Milan will soon be connected to Italy's VenTo bicycle trail.

Milan’s city bike lanes will shortly connect directly to VenTo, the 679-km bicycle trail joining Venice to Turin, when the section Milan-Pavia is completed.

The cyclist’s dream route will exit the city alongside the Naviglio Pavese canal. Three of the eight kilometres of the new stretch within Milan have already been completed, and are now a pedestrian-only zone. Once the other five kilometres are built, cyclists will be able to ride directly from Milan via Pavia to either Turin or Venice, in the latter case passing through Piacenza, Cremona and Ferrara.

The VenTo dedicated bike trail, the longest in Italy, cuts east-west across the Po plain through spectacular countryside and almost entirely without sharing the road with motor traffic. A spur northwards from Pavia is already in use, and the new stretch to be completed will connect VenTo to Milan’s city cycle lane network.

Milan’s Alzaia, the former towpath along the banks of the Naviglio, will become a one-way road open only to residents and public transport, with the bike lane well separated from the starkly reduced traffic.