We continue along Via San Dionigi for 200 m, alongside the cycle path, until we reach a roundabout where we take the first road on the right. We continue for 300 m and arrive at the entrance to the Vettabbia Park. We continued for approximately 1 km, passed the Cascina San Bernardo, and, continuing on the right, after just under 100 m, we turned left. Once we reach the end of the path, the road splits in two. We continue to the left and then turn right after about 150 m to find ourselves in a few steps on via Sant’Arialdo, where we continue to the right until the Chiaravalle Abbey.
We continue along the main road: we must be careful because the stretch to be covered has no sidewalk. Immediately after the cemetery the sidewalk starts again on the right and we continue for another 200 m: here the road turns left and takes a cycle/pedestrian path. The cycle path runs alongside the municipal road on one side and some fields on the right; at the first crossroads we turn left towards the sports centre, running alongside some houses on the right and the fields on the left again.
We continue straight to go up the bridge that crosses the new railway: the entire stretch is safe thanks to the presence of a path dedicated to pedestrians and bicycles. Once off the bridge we find a roundabout: we cross it and continue straight on the cycle/pedestrian path that runs alongside the main road for about 800 m. At the next roundabout we continue straight taking the first exit, staying on the cycle/pedestrian path. After about 300 m we take a small road on the right: we thus enter Borgo Bagnolo. We continue on the cycle path leaving Bagnolo and after 650 m at the intersection we take Via Lama on the left (be careful, the crossing is a little further ahead), we go up the sidewalk and go down the underpass keeping to the right side, then continue straight. At the T-junction, at the end of the sidewalk, we cross the road, continue right on Via Buozzi and at the roundabout we continue to follow the sidewalk to the left until we find the pedestrian crossing; we cross and take Via Parri on the right for 300 m, along the town center of San Donato Milanese, then after the parking lot we turn right into Largo Giuseppe Impastato.
After 120 m we find a path on the left in the middle of a park, which we take (if the park is closed, from the parking lot we can continue straight under the arcades of Via Giuseppe di Vittorio for about 1 km until the end of the road, where we find a cycle path that we follow on the right reconnecting after just over 100 m to the path).
We continue for about 900 m, until we come across a newly built cycle path, and we follow it to the right for 280 m, now immersed in the countryside again; we cross a small bridge and proceed to the right for another 250 m until we come across via Brunelleschi, the beginning of the town of Civesio, which we follow to the right for 200 m (it then becomes Via don Minzoni) until the church, passing a sports field and some houses; once we reach the churchyard, we turn left, walking for about 100 m in the beautiful park on the right side of the road, then we cross on the pedestrian crossing and proceed straight on via Civesio, which we also follow when it becomes Via Marignano; on the right we find a small chapel dedicated to the Madonna among the apartment buildings. Unfortunately at a certain point the pavement ends and it will be necessary to proceed straight on walking on the edge of the asphalt road lined with trees, among cultivated fields for about 1 km.

Once you have finished the tree-lined area, you can see the Viboldone Abbey on the left: continue for about 400 m, then turn left into Via Folli and continue straight until you find the entrance to the abbey on the left, which is worth a visit (for guided tours: “Associazione Amici dell’abbazia di Viboldone” , www.amicidiviboldone.it). Once you have left the abbey, turn left and then left again into a pleasant tree-lined avenue closed to traffic; from here, you follow a long stretch of the Sentiero dei Giganti: a charming cycle/pedestrian path that crosses part of the Parco Agricolo Sud Milano, rich in history and nature, which will take you to Melegnano.
At the end of the avenue, you pass under the railway and continue straight on the cycle path for 170 m until you cross the underpass of the San Giuliano Milanese station. Once on the other side, we cross the parking lot road and immediately cross the main road on the pedestrian crossing to the left of the roundabout. Once on the other side of the main road, we head right and, after 60 m, at a small parking lot, we take the first road on the left, Via Gramsci. After 50 m, we turn right into Via Matteotti and, at the end of the road, we continue straight on, entering the park of the “Oasi del Monastero della Vittoria”, which recently became part of the WWF oasis network with the aim of transforming it into a centre for the development of native flora and fauna in the surrounding area. We cross the park following the path in the middle and come out onto the road again at the cemetery, which we follow on the left, on the cycle/pedestrian path, for about 150 m; at this point we cross the road and enter another park, still following the cycle path: this is the “Oasi Bosco di Zivido”, another urban oasis of the WWF, in which trees typical of the Po Valley have been planted, with a curtain of hornbeams to mitigate the effects of traffic; inside the park there is also a pond. The cycle path ends in a parking lot, where we turn left towards the exit. We come out onto Via Gorky and take it on the right, cross at the first pedestrian crossing and after 200 m turn left onto Via Bixio, which we follow until the next intersection. We turn right onto Via dei Mille and, after another 150 m, left onto Via Rosselli, which we follow for about 200 m until the T-junction with Via Tolstoj.
We follow Via Tolstoj on the right to cross on the pedestrian crossing, then we go back and enter on the right into the Cascinetta local road and into the “Parco Agricolo Sud Milano”; we continue along the dirt road and at the first fork we keep right. We follow the road that goes deeper and deeper into the fields; a stone’s throw from us is the Lambro river. We walk on the main route and when we reach the Cascina Carlotta crossroads we continue on the left; we continue for 1.3 km, then we turn right following the signs for Cascina Santa Brera; when we reach the entrance of the farmhouse we continue left on the road without a sidewalk.
After about 100 m, at the crossroads we first turn left then immediately right, and continue straight for 600 m: the landscape is still bucolic and it is difficult to think of the urbanization that extends a few steps away from us. At the end of the road we turn left and soon we come across the entrance to Rocca Brivio, a fascinating fortified complex now used for events. We turn left, walking to the side of the building, slightly downhill, and continue following the path again in the middle of the fields for about 1 km, also passing under the highway. We pass the entrance to Cascina Cappuccina, turn right and cross the bridge over the Vettabbia canal, skirting the “Bosco di Montorfano”, an area designated for naturalistic recovery created in the nineties of the last century. In a few meters we suddenly emerge at the gates of the town of Melegnano, we continue straight on the cycle/pedestrian path in front of us, skirting the apartment buildings on one side and a public park on the other. At the end of the park we turn left into Via Vincenzo Monti, then we cross the supermarket parking lot on the left and emerge onto Via Emilia: here we turn right onto the cycle/pedestrian path and after about 50 m at the traffic lights we cross the road and enter Via Dante Alighieri. On our left we find the parish of Santa Maria del Carmine (14th century), adjacent to which we find a convent founded by the Carmelite friars. We continue straight until the first intersection, where we cross taking Via Edmondo de Amicis on the right. After 100 m, at the intersection, we cross and on our left we find Via Guglielmo Marconi, which we follow for 200 m and then turn left into Via Roma, where we find a car park on our right. We continue for another 200 m and finally turn right into Via Conciliazione to reach the castle of Melegnano, the final point of this stage.