The best road cycling routes around Besana In Brianza

The Church of Saints Gervaso and Protaso is located in Tregasio, a hamlet of the municipality of Triuggio, in the province of Monza and Brianza. It is the main Catholic place of worship in the hamlet and belongs to the Archdiocese of Milan.

Sirtori is a charming hilltop village located in the heart of the upper Lecco Brianza, famous for its historic views, its green paths, and the majestic Church of Saints Nabore and Felice, which dominates the town from its elevated position. The territory offers a perfect blend of sacred architecture, ancient noble residences, and a dense network of hiking and cycling trails.

Sirtori is a charming hilltop village located in the heart of the alta Brianza lecchese, famous for its historic views, its paths immersed in greenery, and the majestic Church of Saints Nabore and Felice, which dominates the settlement from its elevated position. The territory offers a perfect blend of sacred architecture, ancient noble residences, and a dense network of hiking and cycling trails.

The Monticello fountain (located in Monticello Brianza, in the province of Lecco) is one of the most famous and frequented rest and water supply points for cyclists and walkers from all over Brianza and Lombardy.

The complex of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul and the former Benedictine Monastery of Brugora is a Romanesque jewel from the 12th century located in Montesiro, a hamlet of Besana in Brianza (MB). Founded in 1102, it features a stone facade with valuable sculptures and houses a 16th-century Last Supper inside.

The Expiatory Chapel of Monza, an important memorial. It stands on the exact spot where the anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Savoy on July 29, 1900. The monument was strongly desired by the widowed queen Margherita of Savoy and her son, the new king Vittorio Emanuele III. Designed by architect Giuseppe Sacconi (known author of the Vittoriano in Rome) and completed by his pupil Guido Cirilli, it was inaugurated on July 29, 1910. An imposing 35-meter-high stone structure from Oggiono dominates the complex, surmounted by an urn and alabaster crosses. At the base of the stele is the bronze sculptural group of the Pietà, created by the artist Ludovico Pogliaghi. Inside the base, a black marble marker indicates the exact position of the fatal attack.

The Natural History Museum is the oldest civic museum in Milan and is today the center of the activities of the Garden of Science, which includes two large educational laboratories - Paleolab and Biolab - and the Ulrico Hoepli Civic Planetarium. Founded in 1838 with the donation of the naturalistic collections of Giuseppe De Cristoforis and Giorgio Jan, it is the first Italian museum architecture, built between 1892 and 1907 to a design by architect Giovanni Ceruti and inspired by the great European natural history museums of the second half of the nineteenth century.

Porta Venezia, formerly called Porta Orientale (it was renamed in the 18th century, during Austrian rule) was one of the 8 toll barriers, but above all one of the triumphal entrances to Milan. Its toll houses, which separate corso Venezia from corso Buenos Aires, were built in 1828 by Rodolfo Vantini, an architect who won a competition to replace the two previous toll houses, which were considered too humble and remained unfinished. Vantini built two parallelepiped-shaped buildings, open on three sides with porticoes with Doric order columns; to adorn them, he included sculptures by artists. In the corners, he had Carrara marble statues placed. Looking closely, one notices that high up, on all facades, there are bas-reliefs with scenes from Milanese history.