From Vittoria metro station to Sant'Eufemia-Buffalora terminus

You start from Piazza Vittoria and cross the historic city towards the new urban areas. But don’t be fooled: this is an urban crossing full of stories and unexpected parks.

Inside the Santa Giulia Museum, next to the domus, there is a secret garden, the viridarium: it tells ancient stories and myths and reminds you that the Romans were already speaking about beauty and care. You brush past the Venetian walls, pass the Ducos Parks, discover the Rebuffone garden and arrive in Sanpolino, one of Brescia’s newest and greenest neighbourhoods, in a constant shift of scenery.

Meanwhile, Mount Maddalena is always there on the horizon, like a promise. The route crosses four trails (902, 903, 904, 905) that climb up towards the city’s home mountain. It’s a journey of transition: between centre and outskirts, between past and future, always with something to discover.

Here every step is a short circuit between past and future. And Brescia keeps surprising you. Always.

Piazza Vittoria. Geometric, rational, imposing. It looks like it has stepped straight out of a 1930s film, but underneath it hides a surprise: Mind the Gap by Nathalie Du Pasquier. Psychedelic ceramics that turn the metro into a pop gallery. You go down to catch a train and come back up wearing an installation.

Piazza della Loggia. Here, elegance is law. Renaissance beauty in overdose, embracing porticoes and an astronomical clock that marks time like lines of poetry. A place where even silence has a historic echo.

Via dei Musei – UNESCO Corridor. Just one kilometre, two and a half thousand years of history. Among Roman stones, Lombard cloisters, Renaissance art and contemporary sculpture, this walk links the Capitolium to the Santa Giulia Museum. All accessible, all open and free. A world heritage site that speaks to everyone and presents Brescia as a truly European city.

Piazza Paolo VI. Three heavyweights facing each other. The Broletto – ancient power in living stone. The Duomo Nuovo – a Baroque symphony in marble. The Duomo Vecchio – severe, round, mysterious. And behind them, the Queriniana. Not just a library. A temple. Of paper, silence and stories.

Mille Miglia Museum. If you feel like going further, push on to Sant’Eufemia and beyond. The Mille Miglia Museum is not just a museum: it’s an emotional circuit. Engines, bends, glory. A place where even those who don’t love cars fall in love with a race that made history.

Bald cypresses, ponds and a fairytale autumn.
At the heart of Ducos Park, 84 majestic bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) rise up beside the ponds, creating an almost unreal scene.
Native to the swampy regions of the south-eastern United States, these trees breathe through their “pneumatophores”, woody cones that emerge from the water.
But the real show comes in autumn: the leaves turn red, orange and gold. A living postcard.

We start from the Vittoria metro station, we arrive at the Sant'Eufemia– Buffalora metro terminus. Along the way you can also intercept the Sanpolino metro station. Useful bus lines: 3, 11, 12.