How to Arrive in Italy with Your Bike

Posted on May 24th, 2008 in Touring, Trips by admin


[Trieste - Credit: mariotto52]

Ways of Access:

  • Trieste - It’s connected with east Europe, and the difficult route will depend by the country start point (Romania, Ungheria, Croazia)
  • Alps - If you decide to pass through Alps mounts consider the high difficult of the slopes
  • Ligury - Ligury routes are more easy with a relaxing sea-landscape

Tours Idea:

  • City to City: Geneve-torino, Wien-Trieste.
    When you will arrive in italy cities start to tour the most important places.
  • City to natural lakes: Lion-lago maggiore
    Zurich-Lago di Garda through Alpi Mounts
  • Through beaches: Monaco-Sanremo through beaches of tirrenian sea where many cycle tracks are available

Benefits: You will save up your money (link chaeper italy biking) because you don’t have to pay any transport such as train or airplain or car.

Suggestions:

  • This type of long route is suitable for well trained cyclists
  • Choose the right season such as spring
  • You can pass from Italy to other country, for example for way back you can start from Italy places and arrive in you country: North Italy to German, France, Switzerland, Austria

Review of the Best Tuscany Biking Tour

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 in Destinations, Trips by admin


[Are them happy? - credit: astilly]

Attractions

  • Florence and its History (LINK Historic tuscany cities bike tour)
  • Pisa Tower (LINK Historic cities bike tour)
  • Natural landascape (LINK Inland Tuscany bike tour)
  • Vineyards (LINK Inland Tuscany bike tour)
  • Surrounding walls
  • Castles
  • Fortresses
  • Palio di Siena
  • Etruscan tombs and a museums

Weather

In may the weather changes everyday. It is normally clear and sunny but not hot or humid. It is local, especially in the hills. You could have a good biking with a few scattered showers. The ideal periods are Spring and Autumn but even the winter offers a suggestive atmosphere.


[View of a Trail - credit: rogilde]

Road Conditions

There are asphalt, dirt roads and trails. The territory has a capillary network of secondary roads that are in effect natural bike paths, far from motorized traffic.

Tuscany topography allow to ride its route also who isn’t not well trained, in fact you will cross rolling hills, but no steep climbs. This means that also a family with his children can ride through tuscany routes.

Suggested Bike Tours


[The Chianti Vineyards - credit: rogilde]

1° Chianti bike tour (LINK Inlan Tuscany bike tour) - Itinerary through the Chianti region, the wine country of Tuscany.
This bike tour starts from Florence and rides along the Mugello Valley, through ancient roads built by the Romans.

Its landscape has been the source of inspiration for painters and artists.

Famous Tuscans that born here: Giotto, Beato Angelico and Andrea del Castagno are all from this area. The Medici family had their roots in this land.

2° Florence tour ( LINK Historic tuscany cities bike tour)

3° Val d’Orcia and Crete Senesi. Bike ride through the typical Tuscany countryside south of Siena.


[Val D'orcia - credit: Oishi Kuranosuke]

Travel Services

In Tuscany there are hotels and country houses (agritourismo) with different services.
In towns and villages there are bed and breakfast establisments and rooms for rent that guarantee essential and cheaper services.