The best road cycling routes around Cormano

Every year in this country, the fate of the Giro di Lombardia, one of the most famous cycling races in Europe, is decided.

Parco Nord Milano extends for about 600 hectares between the districts of the northern periphery of Milan. Its conception dates back to the late 1960s, but it was only in 1975 that it was recognized by the Lombardy Region as a regional park. Its management is entrusted to a Consortium composed of the six Municipalities around the Park and the Province of Milan. The park is located in one of the most densely urbanized contexts in Europe, characterized by the presence of historic factories (now almost entirely disappeared as a result of de-industrialization) and large housing estates that, over time, have joined the northern periphery of Milan to its hinterland without any urban planning design. Parco Nord Milano currently boasts about 350 hectares of green areas, organized into wooded areas, clearings, rows of trees, shrub patches, hedges, and small bodies of water. Today, the park continues to expand and grow with the working methodology used over all these years, aware of its social, urban, and ecological role. The new reforestation lots, with small saplings of a few tens of centimeters protected by stakes, are the symbol of the growing park, of the investment in the future. But it is the management and maintenance of the green areas that best express the working methodology used: new problems have been met with new, technologically advanced solutions, in order to maintain that standard of quality of the green areas, that care and maintenance, which citizens have become accustomed to seeing, and which make Parco Nord Milano a concrete example of sustainable development for the entire city, similar to what happens in other major European cities. A place of quality, therefore, where technology, creativity, passion, and professional seriousness meet to satisfy the expectations of visitors and respond to the deep needs of the city.

The climb to Castello di Carimate (in the province of Como) is a short but well-known steep section much loved by local cyclists. It measures about 0.9 kilometers with an average gradient of 5.7% and maximum gradients reaching 11.6%, starting from a minimum altitude of 240 meters to reach 289 meters.

very beautiful, a must see!

The Park of Monza is one of the largest historic parks in Europe and the largest walled enclosure, with over 700 hectares of extension. Established in 1805 by Napoleon, it hosts the famous Villa Reale, the Royal Gardens, and the National Autodrome, offering nature, sport, and culture. It is freely accessible every day.

The Monza park is always a spectacle in spring

It is a complex of buildings enclosed by a wall, the historic block of which extends in a U-shape along the east-west axis. Despite neglect and numerous changes in use, which have led to extensive renovations, the interior still retains highly valuable spaces, with stuccoed and frescoed rooms depicting architectural motifs and mythological episodes, vaulted ceilings, generally pavilion-shaped masonry, or false reed vaults, or wooden coffered ceilings.

Maybe it's Women's Day, maybe it's the first day of Almost Spring, but today even on bikes we're going at a walking pace.