The AIDA cycle route (Alta Italia Da Attraversare, Crossing Northern Italy) is a cycle touring route created by FIAB (website www.aidainbici.it) that crosses northern Italy from the French border in Val di Susa to the Slovenian border in Trieste, going through the largest old towns of the northern Po plain. By combining existing regional routes, AIDA is a thread linking the main towns in northern Italy that offer the richest artistic and cultural heritage, an opportunity for residents' active mobility but also on the bucket list of international cycle tourists, who dream of pedalling from the Egyptian Museum in Turin to Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan, from Verona's Arena to the Serenissima Republic of Venice, from Pasolini's Pordenone lands to the Central European atmospheres of Trieste, the Coffee Capital.

The Venetian section of AIDA, which mostly covers regional cycle path I-1 Garda-Venice, is about 300 km long, and from Lombardy it goes through the historical towns in the central area of the region (Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Venice and Treviso) then crosses into Friuli. This description breaks it up into six stages:

1.      from Peschiera del Garda on the Lombardy border to Verona (33 km);

2.      from Verona to Vicenza (70 km);

3.      from Vicenza to Padua (45 km);

4.      from Padua to Venice (46 km);

5.      from Venice to Treviso (47 km);

6.      from Treviso to Portobuffolè on the Friuli border (54 km).