With our exclusive tour packages for the Mille Miglia 2025, you secure the chance to drive side-by-side with the official participants - but without the complex and expensive registration procedure or blistering challenge. Find out all the relevant information about the 2025 edition of the 1000 Miglia, make it easy for yourself and experience the fascination and thrill of this legendary rally up-close in June.
Every year, the Mille Miglia attracts millions of classic car enthusiasts from all over the world. Most of them just watch. Others take part and drive. Perhaps this is also one of your most unique dreams too? However, apart from the immense costs, applying and being allowed to actually take part officially are two very different things.
And that's what makes the tour with Nostalgic so appealing: the guarantee of a ride. Among the official participants, you get behind the wheel of legendary classics from our fleet - Mercedes Benz SL or Alfa Romeo Spider - and experience the breathtaking places and landscapes and the fascinating flair of this rally just like everyone else. Curious? Then read on.
Mille Miglia 2025 will take place from 17 to 21 June - and so will our tours. With Nostalgic, you have the opportunity to experience the race and event in one of three exclusive driving tours:
Mille Miglia 2025 starts in Brescia and follows a figure-eight course through Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria to Rome before the drivers return north to Brescia. As the name suggests, the route of the race covers around 1,000 miles, or 1,600 kilometres. The route is slightly different every year - with new, breathtaking sections that keep the race fresh and unpredictable.
On our tours, we make sure that you are always at the best vantage points and most exciting sections of the route - be it at the wheel of our classic cars or at an exclusive check-point of the competitors that guarantees the best views.
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The Mille Miglia is all about the rally, but also beautiful city centres: a Maserati Vignale leaving the Piazza Il Campo.
Registration for the Mille Miglia takes place via the 1000 Miglia Organiser's website and normally must be submitted by Christmas of the previous year. But you know The 1000 Miglia is not just any rally: It's about much more than simply enjoying the beautiful roads and towns along the route
It's about seeing and being seen. Millionaires, superstars, great car collectors and motorsport legends take part. They sit in the Classics-of-classics - vintage cars from 1927 to 1957 that have a concrete Mille Miglia or motorsport history. This also means that if you want to take part as a private individual, you have to fulfil many criteria - and: you have to bring money with you.
The registration fee for the Mille Miglia starts at €15,000. Complete participation packages range up to €75,000 and more. The purchase or hire of a suitable car, if not available, can run into hundreds of thousands or even millions. There are also high travel and transport costs. And: the classic car needs to be prepared to cope with the enormous strain of a 1,600-kilometre route in just a few days. The teams usually even have a professional mechanic travelling with them during the rally, who knows the classic car inside out and can carry out minor repairs immediately.
But even if you put the money on the table and have a suitable classic car to show for it, that doesn't mean you're allowed to take part. This is because the committee decides. Just under 400 teams are admitted and if you deduct the fixed places for the sponsors' racing teams, only around 200 free starting places remain. These are distributed among as wide a variety of historic vehicles and models as possible. So even if you have a suitable car and the necessary small change, it is possible that your vehicle type is already represented, and you will therefore be rejected.
It's much easier - and at a fraction of the price - with Nostalgic. Our exclusive luxury tours during and along the Mille Miglia are available from just €2,350 per person. Take a look at the different options and book your special Mille Miglia experience. (It pays to be quick, as the number of participants on these exclusive tours is strictly limited).
Drivers Castelotti and Ascari at the wheel of their Lancia bathe in the crowd at the start of the Mille Miglia.
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Mille Miglia team on a pre-war Bugatti on the road in Umbria
The history of the Mille Miglia dates back to the 1920s and has its origins in a city rivalry between Milan and Brescia. When it was decided in 1925 to build Italy's first Grand Prix circuit in Monza near Milan, which also hosted Formula 1, for example, resourceful businessmen from Brescia were motivated to come up with a completely different idea: instead of a classic race track where you drive in circles, they created an alternative race that covered the same distance as a full Grand Prix - but across the Italian countryside.
Over the years, the Mille Miglia has become an highlight mark among classic car events, practically the most important and famous event of the year. To this day, around 400 elite teams from over 40 countries compete against each other in the Mille Miglia. The participants drive legendary classic cars from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz or Alfa Romeo - making this race a unique automotive journey through time.
Andere Events wie beispielsweise die Targa Florio, der Gran Premio Nuvolari and also the Goodwood Revival certainly have their appeal and are extremely popular among fans, but it is the Mille Miglia that clearly sets itself apart with its extraordinary charm, its special style and the fleets of participants. Oh yes: and the celebrities are also a theme:
It's all about seeing and being seen. The Mille Miglia is a playground for Hollywood stars, racing icons and business moguls. Of course, lesser-known people also take part, but over the years numerous A-list celebrities have immortalised themselves in the history of the race. Examples?
Travelling through Tuscany with Nostalgic during the Mille Miglia 2025
We know how you can take part in the Mille Miglia without having to be a celebrity or break your bank account. Take a look at the exclusive Nostalgic tours through Tuscany, Umbria and Brescia during the Mille Miglia 2025. With us, you'll get the full feel of the legendary cars and roaring engines - but without the tight pace of the rally and with clever shortcuts that take you to the best spots of the action. You will drive part of the MM Route 2025, enjoy first-class restaurants and hotels, marvel at the rally and, with a bit of luck, meet famous drivers who have made automotive history.
Alfa Romeo Spider - no other car has won the Mille Miglia more often than this one. And on this tour, you will spend four days behind the wheel of this legend from the 1950s. The route takes you over the hills of Tuscany, past the vineyards of the Chianti region, along the desert-like landscape of the Crete Senesi, along the old country road between Siena and Florence and past the imposing towers of San Gimignano.
Get behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SL and discover the breathtaking coastal roads along Lake Garda. Cruise in style between water and rugged rock faces through the spectacular tunnels of the Gardesana and discover the alpine meadows of Monte Baldo. The grand finale? Brescia. There you will be right in the middle of the technical inspection of the classic cars and be there live at the big starting point for the legendary rally.
The most extensive adventure during Mille Miglia 2025: five days from Florence through Tuscany and Umbria to Rome and back again. Picturesque roads and breathtaking landscapes, beautiful cities, exquisite food and wine. Pure enjoyment in all its facets - including a joint drive through Siena with the official participants of the Mille Miglia.
Unlike in the past, Mille Miglia is no longer a race in the classic sense. It is a rally. And the winner is not the team that crosses the finish line first, but the team that has demonstrated clear strategy, precision and consistency during the rally. The rules are set out in the official road book:
The roadbook contains the route of the approximately 1,600-kilometre tour. Directions, prominent points, and hazards are represented by Chinese navigation symbols. Red arrows along the route also serve as real-time navigation. The decisive factors are time controls and stamping stations, which must be reached just in time and by following traffic regulations to avoid penalties. Milliseconds really can be decisive here. If you arrive too early or too late, you will accumulate additional time relatively quickly. This means that it is not just speed that is important but keeping a constant rythm within the applicable traffic regulations.
The winner of the Mille Miglia will be the driver who reaches the finish line with the best time. In addition to your own driving skills, precision training beforehand and the study of previous winning strategies, the co-driver is also crucial. He masters the road book and helps with navigation and timekeeping. To have a chance of winning, both drivers must work together in perfect synchronization. And, of course, the classic car also must hold out - after all, the race car has to cover a whopping 1,600 kilometres in five days
Once again: to win the Mille Miglia, the road book is binding, the stamp times are binding. You must be everywhere. Which makes the victory of the Briton Stirling Moss in 1955 even more impressive, which ultimately went down in history. Moss and his co-driver Denis Jenkinson completed the entire route in just 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds - in a Mercedes-Benz SLR, identical to the one you will be driving on two of our tours.
The time corresponds to an average speed of 160 kilometres per hour, which is amazing considering that the rally takes place on open roads, and you take considerable risks at this speed. Moss' start was still poor, but he overtook one competitor after another and took the lead. At the halfway point in Rome, he already had a clear lead and extended it further on the route back to Brescia. In the end, Moss' Mercedes roared to the finish line with a 30-minute lead over the runner-up.
Co-driver Jenkinson spent months studying the route and working out a meticulous strategy in a logbook. Moss and Jenkinson worked very closely together. They knew the track inside out. This enabled Moss to drive his Mercedes to the limit. Their joint strategy and skills have been a model for the preparation of participants in today's Mille Miglia ever since.
Why is the Mille Miglia no longer a classic race today? It has to do with a tragic incident in 1957. The Mille Miglia had mesmerised drivers and spectators for 30 years - as a breathtaking high-speed race that pushed the participating vehicles in a plethora of ways. Just two years earlier, Stirling Moss had triumphed. And now a devastating accident brought the Mille Miglia to an abrupt end.
On 12 May 1957, just 50 kilometres before the finish line, Alfonso de Portago lost control of his Ferrari 335 S at more than 200 kilometres per hour. The racing car left the road, crashed into a telegraph pole and skidded into a crowd of spectators. The driver, his co-driver and several spectators, including three children, were killed in the accident. And this - understandably - sparked a nationwide debate. The Mille Miglia, once a symbol of motor sport glamour and adventure, was deemed too dangerous and discontinued
On the one hand there was the danger of such high speeds and the difficult memories of 12 May 1957 - on the other hand, the unbroken fascination with the numerous historic cars on Italian roads. After the accident in 1957, it took 20 years before the Mille Miglia was revived. However, it celebrated its comeback in a different form: No longer as a race, but as a regularity rally. And that is the Mille Miglia as we know it today: Safer, less thrills, but more enjoyment, more impact and even more special flair. And regardless of whether you are a driver or a spectator with Nostalgic: it is a memory for life.
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From here, 50km remained before reaching the finish line Brescia after more than 1500 kilometers. Victory was within reach. The 24th edition of the Mille Miglia, a thousand-mile race across the Italian peninsula, turned the fields and villages along the route into a huge modern folk festival. The heroes in their loud sports cars, the smell of gasoline and the screeching of tires was so different from the bleak everyday life.
Eight-year-old Giovanni Conzato passed the time before the start of the race by playing with his playmates in the homestead ‚Corte Colomba‘. They were happy that church activities were canceled on this particular Sunday due to the ‚Mille Miglia‘.
With him were his two siblings Virginio and Valentina Rigon, ten and six years old respectively. The race took place on public roads with almost no protective barriers and staff to control them. The audience trusted the drivers and their race cars. Experiencing this type of action up close and personal gave an adrenalin rush and thrill which made men, children and women wave enthusiastically from the roadside.
On this fateful race day in May, Enzo Ferrari‘s cars, which were built in nearby Modena, were far ahead of the competition. It was him who had looked after the Alfa Romeo racing cars two decades earlier at the Mille Miglia before starting his own automobile company.
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