• Piedmont

• Regional Parks

• Po River Basin - Rivers and Lakes

Parko Bike. Cuneo and Alpi Marittime by Bike

Parko Bike is the new mountain bike rental service offered by Gesso and Stura River Park to promote the use of the bike by residents and visitors. The system, developed together Alpi Martittime Park within the project "Mobilità" (Mobility) of the Transfrontier Integrated Plan (PIT: A) "Spazio Transfrontaliero Marittime-Mercantour" and financed by the Transfrontier Cooperation Program Interreg Alcotra 2007-2013, will consist of nine mountain bike rental points in Cuneo, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Valdieri, and Entracque. Each bike goes with its own helmet, padlock, repair kit, and also seats and carriages for babies are available. The bike rental service is on payment, but it is based on special prices.

The 25 bikes put at disposal by Gesso and Stura River Park and giving the opportunity to carry out easy tours along cycle facilities developing for over 40 km along torrent Gesso and river Stura, are available at:

• Polo canoistico "Le Basse - Non solo acqua", Via Basse Stura 54, Cuneo - Tel. +39 345 6458125 - info@lebasse.it - www.lebasse.it
• Cascina Costantino, Viale Federico Mistral 85, Cuneo - Tel. +39 0171 492837 - info@cascinacostantino.it - www.cascinacostantino.it
• Palestra "Il Punto", Via Boves 4, Borgo San Dalmazzo - Tel. +39 347 7672315 - info@up-punto.com - www.up-punto.com

N.B.: this service is suspended during the winter

 Parko Bike - Brochure

Making a Picnic in the Park

You bring your friends, and we think about the rest: the Park is an ideal place for an outdoor picnic, a few meters from the town center. Recreation areas equipped with tables, benches, and drinkable water are easily accessible on foot or by bike:

• area Basse Stura (at the canoeing center "Le Basse - non solo acqua"), equipped with tables, fountain, wc, and barbecue (2 fire points available), relax area below Santuario degli Angeli, equipped with tables, fountain, and wc. Accessible on foot only
• area at the didactic vegetable garden (near the car park of the town sports facilities, in via Porta Mondovì 7), equipped with tables and fountain
• area of Madonna della Riva, equipped with tables and fountain
• area of Via delle Isole (fraz. Madonna delle Grazie), equipped with tables.

Sport in the Park

Cuneo River Park has several sports facilities giving the opportunity to practice many disciplines, both in summer and winter.

• Indoor and outdoor municipal swimming-pools
  - 2 outdoor swimming-pools m 50x21 and 18x8x0.70
  - 2 indoor swimming-pools m 25x12.50 and 4x12x0.60
  - 1 indoor swimming-pool for diving m 12x12x5
  
  
• Tennis courts
  - 6 outdoor red-earth courts
  - 4 indoor synthetic grass courts
  
  
• Annexed structures
  - 1 beach-volley international field
  - FITNESS terrace
  - Jacuzzi
  - Free-climbing wall
  
  
• Artificial cross-country skiing track and cycle racing
  - Artificial cross-country skiing track. Three cross-country skiing rings
  - Two rings for the protected cycle racing track
  
  
• Artificial roller skating rink
  
  
• Marked trails for country running and marathon

Moreover, in the Park you will find private structures to practice:

• horse riding
• river canoeing along the Stura
• climbing
• beach volley
• archery
• golf
• five-a-side football field

In every season, you will find courses for the practice of outdoor sports (Nordic walking, yoga, aikido, cross-country skiing, etc.).
For further info: www.parcofluvialegessostura.it/vivere/appuntamenti.html

Info: Gestione Impianti Sportivi Cuneo - Via Parco della Gioventi, 2 - 12100 Cuneo - Tel. +39 0171 602132 - www.giscuneo.it
Skating rink and football fields: Info Comune di Cuneo - Sport Office - www.comune.cuneo.it/sport - E-mail: sport@comune.cuneo.it
Polo canoistico "Le Basse - Non solo acqua": Via Basse Stura, 54 - Cuneo - Tel. +39 345 6458125 - info@lebasse.it - www.lebasse.it

For Children...

The Park offers children particular game and learning opportunities.
The equipped trails "… in un battito d'ali", "Parole di legno" (respectively dedicated to lepidopterans and the trees of the Park), Crocetta Nature Reserve, and the Didactic Vegetable Garden give the opportunity to discover and learn while having fun, while the existing sports facilities (swimming-pools, tennis courts, marked trails for country running and marathon, artificial cross-country skiing tracks and roller skating tracks) and the private structures (dedicated to horse riding, river canoeing, climbing, beach volley, five-a-side football, archery, and golf) give the opportunity to practice exercise outdoors.

On the program:

• a Transfrontier Environmental Education Center through which the Park will try to enhance the great biodiversity level of the territory of Alpi Marittime and Mercantour (also including Gesso and Stura River Park), giving the opportunity to discover the ecological importance of the insects pollinators, in particular apoidea and lepidopterans, considered as bioindicators of the environmental quality. The structure, planned and carried out within the project "Educazione" (Education) of the Transfrontier Integrated Plan (PIT: A) "Spazio Transfrontaliero Marittime-Mercantour" and financed by the Transfrontier Cooperation Program Interreg Alcotra 2007-2013, will also acquire an essential role for the implementation of Italian-French transfrontier promotional activities on issues of common interest like biodiversity and climate changes, addressed to various groups (kids, adults, public administrators, economic operators, associations, etc.).

Moreover, specific activities dedicated to schools are held: naturalistic guided tours, tours by bike, didactic trips in the several dedicated areas.

Learning While Having Fun...

The Park is scattered with elements of particular historical and cultural interest like sanctuaries, chapels, mills, villas, jacks, farmsteads.
The Municipality of Cuneo promotes initiatives with play-educational aims for adults and children: tours, parties, workshops, sports events, meetings and exhibits on issues linked to the local river territory.