ITALY - BY BIKE FROM AUSTRIA TO THE ADRIATIC SEA
WELCOME BACK TO ITALIAN-TRAVEL! TODAY I'M AT RESIA PASS, AT 5.000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. I'M ABOUT TO START THE LONGEST TRIP I'VE EVER MADE BY BIKE: 280 MILES BY BIKE FROM AUSTRIA TO THE ADRIATIC SEA! FROM THE SNOWY LANDSCAPES OF TRENTINO ALTO ADIGE, THROUGH THE CITIES OF BOLZANO AND TRENTO, ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER ADIGE, DOWN TO VERONA AND THE VENETIAN PLAIN TO THE ADRIATIC SEA!

LAKE RESIA IS ARTIFICIAL. UNTIL THE 1940'S THERE WERE 3 NATURAL LAKES: LAKE RESIA, LAKE CURON AND LAKE SAN VALENTINO. THEN THE BUILDING OF A DAM CAUSED THE WATERS OF TWO LAKES MERGE INTO A SINGLE ARTIFICIAL LAKE WHICH SUBMERGED COMPLETELY THE VILLAGE OF CURON VENOSTA, WHERE THE VERY POPULAR BELL TOWER EMERGING FROM THE LAKE REMINDS US WHERE THAT VILLAGE STOOD IN THE PAST

I KEEP ON TRAVELLING ALONG THE SHORES OF THE FROZEN LAKES TO THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF BURGUSIO, KNOWN FOR ITS PRINCE'S CASTLE AND THE ABBEY OF MOUNT MARY, THE HIGHEST BENEDICTINE MONASTERY IN EUROPE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE TYROL, AND THEN TOWN TO GLORENZA, WITH ITS BEAUTIFUL MEDIEVAL WALLS AND THE TRADITIONAL LOOK OF SOUTHERN TYROL, AND WITH ITS BEAUTIFUL ARCADES, THE SMALLEST I'VE EVER SEEN!

THE BIKE PATH IS ALWAYS WELL MARKED. THERE IS ALWAYS THE RAILWAY RUNNING BY THE BIKE PATH IN CASE OF NEED.

MERANO WAS A TOURIST DESTINATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND IS VERY BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE IT’S VERY WELL PRESERVED, IT WAS SPARED FROM THE BOMBING OF THE WORLD WAR II BECAUSE HERE THE INJURED SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN TO BE NURSED, IN FACT IN 1944 MERANO WAS DECLARED A HOSPITAL TOWN
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MERANO IS SIMPLY STUNNING, FROM THE ART NOUVEAU BUILDINGS IN THE OLD TOWN TO THE CITY'S MOST REPRESENTATIVE BUILDINGS, SUCH AS THE KURHAUS, A GREAT EXHIBITION SPACE FOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS, AND ALSO A THEATRE, ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS IN EUROPE. VERY BEAUTIFUL ALSO THE ROMAN BRIDGE, WHICH STAYS UNDER THE TAPPEINER PROMENADE, THAT GIVES A SPLENDID VIEW OF THE OLD TOWN OF MERANO FROM ABOVE. THE PROMENADE IS DEDICATED TO FRANZ TAPPEINER, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE HISTORIC FORST BREWERY IN MERANO.

I CLIMB THE HILLS IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF BOLZANO, THROUGH TUNNELS AND WOODS, JUST RIGHT BEFORE A RELIEVING DOWNHILL TO LAKE CALDARO! FROM HERE YOU START TO FIND BICIGRILL, IT’S LIKE THE REST AREAS YOU FIND ALONG A HIGHWAY, SO A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN STOP AND REST, EAT AND DRINK SOMETHING AND FIND ASSISTANCE IN CASE OF PROBLEMS WITH YOUR BIKE.

A VERY SHORT AND INTERESTING DETOUR FROM THE BIKE PATH, AT SAN MICHELE ALL'ADIGE, TAKES YOU TO ITALY'S MOST IMPORTANT ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM, A PLACE WHERE TO DISCOVER THE ROOTS OF THE TRENTINO REGION THROUGH AN INTERESTING EXHIBITION OF OBJECTS RELATED TO AGRICULTURE, WORK MACHINERIES, THE MOUNTAINS, RELIGION, MUSIC, EVERYDAY LIFE... IN SHORT: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A CULTURAL BREAK.

AFTER A HUGE PORK HOCK AND A DEEP SLEEP IN TRENTO I’M READY FOR ANOTHER DAY TRAVELLING TOWARDS VERONA AND THE ADRIATIC SEA!

THE VALLEY BETWEEN TRENTO AND VERONA IS KNOWN AS "VALLAGARINA", A LAND OF IMPORTANT VINEYARDS BUT ALSO A LAND OF CASTLES AND FORTRESSES, SUCH AS CASTEL BESENO, THE LARGEST FORTRESS IN TRENTINO, DUE TO ITS STRATEGIC POSITION ACROSS THE CENTURIES THE SITE OF SEVERAL BATTLES, AND THE SABBIONARA CASTLE, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN AND OLDEST FORTIFIED CASTELS IN TRENTINO, FOR YEARS OWNED BY THE CASTELBARCO FAMILY, AND IN 1977 DONATED TO FAI - THE FUND FOR THE ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT - THAT MANAGES IT AND TAKES CARE OF THE VISITS.

THROUGH COUNTLESS VINEYARDS AND SMALL VILLAGES I GET TO THE FINAL PART OF THE VALLEY, IN THE LAND OF THE FORTRESSES, THAT BEARS WITNESS TO THE PAST OF THIS AREA AS THE BORDER BETWEEN ITALY AND THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE. ONE OF THEM IS THE FORTRESS OF RIVOLI IN A SCENIC POSITION RIGHT AT THE END OF THE VALLEY, SAYING GOODBYE TO THE ALPS AND WELCOMING ME TO THE VENETIAN PLAIN!

I GET TO VERONA IN THE EVENING, WHERE ENDS THE FIRST PART OF THIS JOURNEY BY BIKE FROM AUSTRIA TO THE ADRIATIC SEA

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