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Close to the Swiss-Italian border, EuroVelo 5 reaches lake Como, running along the coast and a waterfront promenade. Beyond museums, gardens, villas and theatres, the city is located at the foothills of the Alps, and rich with ancient churches, introducing visitors to the pilgrimages of the Middle Ages. Milan is located in a flat land at the heart of the Po River valley, halfway between the foothill of the Alps and the Po river. It is the economic capital of Italy, mainly known for design, fashion and music, Milan also has an important Medieval and Renaissance era heritage.
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UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Culinary Delights
Maritime Heritage / The Rhine / The Meuse
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Mobility info center
The Italian National EuroVelo Coordinator's website provides plenty of information about cycling in Italy. Further information on cycle tourism is provided on their 'Bicitalia' website.
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Further information on EuroVelo routes 5, 6, 15 and 17 can be found on the website switzerlandmobility.ch or in the free SwitzerlandMobility app. Each route has a detailed photo gallery, a description as well as information on distance, elevation profile, difficulty levels and how to get there by public transport. You can also find accommodation, places of interest, cycle service and rental stations, or closures and detours along the route.
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EuroVelo 5 follows the North-South national cycle route in Switzerland. The North–South Route leads through the large scenic Swiss regions of the Jura, Mittelland, Central Switzerland and over the Alps to the south. It follows many historically and culturally significant traffic routes and visits many places of interest.
If a hotel, farmhouse, bed & breakfast or camp site is happy to accommodate cyclists, FIAB's Albergabici® service is the way to tell cyclists who are touring their area or just out for a day's excursion about their services. The website offers over 2000 places to stay, tailored for road bike, mtb or touring holidays and with e-maps to help you find accomodation along EuroVelo and national routes.
If you're interested in the network of Italian national long-distance routes, then this is the right site for you. The aim of the site is to provide online maps of the network of cycleways, together with information about places to stay in and points of interest. The Bicitalia network includes 20 national routes. Download the tracks under 'Routing/GPSx'!
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"Albergabici" managed by FIAB offers a range of accommodations equipped to meet the needs of a cycle tourist with extras like luggage transfer or bike rentals. The results can be viewed on the interactive map.
On SwitzerlandMobility, you will find selected bicycle-friendly accommodation. These have a lockable bicycle storage room, bicycle repair kit, and washing and drying facilities for clothing. On the map, accommodation options can be filtered by different categories – hotel, BnB, holiday apartment, group accommodation, campsite and much more.
