Why a cycling experience in the Italian and Swiss Lakes

• A playground made for cyclists

The most equipped, enjoyable and flexible road cycling routes between Italy and Switzerland (1,600 km – 1,000 mi).
The flexiblility offers you the opportunity to extend or shorten the rides depending on your fitness level.
The Italian and Swiss Lake District is a playground just made for cyclists who want to enjoy a cycling experience.

• An immersive cycling experience

With its mix of demanding climbs and gentle lakeside paths, this area offers exceptional cycling for all abilities.
While you might assume it's only for serious cyclists, we've created routes that avoid significant hills, allowing for gentle, leisurely and relaxed rides.

• Ten lakes on cycling experience

Easy access to ten lakes in the region: Lake Maggiore, Lugano, Como, Orta, Varese, Comabbio, Monate, Ganna, Ghirla, Brinzio. Narrow climbs, fast downhills, undulating and up and down back roads across valleys, hills and lakes together with a local guide during your cycling experience.

• Biking gets us closer

Biking brings all of us together, and helps us find a common point of view on the bike tour.
We believe that one of the greatest sources of pleasure is what happens along a ride and around a table during a coffee stop.

• The map of the routes on Google My Maps

Both you love to ride on your own and to join our guided tours, we will provide you the map of the routes drawn on Google My Maps.
So you can look at them on your dispaly without App, without signing up and logging in. Plus all the main Climbing Segments on Strava in the area (100+).

• Experience Varese and Lake Maggiore

We are the hotels owners, the guides and the operators of our bike tours as well. The guided cycling experience and the hotels experience are tied together.
Remain in our two hotels for the entire guided cycling holiday, so you can get a blend of advantages of what the town of Varese and the Lake Maggiore have to offer.

• Not only biking here

We love to ride by bike for fun without forgetting to enjoy what our area has to offer: ancient villas, parks, churches and hermitages which were built from Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century, exibitions, history, art, culture. Not only biking here on your cycling experience.

• Cycling experience in small groups

The opportunity to plan each day's ride to suit you in small groups (8/10 riders), giving you the space to discover the things we want to share and the things that make us unique.
A riding schedule that has you back to the hotel by mid-afternoon.

• Easy access from Milan Malpensa and Zurich airport

Access from Milan Malpensa airport.
A 43 minute train ride to Varese.
Access from Zurich airport.
In less than 3 hours Varese is connected to the Zurich airport via Gotthard Pass, Bellinzona, Lugano, Mendrisio.
The area is well-integrated both into the Swiss rail network and into the Italian rail network.

• Bike rides on your own

We can help you with the guidance providing you with detailed itineraries with route information, gpx files and our recommendations for places to see along the route.