Today we drove the last stage of the Mille Miglia route. As we’ve written earlier, we used the route from 2019. Thankfully, the Mille Miglia team publish the routes on their website after the rallies. Including Google Maps links. Link to 2019 route: https://1000miglia.it/en/events/1000-miglia/1000-miglia-2019/the-route-2019/
The cars starts to look like proper rally cars. We’ve got a couple of showers to wash of some dust. But once we come home, the’ll get some proper cleaning.
We started in a cloudy and grey Reggio Emilia. As good as the Calimoto app is at finding good country roads, as bad it is at navigating cities. We ended up taking alternative routes from the start today. Despite using the same app in both cars.
The first part after getting out of the city took us up some proper mountain roads. As usually in Italy, stunning views but very few places to stop for some photo shots.
The first stop was at Castello di Rossena. The castle was only open after 15:00, so we just took a walk and looked outside.
The next stop was at Labirinto della Masone. The road to get there involved more mountain roads and varying surface conditions.
Labirinto della Masone is an art museum and it also has a huge outdoor labyrinth. Thus the name. We started with lunch, then walked around the museum. To our surprise, they had a Jaguar E-Type as part of the exhibition.
We then went outside to navigate the labyrinth. It’s made up of bambu hedges and it’s huge. You even get a phone number to call in case you get lost. That part felt more like a gimmick though. But it was fun nevertheless.
We cheated a bit and skipped the last part into Brescia. We’ve been navigating the traffic there several times before. In comparison to the real Mille Miglia rally, we don’t have the benefit of police escort and closed roads. So, instead we drove to Sirmione where we will stay for a couple of nights before heading back home.
323 km, 6 hours and 51 minutes drive. But we cut of an hour or so by skipping Brescia.
Tomorrow we’ll take it easy and rest before driving back home.
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