Trail of Carabinieri - R3

• Departure: Rovolon
• Arrival: Rovolon
• Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Length: 3.8 km
• Involved Municipalities: Rovolon

This route starts at the car park of a former schoolhouse in Rovolon, in front of the restaurant “Da Bepi alle Scuole”. Walk down Via Spinazzola (Spinazzola Street) alongside the restaurant on the right. After about 300 meters of an almost flat path you find a sharp curve to the left.(1)
Immediately afterwards turn right uphill, keeping on Via Spinazzola.

After another 200 meters you can admire Villa Egizia on the right.
After just a few steps, follow the trail markers “R3 - R4” and turn left on to a downhill path immerged in the vegetation that will climb back to Pianoro Spinazzola(Spinazzola Plateau).(2)
The trail will end at “Crosara del Capitello”, on a paved provincial road that leads from Rovolon to Montemerlo.
Then turn right, walking downhill along a paved cycle path.
After about 300 meters, now on the plain, to the right you can see what remains of industrial archeology, now almost completely covered by vegetation: a base of a silo and a wall belonging to the old quarry Italcementi, where fragments were extracted and brought to the cement factory. Just afterwards you can see on the right the house “Casa Gialla” and on the left Frassanelle Golf Club with its green.
Further ahead, always on the left, just below street level, you can see “Fontana delle Grotte” (fountain of the caves) with its stone arch.
About 150 meters ahead, turn right onto Via Rialto. On the left you will see two old limekilns (Forni de Quaiato).
At this point the path gently inclines uphill along Via Rialto. After 400 meters you find “Calto de Marin”, near a lawn fenced with wire mesh.
The path goes up to Colle Mottolo and once you get to the top of the hill you can enjoy an expansive view of Monte Grande. Here the trail gets flat and you will walk among the olive trees and the typical vegetation of the Euganean Hills. You will then get to a crossroad: turning left you will follow the trail R5, in the direction of “Capitello del Monticello”. If instead you walk towards the right, you will find yourself back at Villa Egizia, and the trail loop will end. From there you can go back to the former Rovolon schoolhouse, where you parked the car.