Padua Trip Overview
Discover the Villas, Castles and most beautiful corners of the Euganean Hills.
An easy bike ride along the Euganean Hills Bike Route (E2) to discover the most important monuments of the Euganean Hills: Castle Catajo, the town of Battaglia Terme and the Garden of Valsanzibio.
Itinerary: completely flat.
Length: 35 km in 4 hours.
Difficulty: easy.
Departure/return: Abano Terme.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 6 hours
Starts: Padua, Italy
Trip Category: Walking & Biking Tours >> Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
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Discover the Villas, Castles and most beautiful corners of the Euganean Hills.
An easy bike ride along the Euganean Hills Bike Route (E2) to discover the most important monuments of the Euganean Hills: Castle Catajo, the town of Battaglia Terme and the Garden of Valsanzibio.
Itinerary: completely flat.
Length: 35 km in 4 hours.
Difficulty: easy.
Departure/return: Abano Terme.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Terme Euganee di Abano e Montegrotto, Via Castello 5, 35036 Montegrotto Terme Italy
The Euganean Spas of Abano Montegrotto are one of the most famous spa destination in the world. Our tour will start from here. If you do not stay in one of the hotels in Abano and Montegrotto you can: – choose the pick up in your Hotel / b&b / Apartment in Padua – reach Montegrotto Terme by train. The train station “Terme Euganee Abano-Montegrotto” is located in Montegrotto Terme (near Euganean Hills), and is connected with Padua (in 10 minutes) Venice (in 45 minutes) Verona (in 1.5 hours) Treviso (1 hour) and Bologna (1.5 hours) by train
Pass By: Villa Draghi, Montegrotto Terme, Italy, Parco Villa Draghi, Montegrotto Terme Italy
Along with its neo-Gothic style and the great romantic park, it represents the ultimate testimony to the civilization of the Venetian villa
Villa Draghi stands isolated on the slopes of Mount Alto, on top of a hillock to the west of the town of Montegrotto . The structure as it appears today, is an elegant building constructed between 1848 and 1850 by Pietro Scapin.
Pass By: Castello del Catajo, Via Cataio 1, 35041 Battaglia Terme Italy
Castello del Catajo is a patrician rural palace near the town of Battaglia Terme, province of Padua, north-eastern Italy built in 1573. It had its origins in a simple villa that was rebuilt and extravagantly enlarged in the manner of a feudal castle from 1570 onwards by Marquess Pio Enea I degli Obizzi, a member of an Italian noble family of French origin. The house contains a vast cycle of historical battle scenes frescoed in 1571–1572 by Giambattista Zelotti, a pupil of Paolo Veronese.
Pass By: Borgo Fluviale di Battaglia Terme, Battaglia Terme Italy
Battaglia lies at the easternmost edge of the volcanic Euganean Hills, and has been noted for its warm saline springs and natural vapour grotto since the Middle Ages. The construction of the navigable Battaglia canal in the early 13th century brought traffic and growth to the town which commanded a central position at the confluence of several canals in the network of barge traffic that linked Este and Padua, the Adriatic, the Lagoon of Venice and the north by means of the Brenta Canal, the canalized Bacchiglione and the Adige.
Pass By: Garden of Villa Barbarigo, Via Diana 2, 35030 Valsanzibio, Galzignano Terme Italy
Known as one of the most beautiful garden of Italy, the Garden of Valsanzibio is famous now all over the world.The Garden is located in Galzignano Terme, a little town in the heart of Euganean Hills. This area, since the beginning of the XIVth century, was preferred by the Venetian Nobility as perfect location for their wonderful Ville Venete: it was a symbol of the economic power and, at the same time, oasis of peace and tranquilly.
Pass By: Il Laghetto della Costa – Sito Unesco, Via Costa, Arqua Petrarca Italy
One of the most important naturalistic-archaeological sites of the Euganean Hills, from which the famous thermal muds of Abano and Montegrotto are still taken today
Pass By: Giardino di Villa Emo, Via Rivella 4f, 35043 Monselice Italy
As the last stop, a visit to Villa Emo awaits us, an elegant Baroque residence from the 1600s designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi and immersed in a park of over 110,000 square meters, with flowers and centuries-old plants.
