!
VALEGGIO SU L MINCIO CASTLE: IN 1117 A HUGE EARTHQUAKE SHAKES DOWN NORTHERN ITALY AND CAUSES A LOT OF DAMAGE. THE CASTLE OF VALEGGIO SUL MINCIO IS DESTROYED. IN 1262 THE DELLA SCALA FAMILY, THE RULING FAMILY OF VERONA, ORDERED THE REBUILDING OF THE CASTLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A VERY IMPORTANT DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE FROM THE CASTLE OF VALEGGIO SUL MINCIO, TAHT REACHED VILLAFRANCA DI VERONA AND NOGAROLE: 10 MILES OF DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE! AT THE END OF THE 14TH CENTURY THE VISCONTI FAMILY OF MILAN CONQUERED THIS AREA. THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF THE CASTLE AND BUILT AN EVEN MORE POWERFUL DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE FROM THE CASTLE TO THE BORGHETTO BRIDGE, NOWADAYS KNOWN AS THE PONTE VISCONTEO.
IN THE 16TH CENTURY THE VENETIANS ARRIVED, THEY FORTIFIED PESCHIERA DEL GARDA ON LAKE GARDA AND THEY ABANDONED THIS AREA.
BORGHETTO: 700 YARDS LONG AND 27 YARDS WIDE. SIMPLY THE "LONG BRIDGE" FOR THE INHABITANTS. IT GIVES A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF BORGHETTO, THE BEST DISTRICT OF VALEGGIO SUL MINCIO. THE OLD TOWN OF BORGHETTO STILL HAS THE TYPICAL LOOK OF A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE, WITH THE ANCIENT DEFENSIVE WALL AND THE MEDIEVAL MILLS. THIS SMALL HAMLET LIVES IN HARMONY WITH THE MINCIO RIVER. TODAY BORGHETTO HAS BECOME A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION WHERE TO SPEND PLEASANT HOURS DRENCHED IN ITS PEACE AND COLOURS!
BUT IT'S TIME TO LEAVE, MANTUA IS FAR AWAY. JUST OUTSIDE VALEGGIO I AM BACK IN THE NATURE. AMONG FARMS AND CULTIVATED FIELDS I ENTER LOMBARDY. IN VOLTA MANTOVANA THE RIVER MINCIO EMBRACES A SMALL ISLAND WHERE THERE IS THE “CHIOSCO DEI MULINI” - “KIOSK OF THE MILLS”, THE LAST PLACE ON THE MINCIO BIKE PATH WERE YOU CAN GET SOMETHING TO DRINK OR TO EAT. FROM HERE TO MANTUA THERE ARE NO OTHER REST STOPS.
NOW THE LANE FOLLOWS ONE OF ITS CANALS CALLED THE POZZOLO MAGLIO, AND THE BIKE PATH PROCEEDS ON THE RIGHT SHORE OF THE CANAL, BUT IF YOU WANT, JUST BEFORE REACH MANTUA, YOU CAN TURN LEFT AND LEAVE THE BIKE PATH. JUST 1 MILE AND YOU REACH THE “FOREST OF THE FOUNTAIN”, A HANDFUL OF HECTARES OF LOWLAND FOREST LUCKILY REMAINED UNTOUCHED FOR CENTURIES, BECAUSE IT WAS THE HUNTING GROUND OF THE GONZAGA FAMILY, THE RULING FAMILY OF MANTOVA. THIS IS A NATURAL RESERVE, I CANNOT GET IN BY BIKE. THE "HUNTING LODGE" LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF A CLEARING IS ACTUALLY A SMALL CASTLE NOT OPEN TO VISITORS.
I’M BACK ON THE BIKE PATH THAT IMMEDIATELY MOVES AWAY FROM THE CANAL AND HEADS TOWARDS THE CITY. I PASS BY THE MINCIO ROWING CLUB AND RIDE ON THE BRIDGE OF THE MILLS THAT SPLITS THE RIVER MINCIO IN TWO PARTS CALLED “THE UPPER LAKE” AND “THE MIDDLE LAKE”. HERE IS THE RIVER AGAIN, SURROUNDING MANTUA AND WIDENING UNTIL IT LOOKS LIKE A LAKE, GIVING THE CITY THE LARGEST EXPANSE OF WATER LILIES IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE JAPAN!
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