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Nice

Col de Vence & Gourdon — Loop from Cagnes

The Riviera has a way of hiding its mountains until you go looking for them.

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Palma de Mallorca

Palma — Andratx Coastal Loop

Most rides give you a few kilometres to settle in. This one does not.

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Girona

Girona — Banyoles

There is a version of Girona cycling that has nothing to do with climbing.

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Girona — Rocacorba

There is a climb outside Girona that professional cyclists use as a measuring stick. Not for its length, not for its views, though both are considerable — but for its honesty. Rocacorba gives you exactly what you put in, no more.

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Barcelona

The Barcelona Weekend Loop — Tibidabo, Sant Cugat, Vallvidrera

The loop every Barcelona cyclist knows. Up the Tibidabo via l'Arrabassada, over to Sant Cugat, back through Vallvidrera. 37 km, 762 metres, two hours. The city behind you before the coffee is finished.

Nice

Riviera Gravel — Vinaigrier, Col d'Èze, Plateau de la Justice

A gravel loop above Nice in three hours — Mont Boron, the Parc du Vinaigrier, the Route Stratégique, Col d'Èze, Plateau de la Justice. The Côte d'Azur without the traffic.

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Mont Ventoux

Mont Ventoux from Malaucène — The Northern Approach

The northern face of Mont Ventoux — 21 kilometres from Malaucène to 1,909 metres. More technical than Bédoin, less crowded, open earlier in spring. The version of Ventoux that most cyclists never ride.

Girona

The Girona Gravel 100 — Empordà and the Gavarres

A hundred kilometres east and south of Girona through the Empordà plains and the Gavarres hills. Fast farm tracks, cork oak forest, medieval villages, and a finish back in the city along the Ter river.

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The Girona Gravel 200 — Three Landscapes, One Long Day

Two hundred kilometres of gravel north, east, and south of Girona — through the Pla de l'Estany, across the Empordà plains, and back through the Gavarres. Three distinct landscapes, 84% unpaved, and the best way to understand what this corner of Catalonia actually is.

Alcudia

The Mallorca 312 — Everything the Island Has

312 kilometres. 4,260 metres of climbing. The entire island in one day. Sa Calobra, Puig Major, Cap Formentor, the MA-10 coast. The Mallorca 312 doesn't ask whether you're ready.

Nice

Nice to Vence — The Col and the Artists' Town

Ninety-five kilometres from Nice into the hinterland and back. The Col de Vence is the reason — 9.6 kilometres of south-facing climbing above an artists' town, with the Mediterranean laid out below at the top.

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Alcudia

The Mallorca 167 — Puig Major, Sa Calobra, and the Long Way Back

The Mallorca 167 is not the short version of anything. Puig Major, Sa Calobra, the Coll de Femenia — three climbs that have nothing to prove, on an island that knows exactly what it's doing to you.

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Puigcerda

Cerdanya by Four Cols — The Alpinum Endurance

Four cols, two countries, one plateau. The Alpinum Endurance crosses Cerdanya and the Capcir all the way to the Catalan border — a long-distance route for riders who know mountains are earned in stages.

Mont Ventoux

Mont Ventoux from Sault

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Nice

Via del Sale

Tende · Casterino · Refuge Don Barbera · Passo di Tanarello

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Barcelona

The Southern Loop Barcelona — Gavà — Sitges — Garraf

Where the city dissolves into the sea

Andorra

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Andorra La Vella

Quick Andorra Loop: Andorra la Vella – Encamp – Sispony

A compact training loop that packs a remarkable amount of climbing into a short ride and showcases why Andorra is a cyclist's playground.

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Encamp

Andorra Loop: Collada de Beixalís & Coll d'Ordino

A compact Pyrenean classic featuring two iconic climbs, outstanding scenery, and a true taste of cycling in Andorra.

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Andorra La Vella

The 3 Nations Route — Puigcerdà, Andorra, France

Three countries, one day.

Cannes

L'Estérel — La Route des Cols

Take a breath. Col de Théoule, Col des Trayas, Col de la Cadière, Col des Trois Termes, Col des Suvières, Col de l'Aire de l'Olivier, Col de l'Essuyadou, Col du Mistral, Col du Baldou, Col du Perthus.

Nice

Mont Férion — The Ventoux of the Riviera Gravel

Fifteen kilometres from the Promenade des Anglais, above the traffic and the sea light, there is a mountain that most visitors to Nice will never see. The Mont Férion sits at 1 412 metres in the pre-Alps behind the coast, connected to the villages of Levens, Coaraze, and Duranus by a network of DFCI forest roads built for fire prevention and discovered, inevitably, by the cyclists who live here and needed somewhere to go that wasn't tarmac.

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Mont Ventoux from Bédoin

There is no climb in cycling quite like Ventoux. Not because it is the hardest — there are longer climbs, steeper climbs, climbs with more brutal gradients. But no other mountain concentrates so much cycling mythology into a single road. Coppi rode here. Simpson died here. Pantani and Armstrong had their reckoning here. Every serious cyclist who comes to Provence eventually stands at the bottom of the Bédoin road, looks up at the white summit visible from thirty kilometres away, and begins.

Inca

On the Inca Trail — The Interior Labyrinth

This route starts and finishes in Inca, the island's third city, and heads south into a landscape of dry stone walls, almond and carob orchards, and lanes so narrow they could be mistaken for private driveways. They are not. They belong to everyone willing to explore.

Palma de Mallorca

Sineu to the Mountains — Castell d'Alaró

The ride begins on flat agricultural roads before the terrain changes character completely. Somewhere near Lloseta, on the other side of the railway tracks, the mountains begin. What follows is one of the most varied gravel routes on the island — fire roads, hidden singletrack, concrete switchbacks, and eventually the medieval castle of Alaró perched on its improbable rock.

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Palma de Mallorca

Sa Creu & Galilea — Palma's Backyard

This is Mallorca for people who live here. Not the Tramuntana classics with their processions of rental bikes and team buses — just a good morning out, back before the city gets properly started.

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Alcudia

To the Lighthouse — Cap de Formentor

If Sa Calobra is the king of Mallorcan roads, Cap de Formentor is the queen. Less brutal, more theatrical. Where Sa Calobra earns its reputation through pure suffering, Formentor earns it through spectacle — a road that climbs, drops, twists and disappears around corners that reveal views so abrupt you forget to breathe.

Italy

Stresa

The Mottarone

What the lake looks like from 1 491 metres — and how hard you have to work to get there.

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Stresa

The lake loop — riding Lago Maggiore

Two countries, one shoreline, and 160 kilometres that remind you why you own a road bike.

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Nice

Coastal rides in Nice

Promenade spins and Madone days — where the Côte d'Azur peloton recovers.

Barcelona

Gravel stops near Barcelona

Montserrat trails and coastal gravel — essential checkpoints for Barcelona's off-road scene.

Nice

Braus & Turini Challenge: Two Legendary Climbs Above Nice

Two cols above Nice in a single loop — the elegant Col de Braus and the legendary Col de Turini, 1,604 metres, home of the Monte Carlo Rally. Sospel in between. 112 km, 2,497 metres of climbing.