Cyclists on the banks of the Po in Turin Photograph: Toni Spagone /AlamyThe Palladian Villa Morosini Mantovani in Rovigo Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRThe waterworks at Sermide Moglia in Mantova.Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRCascina near Suzzara, in Mantova: there are plenty of beautiful rural buildings along the route of the proposed pathPhotograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRCyclists on the bank of the Po between Guastalla and Luzzara in the province of Reggio Emilia. Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRThe picturesque church of Santa Maria dell'Argine, near Casalmaggiore in Cremona.Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRCyclists and horseriders in Santo Stefano, Lodi. Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRA view of the Ticino river in Pavia, the covered bridge, or Ponte Vecchio.Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PRAn abandoned farmhouse in the countryside of Ferrara in Bondeno.Photograph: Diana Giudici /PRA cyclist crossing the landscape of Frassinetto Po in Alexandria.Photograph: Alessandro Giacomel/PR