Trips in boat on the Navigli canal

The tour begins on board of the Viscontea, the boat that brings you on the Naviglio Canal with the energy of the sun, sails from the Dassena in Milan (P.za Cantore) actually to Gaggiano and return, for the general duration of 3 hours and half. 

On the banks of this pleasant trip to thread of water, they lean out important works of artistic interest - cultural, among which Churches, villas, farmhouses and they are coasted along long lines of footsteps.

Persino the marble of Candoglia used in the construction of the Duomo Cathedral has arrived to Milan on barge.

The landscape of country is pleasantly interrupted by the presence of small city centers that, with their nucleuses characterized by a quiet to which us Milanese citizens are not accustoment, damage an original note to the run.

The lights, the colors, the sweet rustle of the waters moves us to an universe made of beautiful memoirs, of forgotten atmospheres, of quiet rhythms . 

Silently continuing on the water there is the most famous church of the first line of the Naviglio Grande:it is the church of St. Cristoforo, from where duchesses, king and emperors departed for entering to Milan by water.

The run continues licking up Trezzano on the canal and after ample lines of country there is Gaggiano. 

Entered the picturesque center, authentic once brings on the canal, then called “Navigium de Gazanum”, we appreciate the austere beauty of Villa Marino and the restauration of the many colored façades along the banks of the canal.

The travel on the canal concludes with a last look to the Baroque façade of the church of Sant'Invenzio.