Sardinia Cycling & Cooking | Food & Wine Focused | Guided Tour

Meet at your fabulous lodging in front of the sea – Professional bike fitting with BTS crew and test ride to Valverde Monastery for a total distance of 25 km. Optional, city tour with bike or walking. Alghero: lively and pretty city meets a new cosmopolitanism. In the afternoon, prepare for your first cooking class at Agriturismo Agave for a typical slow food, Alghero style dish.
Meals included: Welcome aperitif, Dinner
Lodging: Villa Mosca, Alghero

Cycling: round trip from Alghero to Capo Caccia.
Pedaling towards north Sardinia, we will encounter terrific beaches and landscapes; we will arrive to the cliff of Capo Caccia where is possible reach the sea by the narrow stairs. Who want, can ride till Argentiera beach for a total distance of 92 km. Go back to the hotel and for dinner is a special gourmet meal, tasting local Catalan cuisine within the old city walls of Alghero..
Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner
Lodging: Villa Mosca, Alghero

Cycling: bike ride from Alghero to Tresnuraghes. We depart Alghero biking up on beautiful uplands, viewing unforgettable landscapes, then we will arrive to Bosa dominated by the Malaspina castle; here you can have a light lunch and walk on the cobblestone street of the old village. then hop on the saddle again and ride up to Planargia Plateau where is settled our Hotel, exactly in Tresnuraghes. Get ready for cooking class at Villa Asfodeli: our chef will introduce the preparation of local pasta or making cheese: enjoy it. The dinner will includes tasting the local cheeses and other local delicacies.
Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner
Lodging: Villa Asfodeli

Cycling: Today we will bike along country roads passing through small villages such as Narbolia or Bonarcado. Soon we will arrive on the Campidano flat in Riola Sardo we will have a olive oil tasting hardly forgettable. Then straight to the Sinis Penisnula where there are plenty of lagoons and wetlands, where depending on the season, you will be able to see wonderful pink flamingos and where you can visit the ruins of the Punic-Roman port city of “Tharros” with a breathtaking view.
Finally we will arrive in Oristano, a medieval town of horsemen, famous for its SARTIGLIA (a medieval horse race).
Lunch at Olive oil mill with an extraordinary Olive oil tasting.
Dinner at Gourmet Pizzeria in Oristano.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch at olive oil tasting, Dinner
Lodging: Regina d’Arborea hotel

Cycling: Bike inland from Oristano through small villages enjoying the landscape of the vast flatlands towards the central hilly regions of Sardinia. Then we will ride around the Giara Plateau, a 600m highplane up on the sea level where they live a lot of wild little black horses called GIARINI. See murals of the small towns as Ruinas or Mogorella each with their own prehistoric Nuragic fortified towers, some towers with villages and others with remnant tombs of the giants. Then again through Gesturi and Climb again to Gergei where an unforgettable sunset await us before our dinner Gergei village.
Meals included: Breakfast, Picnic lunch, Dinner
Lodging: Is Perdas Farmhouse Resort in Gergei countryside

Loop bike ride in the Marmilla subregion. Start with your bike ride inland, downing towards Barumini. The area has long been populated even before Roman times and evidence of this can bee see on your ride! During it’s history, this region was chosen by locals as a spot to grow wheat and build Nuraghi towers. We will enjoy a spectacular descent surrounded by steep cliffs before Barumini, where you may be able to take a guided tour and walk inside the Unesco World Heritage complex of Su Nuraxi. Rest the legs in some of them to meet the local centenarians “GrandPa’s & Ma’s”. continue the ride in the Marmilla Sub-region and then riding back towards Gergei.
Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner
Lodging: Is Perdas Farmhouse Resort in Gergei countryside

After breakfast end of the tour transfer provided to Cagliari airport.
Meals included: Breakfast