Discover the best hotels on the Costa Brava practicing cycle tourism
You have seen the Costa Brava in first person, from the car, on foot, from a boat, perhaps even from a bird's eye view from a balloon... What if now you let yourself be seduced by the safety and calm that a ride in bicycle?
From your saddle, life looks different: everything picks up an appropriate speed and you will become part of a moving landscape. Each one at their own pace, it's no race! It's about enjoying the journey and especially the destination. And to offer you everything you need when you get off the bike, you have the Grans Hotels de Catalunya establishments. Accommodations with charms of all kinds and for all types of audiences, which will be the final oasis of your adventures on the bike, and also the beginning of a new stage that can lead you, why not, to discover routes that you had no idea about. that they existed.
It doesn't matter if you are more of a Mountain bike type or prefer road cycling. The network of greenways, cycle paths and secondary roads is so extensive that in the same trip you can discover small coves on the Costa Brava and visit medieval towns and inland areas. You put your curiosity and your legs. In front of you you have kilometers of reasons to explore unique places, sea and mountains, which always treat anyone who approaches on a bicycle with complicity.
Breaking down the Tracks of the Costa Brava
We are at the end of August, a summer clearly different from the rest, and in which you will find many roads with less occupation than usual. All the more reason to enjoy them with more intensity, more safety and completely at your leisure.
We suggest you break down the Tracks of the Costa Brava in the way you see fit. It is a 216 kilometer route along dirt roads during which you will not stop admiring the beauty of the Costa Brava, its cliffs and hidden coves, the coastal paths and the light of the Mediterranean, as well as the serenity of the Gavarres trails. . A tour initially designed to be done in four days, but that you can adapt to your taste to discover the most authentic Costa Brava. Starting in Palamós (Hotel Àncora), from here each pedal stroke will take you to a new wave of sensations, passing through Calella de Palafrugell (Hotel Garbí, Hotel Sant Roc, Hotel Alga), Llafranc (Hotel Llafranc, Hotel Terramar, Hotel Llevant) and Begur (Hotel Aiguablava), discovering the medieval charms of Peratallada, Madremanya, els Àngels..., until reconnecting with the Mediterranean in Tossa de Mar, Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Hotel Sant Pol) and Calonge-Sant Antoni. Just you and the bicycle... and a whole paradise of sea and nature to discover.
Pedaling through the Ardenya and the Gavarres
Now let's get on the road bike. For those of you who prefer to ride on asphalt, winding proposals await you that will make you enjoy an enviable natural environment. The Ardenya and the Gavarres are two massifs dominated by the cork culture. Extensive cork oak forests coexist with pine and granite in these mountains of modest heights that separate the interior from the coast. The roads that cross them hide passes of moderate difficulty, protected from the sun by the thick forest cover. The first kilometers run along the sea along one of the most impressive coastal roads on the Costa Brava, the Tossa de Mar road, which will immediately put you in front of the first ports. The Sant Grau one surpasses the Ardenya, with constant slopes that become accentuated in the last kilometers until reaching 10% and occasionally 14%. The Gavarres crossing towards the sea takes advantage of the Santa Pellaia pass, more regular and gentle, between 3 and 7%, and sometimes reaching 10%, and continues again inland, through the Romanyà de La Selva, with average slopes that do not exceed 3%. We will accumulate kilometers in our legs and satisfaction throughout our body and mind.
You know, the magic of cycle tourism can be experienced alone or in a group. Pedal and enjoy dusty roads, infinite fields of crops that change color with each season of the year, the landscape of the Costa Brava... It is the law of the bicycle, with time standing still in its favor and with an entire territory to discover. That unwritten law that speaks of discovering new landscapes far from the city, in a respectful and unhurried manner, along poetic, safe and suggestive paths. The one that pushes you to stop in a lonely cove to bathe and gain strength and to continue pedaling until you arrive, at lunchtime, at a town that you will want to have forever in your memory.
Do you get on the bike and start pedaling?
Fotos: Alex Gostel, Francesc Tur, Facu Aguirre,Volata.
