San Lazzaro di Savena

1000 Miglia in te city of Canè 

The 1000 Miglia will arrive in San Lazzaro di Savena in Piazza Bracci, passing through the Parco dei Gessi Bolognesi e Calanchi dell’Abbadessa, a protected natural area recently included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, along the stunning and lush green Val di Zena.

The best calling card for a town that, despite being on the outskirts of Bologna and crossed by the Via Emilia, just a stone’s throw from the ring road and the motorway, takes pride in an extraordinary natural and environmental heritage.

The park is part of the UNESCO Heritage, especially for the important karst system that characterises it and makes it a uniquely European environment.

The natural park, the Savena, Idice and Zena watercourses, which are important biological corridors, and a vast and well-kept heritage of urban greenery make it a true garden right next to Bologna.

As a matter of fact, San Lazzaro di Savena borders the main town, whose centre can be easily reached thanks to a punctual and efficient public transport system – by bus and train.

Chosen in the past by aristocrats from Bologna to spend the summer there, several marvellous villas bear witness to this, the best known of which is Villa Cicogna attributed to Jacopo Barozzi known as il Vignola. San Lazzaro boasts some illustrious citizens such as Alberto Tomba, Cesare Cremonini, Gianni Morandi, Cristina D’Avena and the writer Loriano Macchiavelli.

Not forgetting San Lazzaro residents Giuliano Canè and his wife Lucia Galliani, who have won no less than 10 editions of the Mille Miglia!

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