In a moment of reaction to this sedentary life in front of the screen, I decided to buy a bicycle, so that I could get up and stretch my legs with a bit of healthy sport. Since I don't live in the city center and since Italy is certainly not a country that favors two-wheelers, I asked myself a problem that could probably be common to many other people: In which roads can I ride a bicycle "> Bicitalia is a new site that maps 18 thousand km of cycle roads, 18 itineraries and 50 roads for cycling. The site also has a list of hotels with facilities for cyclists and cyclists.
2) Cicloturismo.com I believe it is a new Italian site, very beautiful, which is proposed as a reference point for the two wheels. How to open the site asks " Where ", that is where you are.
Just indicate a street and the Italian city to then view all the feasible road routes by bicycle, including the few Italian cycle paths. On the Google map, the routes to ride a bicycle are highlighted which are listed below.
Bike paths are highlighted with a special icon.
Zooming you can identify the routes near the house, with the length in kilometers and an assessment of the difficulty, in case the road is mostly flat or with many climbs and descents. Clicking on one of the routes opens the map, reads a comment to find out if it is suitable for riding on racing bikes, mountain bikes or normal bicycles and a graph of the height differences appears.
Monuments where you can stop, restaurants and hotels may also appear on the map in case you want to organize an excursion by bicycle. Each track can be printed or downloaded . Anyone can create a new cycling route and publish it on the site.
3) The other site where you can find cycle paths and bicycle routes, near your home or for sports trips, is BikeMap.net which is simpler to use but equally useful.
Also in this case, the Google map opens and you can zoom in on Italy and your city. You can also start immediately from the list of Italian maps where you can see the icon of a bicycle, you can click to see the detail of the route to be done, with the mileage and the differences in height that precisely indicate climbs and descents . Before going with the bike, you can print the map or you can export it on the GPS navigator or download on Google Earth.
The site is international and collects cycling routes from all over the world but it is in Italian so there are many cycle routes in every city. From this site you can also get to see the itineraries to go by motorbike or on foot.
With these two sites you can forget to go to old and obsolete sites like pisteciclabili.com or others found on Google looking for this information.
