Mille-Miglia pilgrimage - Anyone done it?
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Thinking of a 4/5 day trip to Italy to drive the MM in a rental Fiat 500? Try to get Pescara/Imola/Monza/Museums around Modena in as well, and maybe a Serie A game?
Search on PH is still down, someone must have done it. Any tips/advice/write-ups to read?
Is it possible to sit down with a TomTom for 2 hours and meticulously plan the route so you stay on the course as best as possible?
Search on PH is still down, someone must have done it. Any tips/advice/write-ups to read?
Is it possible to sit down with a TomTom for 2 hours and meticulously plan the route so you stay on the course as best as possible?
There's a museum in Brescia http://www.museomillemiglia.it/defaulten.aspx also (not related, in the town) a fascinating looking Motorsport bookshop.
My mate and I did a trip round the Mille Miglia route last May. We drove across France, Switzerland, Austria (across as many high alpines passes as we could, often in snow), then down into Italy in time to arrive at Brescia when the 'race' cars were due back. We went to the museum, small but very interesting, then watched all the cars arrive back.
Then we drove round one of the routes and went via Padova, Rimini, Ancona (stayed near Pescara), Popoli, L'Aquila, Viterbo,(we left out Rome as we'd both been there several times before), Lake Bolsena, Tuscany and stayed at Siena. Then on via San Gimignano, Florence, the Futa & Raticosa Passes, Bologna, Mantova and onto Cremona for the night.
Finally across the Alps, France and back to the UK - 4,000 great miles.
Then we drove round one of the routes and went via Padova, Rimini, Ancona (stayed near Pescara), Popoli, L'Aquila, Viterbo,(we left out Rome as we'd both been there several times before), Lake Bolsena, Tuscany and stayed at Siena. Then on via San Gimignano, Florence, the Futa & Raticosa Passes, Bologna, Mantova and onto Cremona for the night.
Finally across the Alps, France and back to the UK - 4,000 great miles.
In july 2008 we drove our TVR down to tuscany via classic le mans, millau viaduct , cannes , monaco pisa,
we stayed in a little tuscan village high on a hill, whilst there we discovered the race came through the village,so we planned to return to see the race.
so in 2010 we flew into pisa , hired a car and spent 7 days in tuscany,
on the saturday morning , we awoke at 8am , opened the shutters on the bedroom windows, and in the valley below you could here the ferraris in the distance, i think there were a 100 of them preceeding the mille miglia,
so i left swmbo to shower and i went outside to see the cars come through the village.
second or third car through was chris evans in his 250 california spider ....awesome car ,
there was a timecheck in the village so everyone stopped at the checkpoint.
in all i think it took over 4 hours for all the cars to come through !
next time i think we will follow some more of the route.
we stayed in a little tuscan village high on a hill, whilst there we discovered the race came through the village,so we planned to return to see the race.
so in 2010 we flew into pisa , hired a car and spent 7 days in tuscany,
on the saturday morning , we awoke at 8am , opened the shutters on the bedroom windows, and in the valley below you could here the ferraris in the distance, i think there were a 100 of them preceeding the mille miglia,
so i left swmbo to shower and i went outside to see the cars come through the village.
second or third car through was chris evans in his 250 california spider ....awesome car ,
there was a timecheck in the village so everyone stopped at the checkpoint.
in all i think it took over 4 hours for all the cars to come through !
next time i think we will follow some more of the route.
We called in at the museum and Brescia last year. It was s tinking hot day so it was lovely to get into the air conditioning. The museum was very good, and we were the only people there so had the place to ourselves.
Close to Modena too, for visits to other car factories and museums.
Well worth a visit.
Close to Modena too, for visits to other car factories and museums.
Well worth a visit.
We did the '55 route about 6 years ago in a hire car. We started in Rome and went up to Brescia via Siena and Florence then back down the Adriatic and across the Abruzzi mountains back to Rome. We booked hotels in Rome (and in Venice) but other than that we relied on simply turning up with a bag and a credit card. It was a great trip and the hotels which we simply arrived at (rather than booked) seemed in general to be better value than the ones we pre-booked
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