It's a terrace of Italy. It's a garden of Europe. And it's the realm of chamois, on four legs and two wheels. Monte Baldo is still among the protagonists of the 2025 Giro d'Italia: Tuesday, May 27, the sixteenth stage, starting from Piazzola sul Brenta, finishing at San Valentino di Brentonico Pass, at 1390 meters altitude, a total of 199 kilometers, 4900 meters of elevation gain (including Bondone) and the finish line on the climb with - the rocky peak, windy ridges, wooded bands - Baldo dominating the scene and obscuring the horizon.

Remo Mosna dedicates a photographic exhibition to Monte Baldo: about sixty shots, in black and white and color, to celebrate the cycling vocation of what has become a playground, an amusement park, a challenge park for those who seek and find themselves on a bicycle. Mosna documents three editions of the Giro del Trentino and three of the Giro d'Italia. Here, in particular, those of the victories of Eddy Merckx in 1973, Evgenij Berzin and Tony Rominger in 1995, Vincenzo Nibali (in time trial) in 2013. Twists in time and space. The exhibition is held at Palazzo Eccheli Baisi in Brentonico and is open until the end of June, admission is free.

Giro photographers have the gift of ubiquity. They hop at the start, pop out of a poppy field, emerge behind a school or in front of a church, position themselves on hairpin turns and walls, accompany by motorcycle, wait at the finish, aim and click rapidly here, then process in the press room, translating sweat into close-ups, sublimating escapes into landscapes, sculpting sprints in millimeters. Mosna is recognizable for his modesty and passion, and for a beautiful white hairstyle. From Aldeno near Bondone (the first Giro in Aldeno - he reminded me - with Merckx in the pink jersey on a forest dirt road), Mosna doesn't hide his regional attachments. So much so that in the exhibition there are "his" riders, from Moser to Simoni through Bertolini, knowing that there will always be someone who will reproach him more for absences than presences, as if his exhibitions should be encyclopedic and not moments stretched - if only it were possible - towards eternity.

Monte Baldo, understood as the San Valentino di Brentonico Pass, has two classic sides. The longest is from Avio: 21.1 kilometers in length, 1474 meters of elevation gain, 7 percent average gradient. The toughest is from Mori: 17.6 kilometers in length, 1186 meters of elevation gain, 10 percent average gradient. If desired, there are also other routes. The easiest is, obviously, the one from Malcesine: by cable car. What makes the difference are the riders. But also the photographers. And Mosna, white hair blowing in the wind as if it were snowing, teaches.