Valdadige Cycling Routes: Key Pending Segments for Tourism Growth

For Valdadige, cycling routes could represent an important opportunity from a tourist perspective, and therefore it is necessary to complete the still pending segments.

Last Wednesday, a meeting was held in Asco-Unione between Marco Passigato, president of the Associazione Amici della Bicicletta, and Pier Alberto Possati, a tourism marketing consultant for the association, to focus on issues related to the status of some sections of the bike paths that affect the area and hold significant value both locally and internationally.

Segments still to be completed and important connections

Specifically, attention was focused on two routes still to be finished, concerning the section from the border of Trento Province to Rivoli (20 km along the Biffis canal embankment) and from Rivoli, towards Bardolino, up to Peschiera (another 23 km).

This missing 43 km within the provincial territory causes the European cycling route called Europista n. 7, which is supposed to run from Nordkapp passing through Copenhagen, the German territory, the Czech Republic, and Austria, to be interrupted only in the Veronese area. As a result, the route Prague–Salisburg–Verona–Florence–Siena–Rome–Naples has this sole bottleneck; in fact, the Austrian, Bolzano, and Trento sections are practically already completed.

“If we manage to activate these 43 km,” — emphasize the actors of the meeting — “we will connect with the Peschiera-Mantova bike path, inaugurated last May 6, with enormous advantages from a tourism perspective.”

Commitment and development of cycling tourism

“Asco-Unione — the association emphasizes — is very attentive to this issue, as it could develop tourism connected also to art, food and wine, with overnight stays in hotels and campsites in the hinterland and on Lake Garda.”

We will now try to involve the provincial public works councilor Gilberto Pozzani so that he takes immediate action on this matter.”