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WWW.EGUIDEXPERIENCE.COM Con il contributo di Regione Lombardia - Bando per la promozione innovativa del prodotto cicloturistico in Lombardia del prodotto innovativa - Bando per la promozione di Regione Lombardia Con il contributo FROM MILAN TO LECCO ALONG LEONARDO DA VINCI’S WATERWAYS First stretch: from Milan city centre to Cassano d’Adda ITINERARY DESCRIPTION INFO ROUTE DIFFICULty: easy This tour has been planned to discover Milan’s North-Eastern channels which were used TRAVEL TIME: one day by Leonardo to design and test his experiments and projects. LENGTH: 33,5 km We divided the tour in three parts that can be travelled also separately. If you have more ELEVATION: 107 mt days available, we suggest to take your time in order to enjoy the landscapes and the CYCLABILIty: 100% most fascinating locations. The itinerary starts from Piazza Marconi in Brera district, Recomended Time: between March and October where there once was “Tombon de San Marc”, then continues on a cycle path beside the Suggested bike type: City bikes or Mountain bikes. Naviglio in via Melchiorre Gioia that has been unfortunately covered. After you cross the For the less trained, we suggest an e-bike. Isola and Greco districts you get to the memorable “Cassina de Pomm” where Naviglio della Martesana re-emerges. We move forward now using the old roads next to the Navi- For more multimedia and geo-referenced infor- glio that had been used by horses to pull back commercial boats to the Adda river and we mation: APP www.eguidexperience.com pass through North-East Milan’s suburbs and towns up to Cassano d’Adda. Info - Assistance - Guides: You can return by train from Cassano d’Adda. There’s the possibility to shorten the trip Turbolento Thinkbike SSD - c/o Rossignoli – catching the subway to Milan at several stops: Turro, Vimodrone, Cascina Burrona, Cernu- Corso Garibaldi 71 MI - Phone: (+39) 02 804960 sco sul Naviglio, Cassina de Pecchi, Gorgonzola and Gessate. If you want to proceed on [email protected] the cycle path alongside the Adda river instead, we suggest you stay in Cassano d’Adda Bici & Vacanze - Via Benedetto Marcello 34, Milano for the night, maybe at Visconteo Castle. We also strongly recommend to use the train MI - Phone: (+39) 02 8414 3812 - [email protected] for your transfers, to go to agreed upon structures to rent a bicycle if you need one - you First aid: emergency number 112 MARTESANA can find them atwww.eguidexperience.com . You can get detailed information about the WWW.EGUIDEXPERIENCE.COM tour contacting the agencies “Turbolento Thinkbike SSD” and “Bici&Vacanze” or down- Ospedale Fatebenefratelli - Piaz Principessa Clotilde 3, loading the eGuideXperience app to get more multimedia and geo-referenced information. Milano MI Con il contributo di Regione Lombardia - Bando per la promozione innovativa del prodotto cicloturistico in Lombardia del prodotto innovativa - Bando per la promozione di Regione Lombardia Con il contributo Path developed in collaboration with Life In Travel Adventures by Bike ecomuseo MAIN PLACES OF INTEREST TOMBONE DI SAN MARCO CASSINA DE POMM AND GRECO Michele Avola | www.micheleavola.it With Tumbun or Tombon, the Milanese indica- MILANESE DISTRICT ted the point where the canal, fed by different Thanks to the trading on the Naviglio della Mar- channels and irrigation ditches, formed dange- tesana - used to take goods to Milan - the di- rous currents caused by the different depths of strict was very rich and industrious. Cassina de the water. The area, in particular the bridge at the Pomm was once the main guest house and no- intersection of via San Marco and via Montebel- wadays just a little garden is left over, in its me- lo, was notoriously known as a favorite spot for mory. Among the celebrities that passed by we suicides. The Tombone of San Marco was a confluence-point connecting know about Carlo Porta, P.B. Stendhal, Cesare Beccaria, Napoleone and the “Naviglio Martesana” to Milan and linked the latter to the channel sy- Giuseppe Garibaldi. Also the old hamlet called Greco was rich in mills and stem of the inner Naviglio. In this area, now famous for the nearby district industries thanks to the “Darsenetta”, the most northern harbour of Milan. of the artists and the famous “Pinacoteca di Brera”, opposite the church of For more info: www.ecomuseomartesana.it San Marco the canal opened in a sort of oblong pond designed.. PIAZZA GAE AULENTI NAVIGLIO DELLA MARTESANA This “modern” square Piazza Gae Aulenti will Also known as Naviglio Piccolo, it’s one of hold your attention not only for its size, which the canals that connect Milan to Adda river. is about 100 meters in diameter but also for its It leads on to Via San Marco, right near Brera di- unique position, rising 6 meters in height above strict, but the last part, up to Cassina de Pomm ground level. It was designed by Argentine Archi- is totally covered. It was built in the fifteenth cen- tect Cesar Pelli and inaugurated on 8 December tury by Francesco Sforza and used to irrigate MARTESANA 2012. Around the square are three large tower the surrounding countryside. It represents the WWW.EGUIDEXPERIENCE.COM offices made of iron and glass - built by Pelli studios, designed and struc- beginning of the ambitious project to connect on a waterway the city Con il contributo di Regione Lombardia - Bando per la promozione innovativa del prodotto cicloturistico in Lombardia del prodotto innovativa - Bando per la promozione di Regione Lombardia Con il contributo tured according to eco-sustainable and energy saving measures, whilst at of Milan to Como lake and then the Alps and Ticino river. the center of the large semi-circular auditorium... For more info: www.ecomuseomartesana.it ecomuseo Michele Avola | www.micheleavola.it CRESCENZAGO CERNUSCO SUL NAVIGLIO In Roman times it was an important villa- The first settlements were Celtics’ and later on ge on the way of several foreign armies that Cernusco became a Roman colony. In the fif- were waiting for the license to enter the town. teenth century it was a feud, governed by Gale- It reached its biggest celebrity during the nine- azzo Maria Sforza who gave it with the towns teenth century, when the wealthy lords of Milan of Gorgonzola and Melzo to Lucia Marliano. started to build their rural residences nearby the After the excavation of Naviglio Della Martesa- Naviglio. They also used to walk and relax in the na, many villas were built in the area making Crescenzago woods, at the edge of the forest of Sesto San Giovanni, Cernusco, in the XVIII and XIX centuries, a popular holiday resort for the in the area of the old lazaret. It’s also important to remember Cascina aristocracy and the rich middle class from Milan. The noble residences Gobba where there once was the historic restaurant in front of which can still be appreciated, together with Santa Maria sanctuary and some the “Leonardo da Vinci” zeppelin took off the 15th of December, 1909. interesting medieval farmsteads... For more info: www.ecomuseomartesana.it GORGONZOLA COLOGNO MONZESE The town has Celtic origins and is now popu- Its origin dates back to 333 A.C. and is con- lar all around the world because of the typical nected to Roman colonisations, in fact it was cheese of the same name. After the Huns’ called “colonia super Lambrum” because the raid of the near Roman city called Argentia in hamlet was on the left side of Lambro river. 453, the small settlement became the most During imperial times and High Middle Ages populated village of the surroundings. In the it was a rural village, but then, after the bar- thirteenth century it was under Della Torres’ MARTESANA barian invasions its territorial division and control, until Viscontis expelled them. In 1288 Gorgonzola was one of the WWW.EGUIDEXPERIENCE.COM organisation was influenced by Lombards. Throughout the Middle Ages, most important parish church of Milan’s archdiocese.You might want to Con il contributo di Regione Lombardia - Bando per la promozione innovativa del prodotto cicloturistico in Lombardia del prodotto innovativa - Bando per la promozione di Regione Lombardia Con il contributo Sant’Ambrogio monastery controlled the area for a few centuries... visit Villa Busca Serbelloni which overlooks Naviglio della Martesana. It For more info: www.ecomuseomartesana.it was built during the sixteenth century and is now a school... ecomuseo CASSANO D’ADDA MUZZA CANAL Some remains found near Porra and Porretta This old canal, built near to Cassano d’Adda’s Michele Avola | www.micheleavola.it farmsteads prove the presence of the Romans castle, catches water from the Adda river and in this area already from the IVth century. The ol- distributes it for 39km in Lodi’s plain until it dest part of the town is built on a hill and its terri- gets back into Adda river near Castiglione. tory is characterized by rich water streams and Muzza canal is one of the most important fertile fields. South-east of Cassano runs the hydraulic works in the territory since it is the ol- Muzza anal, built to protect the castle (the most dest and the biggest irrigation ditch not only in ancient monument) and bring water to the near town of Lodi. A legend Lombardy but in Europe. Parallel to the canal runs a cycling and pe- has it that Cassano is the place where S. Agostino went through his con- destrian path that enables visitors to admire the typical lombard lan- version and the town is rich in religious evidences and churches as the dscape. Prepositurale, S. Dionigi, S. Ambrogio, S. Antonio, S. Aquilino, S. Pietro, For more info: www.prolococassanodadda.com Cristo Risorto and Annunciazi..