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Welcome to Hooked on Cycling holidays and our cycling holidays in Italy. This biking vacation in Italy will take you from Venice along the coast to the Croatian town of Porec. This is a level 1-2 self guided cycle tour. The starting point of this cycle tour begins with “la Serenissima”, Venice the lagoon city on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. Cycling past the beaches of the classical holiday resorts of Jesolo and Caorle on the Italian Adriatic, an opportunity always presents itself to take a refreshing swim in the sea. Due to this fact, you should never forget to pack your swim gear.
Besides these beaches, the inland regions of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia offers countless sites with very special charm waiting to be discovered; Mediaeval fortress towns; Roman archaeological excavations; typical Italian Piazzas and buildings embossed with Venetian influences causing the visitor to forget time and space. While on the one side, the Adriatic stretches calmly and silently, the Julian Alps rise majestically to the north. The tour terminates on the Croatia peninsular. The return journey to Venice by boat is the final crowning concluding the week long cycling tour.
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Available on Saturdays 14th April to 6th October
Not Available from Saturday 28th July to 25th August
Level 1-2 self guided cycle tour
Day 1 Arrival in Venice (Mestre / Marghera)
Arrive at the hotel on the mainland (Mestre / Marghera) from where the tour will commence. The city of Venice has a well organised and easily accessible public transport system.
Day 2 Venice (Mestre / Marghera) – Jesolo and environs 25 miles 40km
The first few kilometres in the lagoon city are carried out by bicycle. Then you take a ferry across to Punta Sabbioni. On the endless beaches at Litorale di Cavallino, a spit of land in the north of the lagoon, the route is lined by numerous fishing boats and souve
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nir stalls. Before you leave Venice through the “backdoor”, the opportunity exists for an excursion to the lighthouse at the outmost end of the island for a last view of the lagoon city and the surrounding islands. On the way to Jesolo one can hardly resist the opportunity to have a refreshing dip into the cool wet. You spend the night in Jesolo or a seaside resort on the Adriatic.
Day 3 Jesolo and environment – Portogruaro 36 miles 57km
Along the coast and passed the last fishermen’s cottages, you reach Caorle a wonderful, small seaside resort with a historical centre. On reaching this destination, it signifies leaving the sea for a while as the direction is dictated by the mainland in the direction of the Julian Alps on the horizon.
During the spring period of the Venetian Republic, it was convenient for the interior to encompass Portogruaro as a very important River harbour in the “Serenissima”. Even today there are those in Portogruaro who regard their city as the most Venetian. They are not entirely incorrect when you look at the Venetian embellishments of the magnificent buildings and places.
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Day 4 Portoguaro – Aquilea/Grado 28-33 miles 45-55km
Besides the beaches of the Adriatic, there is a lot to discover; ruins of former Roman cities, ancient churches and lonely landscapes on the edge of the lagoon. The journey continues comfortably through the interior en route to Aquilea, once a large city of the Roman Empire. Excavations of the Roman city can be seen in the open-air-site and in two museums. The rich in tradition seaside resort of Grado is found with parts of the old town on the lagoon island and is connected to an added part on the mainland. The guests are greeted by alleyways’ as narrow as a Labyrinth and medieval places typical of the fishing towns of the upper Adriatic.
Day 5 Aquilea/Grado– Trieste 35 miles 55km
To begin with today’s stages which continue through the hinterland of Trieste, soaked in a meagre barren landscape of rocky caverns before returning to the sea and a coastline of unique beauty. Where the elevated plateaus plunge into the deep blue water and the white precipices stand upright jutting towards the heavens; and then the coastal road follows through suggestive resorts like Duino, Sistiana, Miramare, and Barcola. You should take time to visit the romantic castle of Miramare high above the Bay of Grignano situated in the middle of a beautiful park in which a multiplicity of more the 2000 plants prosper.
High above the Gulf of Trieste, entrenched is a city bearing the same name, once a harbour metropolis of the Habsburgs Empire and where you will be spending the night. There is a possibility to shorten this stage of the route with the bicycle to secure more time for sightseeing.
Day 6 Trieste – Portorož/Piran21-30 miles 35-50km
Only after a few kilometres today, we take leave of Italy. In Slovenia, the route continues predominantly on cycle paths through well known seaside resorts like Koper (Capodistria) and Izola (Isola d’ Istria), to Piran (Pirano) or to Portorož (Portorose), a spa resort on the Slovenian Riviera.
Recommendable is the a little bit longer alternative of this stage which passes along the valley “Rosandra” in the back country.
Day 7 Portorož/Piran – Poreč 37 miles 59km
Cycling past the salt gardens of Secovlje where on enormous surfaces and through natural vaporisation, sea salt is recovered, you cross over the border into Croatia. For a distance, the route goes through the Croatian part of Istria, the largest peninsular on the Adriatic with its slightly hilly terrain on the way to Porec, the most important co astal city on the west coast of Istria. It is certainly worth a visit to Euphrasian-Basilica which has been taken up by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
On this day a free minibus is available for the cyclists to shorten this slightly hilly stage (registration on the informal conversation at the beginning of the cycle tour is necessary).
Day 8 Departure
The final crowning of the tour is the return boat trip to Venice. From the boat you can sit back and review again the saddled distance covered as the boat continues on route to the lagoon city. A transfer boat leaves Poreč every Saturday approx. 8am and arrives at an estimated time of 10h30 in Venice.
Price per person: £75 . When booking we need your name, date of birth, official document (Passport or Identity Document) document numbers and valid date. The payment of the ferry must be made on top of the deposit at time of booking and if your tour is cancelled you would loose the cost of the ticket. Rental bikes are left at the hotel in Porec.
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What is Included
- 7 Nights Bed and Breakfast
- 3 star hotels , guest houses and Inns
- Information Pack
- Luggage transfers
- Routes Instructions and Maps
- Welcome meeting
- Ferry transfer from Venice to Punta Sabbioni
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Extras
- Cost before and after tour
- Bike Rental
- Extra nights
- Single Supplement
- Travel Insurance
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Tariff 2012
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Tour Code VenPor
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Price per person based on two persons sharing double/twin room
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£625
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single Occupancy
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£736
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High Season 30/6-15/9 per person
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£53
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Rental Cycle Hybrid / Electric
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£75 / £160
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Extra night Mestre per person
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£56 double , £84 single
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How to get there
By Plane
To Venice airport.
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