Epic Road Rides

The Pirinexus is a 340 kilometre circular cycling route through northeast Catalonia and the Vallespir region of France. It links Girona’s greenways with quiet roads, ancient forest tracks and coastal paths, taking riders from Girona towards the Pyrenees, over the Col d’Ares into France, back through cork oak forests and the Empordà, then along the Costa Brava before looping b...

ViaRhôna is an 815-kilometre cycling route that follows the Rhône from the clear blue waters of Lake Geneva to the salt air of the Mediterranean. Part of EuroVelo 17, it carries riders past mountain-backed lakeshores, riverside towpaths, vineyard terraces, stone villages and sun-baked southern towns, making it one of France’s most varied point-to-point cycling routes.

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The 2018 Innsbruck World Championships thrust road cycling in Austria into the hearts and minds of the cycling world. Since then, Austria has remained firmly on the cycling map, helped by Anna Kiesenhofer’s shock Olympic road race victory at the Tokyo 2020 Games, held in 2021, and by major races such as the Tour of Austria and Tour of the Alps.

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Cuneo sits in the south-west corner of Piedmont, a place long loved by Italian cyclists but still relatively undiscovered by riders beyond Italy and its closest neighbours.

Set between the Alps and the Mediterranean, the Cuneo region offers a rare mix of terrain: high mountain passes used by the Giro d’Italia, quiet valley roads and an extraordinary network of historic...