Sardinia Challenging | Road Bike Tour | Self Guided

Meet & greet in Alghero, bike fitting and Orientation. Alghero is a lively and pretty city and a flourishing tourist attraction not only for the summer masses and elite tourism, but also for a new cosmopolitanism. Bike-test after fitting and briefing. Take a stroll in the old-town where you can take pleasure walking around or just sitting down while enjoying a drink at sunset before a seafood dinner! Overnight in Alghero.
Lodging at Villa Piras hotel.
Meals included: Welcome Aperitif

Loop bike ride from Alghero to Stintino and return via Nurra region. Start from your hotel and cycle through the vineyards of northern Sardinia. Take a coffee break in Stintino; from here, you can admire the island of Asinara, which was the location of a secluded and active prison. Ride back to Alghero to enjoy the Catalan Fortified city. Less distance is possible visiting the Argentiera old mine village and Capo Caccia cliffs and cave. Overnight in Alghero.
Lodging at Villa Piras hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast

Skirt the coast on rolling hilly terrain. You depart Alghero cycling up and down beautiful highlands. Admire the massive castle and surrounding village Malaspina in Bosa where you can stop for a fantastic gelato and walk in the center of the town or along the river. Just after Bosa you will pass the Malvasia Valley where they produce the famous Malvasia dried white wine. After that, you will pedal up to the Planargia Plateau and you will pass many characteristic, small Sardinian villages. You will arrive in Santu Lussurgiu after climbing the glorious Montiferru mountain. Overnight in Santu Lussurgiu at Antica Dimora del Gruccione, where you are able to enjoy the unforgettable gourmet dinner prepared at hotel the restaurant.
Meals included: Breakfast

This route will bring you to the peak of Montiferru and cycling through small Sardinian-Spanish style villages. After Cuglieri, it’s all downhill towards the sea with its suggestive landscape sculpted by the wind and sea. Then the ride continues on towards the Sinis Peninsula, where depending on the season you will be able to see pink flamingos on its wetlands and marshes. Overnight in Oristano.
Meals included: Breakfast

Heading inland away from the flats, you will ride through charecteristic Sardinian towns, following the Tirso river. This loop will take you to Fordungianus, famous for its thermal baths once enjoyed by Roman Legions and still by visitors today in modern Spa’s. Enjoy this volcanic landscape and its rolling hills which are great for cycling. Bike there and back while passing next to Pre Nuragic tombs, Nuragic villages, and Roman ruins. Return to Oristano throughout the Campidano flat. Overnight in Oristano at Duomo Hotel.
Meals included: Breakfast

Cycling: from Oristano to Sardara via Portu Maga. Our final stage will start out on flats to a fishing village called Marceddì before you ride inland up and across a ridge of the Green Coast. Its roads wind up and down bringing you to a mining town, now turned into a mineral-geologic museum in Montevecchio, close to Arbus. Continue down again to the Campidano flat where the thermal SPA of Sardara awaits you. The Hotel is settled right at the slope of the hill where the ruins of the famous Monreale Castle can still be seen dominating the Campidano flat.
Lodging: Sardinia Termale Hotel in Sardara
Meals included: Breakfast

After breakfast, end of the tour or possible for a short loop ride before departure to reach the Unesco World Heritage site of Barumini where a visit is not to be missed of the most famous and most intact Nuraghic village and fortified central tower.
Meals included: Breakfast

Cycling in the heart of the Marmilla region. This region is what locals call little Tuscany for its never ending rolling hills, little traditional villages in agricultural fields, a rising cycling destination. The key highlight is a visit to the Unesco World Heritage site of Barumini , an iconic archeologic prehistoric site in Sardinia where one can find one of the best examples of a Nuraghic village with its enormous central tower dating back to 2500BC.