The Mantuan' Oltrepò parks cycle route
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THE MANTUAN ’OLTREPO’ PARKS CYCLE ROUTE
Suzzara – San Benedetto Po – Felonica - Suzzara
Lombardia
4 days /3 nights
Biking slowly like the River slow flow, enjoying the nature at the heart of the Po Plain. Experience the parks, the ancient farmhouses, the small villages so rich in history and art, the long standing relationship between humans and the water.
In hotels*** or B&B or holiday farm, self guided, without portage
Day 1
Suzzara - Pegognaga
( 30 km).
The tour developes all over EV8, along Po River banks. You start from Suzzara, the largest town in the Southern Mantua area, then you cycle through San Colombano Park, on the flood plains overlooking the villages of Riva and Tabellano, going on Po River banks to get Pegognaga. Visit the country church Pieve di San Lorenzo and San Lorenzo Park, “a place to show off the history and nature of the Po Plain”.
Day 2
Pegognaga - San Benedetto Po + Mouth of the River Secchia
( 27 km )
Always riding the Po River embankments, you arrive to San Benedetto Po, where you can visit the Benedictine legacy and Abbey, the pumping work of San Siro and the Golene Foce Secchia Park, encloses the final section of the Secchia River, from the border with Emilia until it meets the Po.
Day 3
San Benedetto Po - Carbonara Po
(28 km)
You leave San Benedetto Po and go on the eastern strip of the province, noted for its distribution of villages along the river embanks. You see: Pieve di Coriano, clustered around its Matildic church, Revere, with its Palazzo Ducale considered a masterpiece of Mantua’s early Renaissance, Borgofranco sul Po, partner of Mantuan truffle route, and Carbonara Po.
Day 4
Carbonara Po – Sermide – Felonica – Suzzara
(km 27)
You start your tour visiting the Isola Boscone nature oasis, a favourite habitat of rare bird species, you go on to the pumping works of Moglia di Sermide, one of the most important industrial archeology remains in the entire province of Mantua, and then the Gruccione Park, until you arrive in Felonica, the easternmost centre in the province. See the parish church of Assunta, linked to a lost Benedictine monastery and erected by Matilda di Canossa. You come back to Suzzara by a local train, travelling along the railway route Ferrara/Suzzara that is 150 years old. On fixed date you have the chance to come back to Riva di Suzzara on “Cicogna boat”, enjoying the landscape from the water.
This program is subject to change if necessary
INFO:
SHERPA VIAGGI
Piazza Matteotti, 42 - 46020 Pegognaga (MN)
Tel. (0039) 0376 550618 – Fax (0039) 0376 550637
[email protected] - www.sherpaviaggi.it
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