The Ente Park with the collaboration of Service Forestal Regional occupy the garden path restoration that they across the territory of Euganei Hills and the finishing touches and the order of tracing with notices indicators of break areas.

  • Atestino’s garden path is overtowered by hamlet of Arquà Petrarca, with beautiful landscapes and enjoyable alternation of environments, from meadows to woods with chestnut-tree. The landscape of Euganei Hills change turn after turn thanks to the climate, the vegetations and the cultivation. The itinerary is emphasized with signpost white-red with the number 3, the time of the walking is about 7-8 hours but is possible walk the garden path in more days .
  • Monte Venda “G.G. Lorenzoni” ’s garden path is along the the versant of  the raise Euganei. In the north versant you can find a rich and a bouncy underwood where there are plants like: dogtooth violet, ramson and violet,scilla silvestre, cows-and-calves,anemone fegatella, lungwort, Solomon’s seal and epimedio alpini.  Moreover in spring and in autumn expecially on the rain’s day, it is possible meet the orbettino (a lizard without tail) and the yellow salamander.
  • Monte Lozzo’s garden path is in Lozzo Atestino, it is characterized by a beautiful panoramic view and  then to  continue to a small path where you can find huge pits gouce out in the trachyte used for supervise better the Monte (mountain) Lozzo. The path, which go across the north of the mountain, is covered by a beautiful vegetation. Moreover,when exceed the big chestnut-tree and the view on the Berici Hills, we can admire oaks and  yoke-elm with an underwood formed by butcher’s broom and nubs.
  • Monte Ricco and Monte Castello’s garden path is in Monselice,  is constituted by an itinerary of 5 km, without difficulties of haul, because is poor of characteristic of big declivity. In direction of Monte Castello we can reach in a pull-in (square) where it is present a path embranchment and on the left we can acces in a panoramic glimpse situated on the top of an enclosed pit , where there are some foxholes scraps used in the Second World War.
  • Monte Calbarina and Monte Piccolo’s garden path is easily to reach in Arquà Petrarca, Monselice or Padua. You can’t not see: robin, amolari, bush maple and some typical Giuda’s tree. The south of Monte Calbarina is  characterized by elderberry’s plants,bagolari, red ligustro flowers and pomegranate.
  • Monte Cecilia’s garden path is in Baone in the south of Euganei Hills. Along the itinerary we can find typical cipollari exfoliation, an alteration’s phenomenon that is inside the homogeneous stones.
  • Monte Venda’s garden path, is the tallest (highest) vertex in the Euganei Hills and is also a mountain which have botanic, cultural and historical presence which together Vendevolo constitute the biggest volcanic apparatus in the area.
  • Monte Gallo, Monte delle Grotte and Monte delle Basse’s garden path, proceed for a large line on descent, between the robina’s bush and elderberry with an underwood characterized of butcher’s broom. In summer and autumn we hear the  pungent odor (smell) of a particular mushroom, the “Phallus Impudicus” or “uovo del diavolo”; in this area there is a wood which we can find the Eremo of Monte Rua, the old church in Galzignano Terme, Valsanzibio and the piana of Monselice.
  • Monte Cinto’s garden path start in 100 meters in the square of Museum Cava Bomba in Cinto Eugano, and then climb up to the south versant on Monte Cinto. Near a vineyard we can walk through a robina’s bush and go in a forestal track where we can find : roverella, orniello, erica arborea, butcher’s broom and selvatic sparrow grass.
  • Monte Fasolo’s garden path is in Cinto Euganeo, start with a level line where we go in a carpini, frassini,roverella,selvatic bush sparrow grass. The wood become always more dense, on the garden path’s sides is possible see the epimedio alpino, an herbaceous plant considered the relict glacialic in the Eguanei Hills.
  • Monte Grande’s garden path is in Teolo, it was undeleted by Regional Forestal Service and the fundings of Ente Parco. Inside the mountain we can find 4200 meters of easy route. The first line of the itinerary is characterized by a chestnut grove formed by volcanic substratum where there are rovere,acero montano, carpino black and white. The come one after the other of fireblight provocated an impoverishment of the wood. In the path we can find plants of: roverella, orniello dominanti, eric arborea,corbezzolo and an underwood rich of cistus. In the stone cave which characterize the north versant, there are present fantastic lava’s  crystallization, formed when magma was cooled. In the last part of the garden’s path we find an enormous glade in Lieta Carraresi Park; not much distant there is the passo “Baita Fiorine”.
  • Ferro di Cavallo’s garden path is situated in Battaglia Terme. The beginning of the itinerary is at Fluvial Navugation Museum, dedicated of the ancient activities “barcari”. The appellative “Ferro di Cavallo” is devoir of the characteristic form of hilly dorsal; thanks these stones, the scholar have remold the geological history of Euganei Hills.
  • Monte Rosso’s garden path is in Abano Terme, it is insulated respect the conformation of Euganei Hills. The changes in the geological era have determined the cone form formed by akaline trachyte and quaternary deposits; in these years a peatmoss (soil depression) have discovered some beef’s ruins with short horns of this period. Before the itinerary we have to remark the Bembiana Villa with its monumental park, where we can find city walls   in the rural residence among plane tree and yoke-elms. The wood is composed by a lot of specimens of robina in different age, this signify that the man dedicated in a massive manner about the cultivation of this species. The meadows, abandoned for years, have received the invasion of robina to the detriment of oak, hornbeam and orniello.
  • Monte della Madonna’s garden path is situated in Teolo near Rovolon’s church. Along the path we can see two level areas with black drit, dedicate of the timber’s transformation on coal and thanks to this ancient asset, the locale is called Carbonara. The wood is characterized of: chestnut tree, robine, roverella, orniello,arbutus, butcher’s broom, sparrow grass, cisto with sage green leaf, erica arborea and terebinth. In the area reserved by hang-glidig, we can assist a lovely view which include the Eugnei Hills, Vicentine Prealps and Lessini Mountain.
  • Monte Cerva’s garden path is situated between Battaglia and Montegrotto Terme, in the oriental valley; appear like a semicircular amphitheatre of hills , which its heights don’t exceed 255 m. height. The path is recognized like a Special Protetion Area and is integrated among Sites of Common Importance and includeover 1200 species of plants like Cheilanthes marantae e la Scrophularia vernalis and some rarest like Anogramma leptophylla and Asplenium septentrionale.
  • Monte Rusta and Gemola’s garden path is situated in the heart of Euganei Hills. Monte Rusta with its chronic form, is particularly attributed of the origin of Euganei, and is one of the rarest raise remain nearly in savage state. Monte Gemola presents a declivity not much rugged characterized by the present of vineyard. Its height is sweet and level and has as a protagonist “Villa Beatrice d’Este”, which name derive of the noblewoman nun and benedectine Beatrice I d’Este, which she lived in the residence from 1221 to 1226.

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