Parco delle Cave Loop

Welcome to Parco delle Cave: a strange, fascinating landscape that tells a story of extraction, open wounds – and then healing. This route takes you on a wide loop among former pits, bodies of water and greenery in transformation.

You pass through Buffalora, touch neighbourhood parks (Avis, Don Milani), skirt the hamlet of Bettole and its gardens, then head towards the quarry lakes: Bose, Gerolotto, Canneto and, with a short detour, Fuserino as well. Places that until a few years ago seemed forgotten. Now they are the blue-green heart of a new idea of city.
Not all of the route is “perfect” yet: in some sections access still needs improvement and water levels can change the path. But that’s precisely the point: this is living nature, shifting, surprising. A different kind of experience, outside the usual patterns, deep in the real land of Brescia.

MUM – Metro Urban Museum & Stones Venue. Where the landscape becomes art – and memory.
Just beyond the Sanpolino murals on Route 7, urban art has taken over the metro depot too: with 600 m² of painted walls and several trains turned into artworks, the MUM is Italy’s first open-air (and on-the-tracks) museum.
A little further on, inside Parco delle Cave, another special space opens up: Stones Venue, a public stone pavilion designed for Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. A powerful, silent structure built with monolithic blocks of nine different stones, created to tell – in marble and steel – the deep bond between Brescia, Bergamo and their quarrying history.
Between street art and ancient stone, the landscape is transformed here – and it speaks.

Useful information:

Metro Urban Museum is open to the public, by reservation by writing to comunicazione@bresciamobilita.it

Visits are organized for groups of minimum 15 – maximum 40 people.

Visit duration approximately 45 minutes.

Dragonflies in flight, bees at work.
Walking around Lake Canneto, get ready for a tiny but powerful spectacle: dragonflies darting like coloured arrows and, just beyond, a busy, thriving apiary looked after by the ApiBrescia association.
Pause for a moment. Breathe. Let yourself be surrounded by the hum of Apis mellifera: the ancient, precise, tireless sound of the pollinating insect.
Here, nature is not putting on a show. It’s working. And inviting you to take a closer look.

The route starts from the Sant'Eufemia – Buffalora metro terminus and ends near the Sanpolino metro station, following the Parco delle Cave ring road. There are no other metro stops along the way, but the area is also served by bus line 9, useful for reaching the starting point or returning at the end of the walk.