The route starts in Cremona and, once you have crossed the river Po, it develops mainly in the territory of Parma and Piacenza. This itinerary includes some bike lanes, some dirt roads and even some minor roads. Following the route you can cross Castelvetro Piacentino and Villanova D’Arda, towards Busseto.
The first stop is Villa Verdi, called in the past Tenuta di Sant’Agata, where the famous musician used to live with Giuseppina Strepponi. It is possible to visit this museum-house and its amazing park.  After few kilometers you can reach Busseto, with its fortress Pallavicino, the Collegiata Church and several palaces with their arcades. In Roncole di Busseto or Roncole Verdi, the birth-place of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, you can find, in the graveyard, the tomb of Giovannino Guareschi. Towards Soragna, you pass next to the “Corte degli Angeli”, set of the movie ‘Novecento’ by Bernardo Bertolucci.
In Soragna there are some interesting places, like the fortress Meli Lupi, the Jewish Museum, the Folk Culture Museum and the Parmigiano-Reggiano Museum. Going along the route you arrive to San Secondo, a little and very ancient rural village. Here you can admire the Fortress, wanted by Pier Maria Rossi more or less in the middle of the 15th Century and then transformed, during the 16th Century, in a monumental noble house. Few kilometers from the village there is the country-church San Genesio, the most ancient Romanic monument of the Southern Parma area, already documented in 1016.
In Sissa Trecasali (Roman origin) it is worth a visit the Santa Maria Assunta Church and the Terzi Fortress (Middle Ages). Roccabianca derives its name from Bianca Pellegrini who, in the middle of the 15th Century, received from the nobleman Pier Maria Rossi a special gift, the fortress which is still today at the center of the village. The market square (horseshoe shape) and the Santi Bartolomeo e Michele Church are very interesting.
In Zibello, which is the last part of our route, you can admire the late-Gothic Santi Gervasio e Protasio church and the Beata Vergine delle Grazie Church. We also recommend a visit to the Folk Culture Museum “Giuseppe Riccardi” (with its seat in the Dominican Monastery), to the Palazzo Vecchio (in Gothic style) and to the 19th Century Pallavicino Theatre.
With the variant 7a you can go back to Cremona, using the S. Daniele Po bridge and the route 4.