Piedmont Bike Tours

Piemonte is the only place you can enter starred restaurant and order the best truffle in the world, garbed in your bike shorts and helmet!

Many of the climbs of the Giro can be found and climbed here: Colle delle Finestre, Colle dell'Agnello, Colle del Nivolet and Colle Fauniera. 


But, there are rides for every cyclist to enjoy, the vineyards and hazelnut groves of the Langhe and Roero, to the bike paths along the green countryside of Piemonte.

A SELECTION OF OUR MOST RIDDEN TOURS

Departing and ending at the hotel:

Barolo wine roads (Langhe) 100km +1400mt

Barbaresco wine roads (Langhe) 90km +1000mt

Bra, the birthplace of Slow Food (Roero) 85km +750mt

Colline Alfieri (Roero), 80km +1200mt

Cisterna d'Asti (Roero), 60km +600mt

Basilica di Superga (Collina di Torino) 85km +800mt

Monferrato and Asti (Monferrato) 90km +1000mt

Albugnano (Monferrato) 85km +900mt


SPECIAL RIDES (on request by private van approach)

Alta Langa (Canelli, Santo Stefano Belbo, Cortemilia...)

The epic roads of Fausto Coppi (Castellania)

Middle mountain rides (Valle di Susa and Valle di Lanzo)

The great climbs of the Alps (Colle delle Finestre and Sestriere, Colle dell'Agnello, Colle del Nivolet, Colle Fauniera, Colle della Lombarda, Colle del Moncenisio, Colle della Scala, Izoard, Iseran)

Piemonte - Riviera (from Piemonte to the seaside, 140km +1500mt fully supported)

Roero

The cycling area of Roero is located in the south of Piemonte, a small but magnificent hilly area famous for its unique wines (Nebbiolo and Arneis) and fruit production (strawberries, chesnuts and peaches) named in 2014 a UNESCO heritage cultural site with Langhe and Monferrato. The name Roero comes from a local noble family of merchants and bankers owners of most lands and castles in the area.

The town of Canale with the small shops and restaurants under the arcades and the Enoteca which represents the entire wine production of Roero.

Castellinaldo is a tiny uphill village mostly dedicated to the viticulture, the balcony in the historical centre offers the unique view on vineyards.

Visit the Castello Reale in Govone, the beautiful baroque building resstored by the Savoy family in 1820 and surrondend by vineyards.

 Bra is the capital of Roero, the birthplace of Slow Food movement which proote the real flavours of the land. The city is rich in noble builings and churches. 

The Giro d'Italia visited recently the Roero region, in 2021 stage 3 ended in Canale and in 2023 the city of Bra hosted stage 12. 



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The wine roads of Langhe

Langhe cycling area is around the city of Alba, south-east of Torino where the wine production is predominantly in the lower hills fenced off in the northern part by the river Tanaro. Each hill has a steep side that holds up the next, gentle slope, generating a unique sun exposure that is reflected in the cultivation of grapes of Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto. All fine wines that have made the Langhe area famous at international level.

The capital of the Langhe, it’s also home to Nutella! There are many great reasons to visit including the historical cernter, the Michelin starred restaurant and the beautiful top-hill villages around like Barolo, La Morra and Barbaresco.

One of Italy's excellent food and wine products, as precious as the land where it is made: the white truffle.



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Gravel rides

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The best cols of the Alps

The BIG rides

Are you ready for the challenge?


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Superga and Torino hills

You will find history, art and legend while climbing to the Basilica di Superga, overlooking Torino, 672 meters high, and providing an unparalleled view of the Alps. The Basilica of Superga is one of the Torinese Baroque masterpieces, begun in 1731 by the hand of Filippo Juvarra, a member of the Savoia family. 

In medieval times, the more towers a city had, the richer they were, vitit the city of Chieri it had over a 100 towers! Not to miss Casa Martini and Martini&Rossi museum and factory, the history of Vermouth wine-making.

The top-hill village of Albugnano 549 meters high, is the highest town of basso Monferrato. Albugnano DOC wine made with Nebbiolo grapes is a perfect match with the flavours and excellences of the Piedmont’s cuisine.


 



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  • We had a nice stay of 5 days in this cyclinghotel near Turin.
Gianni and his staff are very helpfull and gave us some good suggestions when we wanted to visit Turin.
The cyclingtrips were wunderfull on the countrysides and hills of Piemonte. A beautiful view on Turin was one of the rewards of cycling the hills of Superga.
Guide Sergio gave us a lot of information about the area and arranged even a airpump from the hotel when one of us had a flat tyre!
It was a Nice combination of haring a nice cyclingtrip and learning Italian.
We had the Giro stay wich is complete package including all food and drinks, cyclingguides, washing your cyclingclothes, use of the sauna and a very excellent winetasting evening at the winery of the family of Gianni!
There is a very beautiful garden and poolarea at the hotel.
Also for families and groups this hotel is a good suggestion!

    Els from Nederland.

  • The rooms and quality of food were good. What made this experience exceptional were the people, service and landscape. David and his team made us feel like kings (and queens). Their attention to detail and desire to please will be difficult to beat. Workshop for bikes is very well equipped. Very nice Bianchi Bikes available to rent.
On one long 120 k ride I casually commented, to our guide David, that the group was starting to get hungry and would the restaurant be open when we arrived. He was immediately on his cell phone. When we arrived, the kitchen had prepared an amazing spread of meat, cheese and wine (no charge).
We have cycled extensively in Italy and Europe, the landscapes and lack of traffic was second to none. Hazelnut orchards , vineyards, snow covered mountains in the distance.

    Steve from Canada.

  • This was our second trip to the Piedmont Bike Hotel in Pralormo. The service in both the hotel and the cycling tour was fabulous. Gianni and his staff provide excellent service at the hotel. Davide and Sergio gave us another spectacular week of cycling. They were able to accommodate all levels of cycling. Highest recommendation.

    Colleen (USA)

  • Just came back from a one-week cycling vacation in Italy and stayed at Hotel Lo Scoiattolo. Highly recommend this family-managed and operated hotel. Extremely friendly and helpful staff all around; can`t speak highly enough of them. Very nice and comfortable room, satellite TV to follow the Giro, and good selection of very tasty meals. Couldn`t have asked for more to fuel my days spent on the bike cycling around the area. Thanks again Gianni and all your staff for all the help.

    Simien (Belgium)

  • Pralormo is a very good place to discover the Piemont by bicycle, very well placed between Torino and Alba. Don`t think that this place is flat, we could make some rides with more than 2`000 m elevation. The guides were very good, taking care of the riders, giving explanations about the places we visited. The staff is very friendly and helpful and the room are ok (clean and big). The ones on the garden side are the best. If you want to have a real italian bicycle experience it is the place to be.

    Nanar (Switzerland)

  • A group of 8 friends stayed at this `Bike Hotel` in early June 2014 for 4 nights. The twin share rooms were clean and quiet, food was very good, and facilities for `bicyclists` were excellent. The three guides, Davide, Sergio and Silvio were all excellent and we had wonderful Italian cycling experiences with them. On one ride we were caught out in a summer storm with hale and lightning, and the hotel sent out a van to `rescue` us. This is an example of how the hotel is prepared to do extra for their guests. I would stay at this hotel again, and it is in a wonderful location to explore the Piedmont area. We were on a half board cycling package, and I consider the hotel was excellent value for the services provided.

    William (NEW ZEALAND)

  • We spent 6 days in the hotel and were able to go nearly every day on a cycling tour. I rented a top Pinarello Gan S (the Italian workhorse) but could have rented as well a top Dogma. The combination of hospitality, warmth and charm displayed by Gianni and his team was great. He organized a great wine tasting of the less known Roero wines including dinner in the family winery. The tour guides Sergio and Paolo were not only fit and friendly but very knowledgeable about culture, history and of course wines. All in all a great experience, good hotel, excellent and attentive hotel staff, top guides, top rental bikes and with Gianni a top notch, old school hotel manager who reads every wish from a guests mind. A great thumbs up from Alfredo, Kurt and Shane!

    Alfredo (UK)
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