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Spain's Green Coast
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
9 days (Bike: 7 days)
292 km (~42km per day)
Moderate
Self-Guided
Semi-Supported
Prices from
Self-Guided
€ 1125
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Cycle the Spectacular North Spain Coastline from Bilbao to Asturias
Cycle Spain’s amazing landscape in the North!
Spain has something to suit everyone and the special Northern coastal regions such as País Vasco, Cantabria and Asturias are proof of this. With breezes from the Bay and a backdrop of the stunning Picos de Europa, intermingled with hidden valleys, Celtic influence, cool green forests, small fishing villages and sandy beaches it is enchanting. From Bilbao to Ribadesella, marine history and seafaring legends, mix with hardy mountain tales, and every village has its hidden treasure to discover as you bike through them.
A truly and authentic Spanish experience! Sample fresh seafood pulled right from the sea by the village fishermen. Be brave, order unknowns from the menu and speak with locals to get immersed in a centuries-old culture! If you are a real foodie you will love this region as its worldwide renowned for its pintxos and famous Michelin-star chefs.
Culturally Rich don’t pass up visiting the avant-garde Guggenheim Modern Art Gallery, Gaudi’s lovely little whimsical creation and enjoy Santander’s elegance in its 19th century architecture, Centro Botín Gallery and Michelin restaurants.
After all, as you pedal up and down this cycling paradise, you will feel courageous and living a unique cycling adventure.
Moorish Andalusia
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
9 days (Bike: 6 days)
358 km (~60km per day)
Moderate/Advanced
Self-Guided
Semi-Supported
Prices from
Self-Guided
€ 1285
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Each Mile, Millenniums of History
If you love cycle touring, the charting off new places, discovering ancient ones and revelling in a countryside well trodden though the centuries, then this Andalucian Self-guided bike tour is for you. A nature lover’s paradise as well as the traveller on 2 wheels. Seville, Córdoba and Granada are all explored.
Our home is Andalucía and our self guided bike trip lets you ride across the best and most famous landscape of Southern Spain. From your start in Carmona (just outside busier Seville) you can cycle all the way to Granada!
With an option to begin in Cordoba for those with less time, this is a route that encapsulates what we believe is the true heart of the South of Spain. You even pass through our home town, so we know the route pretty well! Think, Castanets, Caliphates, Carmen and Castles, that is what this colourful vivacious land shouts.
To explore this area in which the Romans trod, the Moorish society developed, and Spain takes particular pride in, is too much fun to pass up.
Granada & Sierra Nevada
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
5 days (Bike: 4 days)
430 km (~108km per day)
Moderate/Advanced
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
€ 1295
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Dream Big and Challenge Yourself
Cycle this phenomenal road cycling area, the best and highest in Europe!
Based in the centre of the beautiful city of Granada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, this tour takes you on 4 varied, scenic and challenging loop rides on roads carefully chosen by us using our local knowledge.
Rides are in the morning and get back early afternoon giving you plenty of time to relax, recover and explore the wonderful city. Being a short tour of 5 days in total, it should appeal to those of you who are looking to get some quality riding in on challenging roads over an extended weekend.
The loops take us out of Granada (easy to cycle in and out of with our local knowledge) onto the silky smooth asphalt roads, passing olive and orange groves and white villages galore. As a final test on the last day of riding, you ascend the infamous “Pico Veleta” of the Sierra Nevada, Europe´s highest road. Plus you have the chance to ride other famous local climbs used in previous La Vuelta’s and the roads where the pros train (Movistar, Garmin, Lotto and Peter Sagan with his Bora Hansgrohe team).. An ideal fixed based training camp.
Cotswolds & Stonehenge Cycling Tour
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
United Kingdom
8 days (Bike: 6 days)
397 km (~66km per day)
Moderate
Self-Guided
Semi-Supported
Prices from
Self-Guided
£ 1275
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
A self-guided cycling holiday from Oxford to Bath!
Cycle Quintessential England and its beautiful Cotswolds. This Self Guided bike tour takes you past thatched cottages, tiny bridges over bubbling brooks, stately willows on lawns of magnificent manors, haunted glens and medieval pubs where kings and queens passed the night, all of which make up the fascinating fabric of this tiny corner of England.
Your bike journey not only takes you from Oxford, the seat of fine education at the edge of the Cotswolds but over to ancient Bath, known by the Romans as Aquae Sulis for its thermal waters, and ends near the most renown English neolithic spiritual sight, Stonehenge.
Get off the bike and enjoy that perfect English tradition of pub life and taste the refreshing pale ales of the area served in medieval inns. This is an experience laden bike tour, which sights galore and local specialities of the region, like the fresh produce and seafood and the array of baking cakes and tarts to tempt any palate.
Staying in some historically steeped villages, this is definitely a trip for those who enjoy relaxing travel on two wheels, and watching millenniums of history slip by at each turn of the wheel.
Spanish Fixed Base Road Riding Andalucia
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
5 days (Bike: 5 days)
508 km (~102km per day)
Advanced
Self-Guided
Prices from
Self-Guided
€ 675
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Dream it, Do it. Cycle Andalucia
Ride the roads of the area where we have chosen to base Cycling Country! That means the cycling is excellent.
This package is a must of anyone wanting to experience the best of inland Andalucía.
Starting from Alhama de Granada, explore this scenic country area with a number of loop rides to nearby natural parks, towns and small villages. The mountain scenery combined with open expanses makes for some stunning viewpoints. Alhama itself is a great place to be based with its plethora of bars and restaurants, the magnificent gorge to explore, Sierra walks and the natural hot baths to take a soak in.
After time in the rural setting of Alhama, head off onto your other travels, or continue the tour for another couple days and include the grand city of Granada (bags transferred for you), home of the Alhambra Palace.
The next day embark on one of the great climbs in the world – the Sierra Nevada. Test yourself as you have the chance to ascend the highest road in Europe, the Pico de Veleta.
A great way to end the week!
Enchanted Andalucia
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
8 days (Bike: 6 days)
275 km (~46km per day)
Moderate
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
€ 2550
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Cycling Andalucia is an experience all cyclists should have! Andalucia is a region with evocative and highly romantic landscape infused with a delight of beauty and elegance.
Starting our cycling tour from outside stunning Seville and its stately cathedral, pedal to the sunny city of Córdoba. Enjoy the awesome UNESCO Mezquita mosque-cathedral and medieval Jewish quarter, before heading off into rustic Andalucía, home of shimmering olive groves and rolling hills.
In the distance the mountains of the Sierra Nevada rise, and you arrive at the jewel in the Moorish crown, Granada. Strolling around the romantic gardens of the Alhambra Palace, the 8th wonder of the world, it is a fitting way to end this cycling tour of Southern Spain.
Granada Explorer
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
1 days (Bike: 1 days)
60 km (~60km per day)
Various
Guided
Prices from
Guided
€ 50
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Short on time but still you would like to get out and about on a bike?
Fancy a day or two of fantastic riding and great cycling country? We have a number of trips for you to choose from in the countryside around Granada and our base in historic Alhama de Granada for different levels of riders.
Each cycling day ride is designed for different levels (from experienced roadies to beginners) and we have options for self-guided or guided. These rides could be just what your holiday needs after spending time in too many museums or lying on the beach at the Costa del Sol and needing the urge to burn off some of that sangría and paella.
Escape Granada city life and cycle out on some more tranquil roads and into the countryside that offers some staggering views of the Sierra Nevada and its most fertile surroundings.
Ride 1 – “River Cycling” – Easy – Hybrid bike – Guided – 30km. Follow the River Genil as it flows from the Sierra Nevada and feeds the rest of Andalucía. Enjoy this flat and gentle cycle with cafe stops and shady spots for rest.
Time: 4 hours. Price €85 pp,
Ride 2 – “In Columbus´ Footsteps” – Moderate – Guided – 60km. Explore this historic region, visit Santa Fe where Columbus received his commission to explore the “new world”, where Poet Garcia Lorca wrote his evocative poems and Kings and Queens trod.
A mainly rolling route with spectacular views of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Time: 6 hours. Price €95 pp, €10 extra if prefer road bike (hybrid hire included). (minimum 2 people)
Ride 3 – “Sierra Summits” – Challenging – Road Bike – Guided – 85km: 1200m ascent. Cycling the hilly terrain from Granada, wind your way up out of the city and tackle a 1300 metre pass (Granada being already at 700 metres) through stunning scenery into the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Road bike included in price.
Time: 6 hours. Price €100 pp (minimum 2 people).
Famous Vuelta Climbs of South Spain
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
6 days (Bike: 5 days)
465 km (~93km per day)
Moderate/Advanced
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
€ 1765
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Cycle the highest summit in Europe, Pico Veleta
Cycle the route of Vuelta legends as we tackle the best and most famous cycling roads that Southern Spain has to offer. From the dramatic landscapes of natural parklands around Málaga, Ronda, and Jaén to the classic cols that La Vuelta often ride (including the Pandera and “the wall” at Valdepeñas), we finish by ascending the highest paved road in Europe in the Sierra Nevada. Awesome.
A fantastic week of sunshine filled road cycling awaits for those aiming to challenge themselves on the famous Pro Climbs of Spain`s South. From Ronda to Granada via Málaga and Jaén provinces, this is the route of legends. And finish with the highest road bike climb in Europe……time to dance on those pedals!
The route has been selected to cram in as many of the great climbs and scenery of the area.
The roads are regularly ridden by pros. Just a few we have met over the years include Cadel Evans, Alejandro Valverde and Peter Sagan when ascending the Sierra Nevada. You never know who you might meet!
Andalusia: Lakes, Mountains & Sea
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
7 days (Bike: 6 days)
412 km (~69km per day)
Moderate/Advanced
Self-Guided
Semi-Supported
Prices from
Self-Guided
€ 1125
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
An epic cycle to challenge yourself on.
A hot, pulsating landscape to conquer stacks of summits and a finish down at the Mediterranean. A perfect trip for enthusiastic road lovers with some great cultural stops too. Pedal past hillside castles, mountain top villages and descend the most epic downhill you ever imagined!
If you want a week of thrilling self-guided quiet road cycling in Spain, then this tour is the one for you. Riding this route by bike is challenging but all efforts will be rewarded tenfold by the exciting and ever shifting landscape you breath in. Frontiers of the Moorish rule, the towns have not forgotten their heritage and with the spectacular views and hearty food, you won’t either. Taking in 3 provinces (Granada, Jaén & Cordoba) , this tour brings into play roads taken by the pros in the Vuelta a España and Andalucía.
Climbing passes used since the dawn of time, the natural geographic diversity is overwhelming and the glide back to the Mediterranean via a true mountain descent is an unforgettable delight.
Alhama Explorer
Tour Operator: Cycling Country Bike Tours
Spain
1 days
60 km (~60km per day)
Various
Guided
Prices from
Guided
€ 50
Overview
Tour Operator Cycling Country Bike Tours
Short on time but still you would like to get out and about on a bike?
Fancy a day or two of fantastic riding and great cycling country? We have a number of trips for you to choose from in the countryside around Granada and our base in historic Alhama de Granada for different levels of riders.
Cycling around Alhama de Granada offers the cyclist everything from white villages, lakes, sea viewing points, category hill climbs (and descents), and quiet roads. And the town of Alhama itself offers a glimpse of rural Spain at its best with lively tapas bars, thermal springs and a stunning gorge.
Ride 1 is made for the road cyclist (experienced or leisure) and Ride 2 is a road bikers extravaganza crisscrossing the Coastal mountains. There is other fantastic riding in the area if you would like to stay for a night or 2 in a rural retreat and make a longer cycling holiday in Andalucía.
Ride 1 – Moderate or Challenging – Hybrid or Road Bike – Self Guided – 55km or 75km. A circular loop ride passing small white villages and spinning through natural parks and an aqua blue lake.
Time: 6 hours. Price €50 pp. €10 extra if prefer road bike (hybrid hire included). €40 extra p.p. for guided
Ride 2 – Challenging – Road Bike – Self Guided – 85km. Get out into the coastal mountains and challenge yourself on the Puerto de Sol, with views of the Med, finishing the day in the hot springs of Alhama.
Time: 6 hours. Price €50 pp, €40 extra p.p. for guided