Italy Cycling & Biking Tours & Trips

Highlights

• Explore Assisi
• Discover the region and have an unforgettable experience
• A cycling holiday, or even a weekend biking trip, offers you the chance to get to know a local area.
• Visit Spoleto, which is built on a hilltop and is surrounded by an evergreen woodland and a hilly countryside.

Highlights

• Stay overnight in the white-washed city of Ostuni, in a 13th-century palace turned into a small intimate hotel
• Cycle the Ionian and Adriatic coastlines at your own pace, stopping to explore whatever and whenever you wish
• Stay in the seaside towns of Santa Maria di Leuca and Otranto, rich in ancient history and legend
• Enjoy ample opportunities to swim at sandy beaches and Mediterranean coves tucked under limestone cliffs
• Ride into Lecce, known as the “Florence of the South” for its exuberant Baroque architecture

Highlights

• Experience three European cultures on a single adventure—and even on a single day.
• Enjoy easy cycling as you admire alpine peaks, scenic valleys, medieval settlements, pasturelands, deep wooded slopes, and sunny cornfields.
• Follow a section of the incredible Alpe Adria Bike Path, a lure to cyclists from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea.
• Spend a day at Storybook Lake Bled, perhaps boating or hiking as well as cycling.
• Stay at exceptional accommodations, including one of the most luxurious and innovative hotels in the world.

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• Savor fresh farm cuisine during stays at fattorie lodgings
• Dip your toes, lounge in the sand, or swim in the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Learn from a Tuscan chef how to prepare cantucci almond cookies
• Taste locally pressed olive oil at a local oil mill
• Walk a panoramic trail with a local guide on Giglio Island

Highlights

• Join a farmer and his trusty dog on a hunt for precious truffles on the trails of one of the last unspoiled woods in the area.
• Enjoy a two-night stay at the historic Tenuta di Fontanafredda, whose winery was founded by a king.
• Sip Barolo where it was born when you head into a majestic underground cellar, named one of the 100 most beautiful in the world.
• Learn to prepare pesto as the locals do during a fun and informative cooking class.
• Relax at the private beach at your Riviera hotel, where you spend three nights.

Highlights

• Cycle from one small alpine city to another, taking in rich cultures steeped in remarkable histories.
• Ride the diverse landscapes of the Dolomites, from vineyard-blanketed hills, emerald-green valleys, and sylvan forests to dramatic foothills and a 7,000-foot mountain pass.
• Coast down a mountainside from Pordoi Pass, navigating 33 switchbacks as you descend for six miles along roads made famous by Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi.
• Revel in some of Europe’s best-maintained bike paths, stellar routes that comprise 90% of this itinerary.
• Sample the culinary delights of South Tyrol, from alpine cheeses and speck (cured ham) to pinot noirs along the Wine Route.

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• Explore baroque Scicli with a local guide, and venture outside the city to the lovely Noto Valley.
• Tour an organic winery and olive maker in the canyons of the Iblean upland.
• Join your hotel chef for a hands-on demonstration of Sicilian cooking.
• Discover the fishing village of Marzamemi, recently restored to its 17th-century glory.
• Complement your cycling with basking in the sun or swimming at the beach.

Highlights

• Sample delicious sparkling wines at a cantina in Franciacorta, Italy’s “Champagne” region.
• Cycle the scenic lakeside bike paths around Lake Iseo, made famous when the artist Christo installed his “floating piers” here.
• Marvel at breathtaking scenery when you ride the UNESCO-listed Bernina railway, then cycle among the splendid Bernina peaks.
• Ride the easy bike paths of the Valtellina valley, blanketed in vineyard terraces among miles of dry-stone walls.
• Taste delicious Pizzoccheri pasta and local cheeses only found in Valtellina.