" Veloce Bike Rental: November 2009

Cycling vacations in Dolomites Italy


Followed the cycle path down the Puster valley from Innichen/Dobbiaco. Excellently signposted, on small sealed farm roads and forest paths. Rode the whole way to Bressanone with minimal interaction with traffic.



your cycling vacations in Dolomites Italy
in this picture mr. Alastair from Australia with our bike


Autumnal Wine roads - Bike cycling path around villages of Vicenza hills province



Autumnal Wine roads - Bike cycling path
around villages and hills of Vicenza province.

Today I was in Montebello, a small village around Vicenza.
I would like publish in this post two pictures that I have take with my mobile phone, (please check the suggestive autumnal colors)
This shots content cycling tourist riding ike on this lovely wine roads around Vicenza and the roads around Vicenza hills.
I'm available to give more information for this itinerary.





bike cycling path from Trento to Beseno Castle along Adige River

Bike cycling path from Trento to Beseno Castle along Adige River.

This bike path, that runs through the valley of the Adige River in Trentino Region, measure about 80 km.

Pedal along the central sector of this path around Trento and Nomi village to Beseno castle (the largest fortified complex of the Trentino region)

You ride the valley through extensive orchards.
This cycling path connects the heart of the Alps to the Po valley.



Point of departure and arrival: Ponte San Lorenzo at the historic center of Trento, near the train station (available in bike transportation regional train), near the cable car station of Sardagna.

Length: 40km

Minimum altitude: 182m (Nomi Bridge)
Maximum altitude : 370m (Beseno Castle parking area)
Recommended period: all year except for the hottest days of summer

Arquà Petrarca : In the heart of the Colli Euganeithe route of the poet Francesco Petrarch



The proposed itinerary refers to the route of the poet Francesco Petrarch when he went to his house in the Colli Euganei from padua.
The excursionis very rich in tourist attractions and users cycle paths and secondary roads with little traffic in places on unmade surfaces.

From the Roman Excavations of Montegrotto Terme we head towards teh Battaglia canal, on the top of whose embankment runsa pleasant cycle path. The first thing to emerge along the road is Villa Obizzi, more commonly know ad the castle of the Catajo for the way in which this noble residence of Pio Enea I of the Obizzi, military leader of the Serenissima, had it copnstructed in military style; the villa has over 350 rooms.

After the castle, an unexpected scene on the canal opens : on a wide stretch of the waterway we find moored some boats; this is the navigation lock, celebrated because it allows the boats to negotiate a rise in water level of ever seven metres.

Meanwhile, in the background there is Battaglia Terme, the inner city is characterised by a special arrangement of the houses on the waterfront, whit its original stepped bridge in Venetian style and the hydraulic guardhouse in the neighbourhood of which stand mills, a hammer for wrought iron work, a saw and a paper mill, contructed to exploit the hydraulic energy released by the fall in water level.



Pedalling again along the cycle path we stop anew in the area of a tourist poster that illustres the hydraulic details of the canal bridge of Rivella and admire the splendid country landscape of the Valli Selvatiche , comprising the Villa Selvatico-Sartori that stands on the Sant'Elena hill, the surrounding fertile countryside and the pronounced backdrop of the Colli Euganei.
Having left the lift bridge, one discovers, hidden by an elegant Italian style garden, the beautiful Villa Emo, the work of Vincenzo Scamozzi.

The long straight stretch ends in the port of Monselice, from where the visit to the inner city begins, an authentic jewel case of art, history, archaeology and nature.
From the walled city one turns into a beautiful little-used foothill road on a slight incline that turns around Ricco mount.

Having traversed an uneven plain the hamlet of Arquà Petrarca appears, to whose name is tied of the poet (Petrarch). The itinerary leads to the large square in front of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta where the monumental tomb of the poet is conserved.
Petrarch's house is to be found in the upper part of village, I advise you to reach it on foot because of the steep slopes.



Having left the hamlet of Arquà, for about two kilometres one travels along a road that can be busy during weekends and holidays and it ends at the Lago della Costa, a natural basin fed by thermal springs.

The retourn to Battaglia Terme is on unmade roads surrounded by a veru striking landscape.
From the hamlet of Monticelli we admire the picturesque Villa Renier, built on the summit of a rise and surrounded by a high wall and at the foot of the mount of Lispida Villa Italia.
From Monticelli we suggest to follow the route to Valsanzibio ad visit the beautiful and historical garden of Villa Barbarigo.



In Battaglia Terme we discovered the road we set out on and this way we retourn to Montegrotto Terme.







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Abano Terme. Orchards, parks and gardens : easy bike ride.

This easy bike ride start in the heart of the spa town and forms a ring around itself, in this way allowing admire the elements of rural scenery : from the agrarian arrangements to traditional cultivations, from the houses of hired hands to the gentlemanly Veneto villas. The route follows cycle paths, secondary roads and countryside lanes.


In the Abano Terme we leave from the Piazza della Repubblica and skirt round Villa Piave, a rare and beautiful example of Liberty architecture with an early 1900s garden. This asymmetric building with exuberant plasterwork is surrounded by thivk vegetation composed of evergreen and exotic plants.
Travelling along Via Mazzini one reaches the entrance to Villa Bassi Rathgeb, home of the Civic Museum : the internal rooms host cultural exhibitions and demonstrations while the park is the site of an important horse-riding competition.
Turning into Via Appia Monterosso one reaches the Duomo with a Romanesque bell-tower named after San Lorenzo Martire.
A few hundred metres further on one can admire the sixteenth century Villa Malipiero Rigoni with its attached oratory and magnificient pigeon loft.
Resuming the route we next reach the Villa Trevisan-Savioli, now the seat of the Sartori Mask Museum.



Opposite us we find a beautiful farmhouse from the end of the 1700s with the habitable part juxtaposed with a porticoed stall.
I invite you to carefully observe the building details : the wooden shutters and the faceted chimneypot.
They are examples of traditional Veneto architecture that are becoming rare. The suggestive secondary roads cross cornersof the countryside enclosed by bushes or more rarely by rows of trees and vines as was used in the typical Paduan agrarian system, which used to present the profile of the fields as a curvature of a "mule's back". Soon one returns to the spa centre and crosses it until stopping in front of the entrance gateway to the park situated on the hill of Montirone.
This high ground of travertine (clear and porous rock) used as a public garden is different from the other Euganean hills for its special geological genesis ; it is in fact the only one to have originated from the calcareous sediment produced by the abundant thermal springs that gushed out freely until the middle of the last century. One starts pedalling again on the cycle path in the direction of Monteortone to newly surround oneself in the agrarian landscape of Abano, here enriched by the variety of shapes of the Colli Euganei. Set apart from all the hilly group, the Ortone and Rosso mounts are covered by a wild woodland mantle that contrast with the gentleness of the surrounding countryside.
Having reached the hamlet of Monterosso it is possible to contemplate a relaxing stop in the public park of Villa Monzino, called the Bembiana.
Taking up the bicycle again one proceeds surrounded by the silence of the countryside to the hamlet of Feriole where we find the Villa Foscolo that takes its name from the famous writer that composed here his first masterpiece "the last letters of Jacopo Ortis". Of a special interest there is also the nearby complex of Milan, a rare example of a rural courtyard built in neoclassical style.
At the side of the votive niche dedicated to Saint Anthony one turns to the right into Via Pezzolo at the end of wich there is a convenient cycle path that takes us to Villa Bassi Rathgeb.


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From Terme Euganee to Padova



The tourist who stays in hotel in Terme Euganee can reach the inner city of Padua in the midst of greenery, protected from traffic and in total safety.
The reccomended routes are illuminated along the stretches within Padua and Abano Terme.

From Abano Terme to Padua (13,5 km) :
From Tourist Information Office of Abano Terme we go beyond the thermal spa and we make for locality of Giarre, where, thanks to an underpass one passes over the Padua-Bologna railway line.
After that, an asphalted cycle path takes us to the bank of the Battaglia canal.
Making towards the north we skirt Villa Molin and reach the area of Bassanello, where a route equipped with overpasses and underpasses leads onto the Lungargine Scaricatore.
In the area of Ponte Quattro Martiri one diverts along the city cycling network.

From Montegrotto Terme to Padua (14,5 km) :
From Tourist Information Office of Montegrotto Terme we strike out towards the locality of Mezzavia, firstly on a normal road then on a cycle path.
having reached the bridge on turns left and heads in the opposite direction to the water flow in the Battaglia Canal.
After about 10 km from the start one reaches Bassanello, where thanks to a route equipped with overpasses and underpasses we pass over the Battaglia and Scaricatore canals to reach the inner city.



Villa Molin garden picture


Villa Molin picture

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GPS navigator tracking equipment available, not difficult path.



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Around Pauda by bicycle... customized itineraries with logistic support !


Even if these are no longer waterways for flat bottomed boats as used to be case, whoever experiences river and canal journeys has the impression of entering the area by main door; identifying oneself with the "boatmen of yesteryear", it is possible with my rental bike shop to travel along many embankments and take in the Paduan scenery, understanding in this way the existing relationship between inhabited centres and natural resources.

The almost exclusively flat morphology of the land and the mildness of the climate (the number of rain in a year average only 80!) are another two factors that flavour cycle touring in Padua Province in every season.

The Padua town are connected with the natural sceneries and Terme Euganee with 12 suggested journeys and in 2 categories :
  • cycling excursions (circuits that commit the tourist to half a day)
  • cycle touring itineraries (routes that require a propensity for pedalling)
All the journeys have been designed to more or less develop around a circuit, that is with departure and arrival points.
With my rental bike services we can customize your itinerary and deliver the bikes (pick-up or drop off) in all points of your journey, between Italian regions, towns and provinces.

An example : you can start your trip from Padua, go to Garda Lake or dolomites, Pisa or Chianti region, take the train with our bike or request logistic support for transfer the bike and your luggages around the paths of your itinerary.

We must only organize your cycling trip or excursions !
please send an email for receive a free estimate costs and all informations for make your customized bicycle holidays in Italy to
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Ciao, and have a nice holidays.
Jerry de Concilio
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thank you very mouch to local tourist office for all informations contained in his guide.

Padua and its Province by bicycle



From the source to the lake, from the lagoon to the river, from the wood to the multitude of cultivated fields : not many lands in temperate climates can boast of such a great variety of ecosystems as that of Padua province.
The work of man in the same area that is more or less a plain if you exclude the isolated microcosm of the Colli Euganei, has produced an exceptionally rich set of historical, cultural and artistic examples : archeological evidence of the ancient Venetians and Romans, castles and medieval hamlets, Venetian villas and Renaissance abbeys.
I would like propose to take the tourists to discover various surroundings and cultural roots of this territory from the perspective with my rental bike shop.
This means of locomotion is ideal for thise who interpret by slow motion and thereby in close contact with the environment.
The choice of bike has been dictated by the fact that it allows one to enter the territory in a respectful, silent and ecological way and thus encourage tourist to immerse themselves in their surroundings and become co-players.
The suggested itineraries that I will publish step by step in this blog are within the capacity of every cyclist, there is no need to be a young athlete to experience and active holiday; but it is simply sufficient to maintain a youthful desire for discovery and rent my working bicycle (with many useful accessories) that fits your own stature, to begin the journey.
The land within the province of Padua offer great opportunities for the cycling tourist : for example the province is criss-crossed by navigable waterways over 150 km (paths for your cycling tour).

Have a nice holidays.
Jerry de Concilio
owner of That's Amore, Italian Cycling Holidays & more...



*thank you very much to the touristic pubblication by tourism center of Padua for hint to my text creation contents.

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