Giro d’Italia in Lucca
Guided tour for amateurs in the Tuscan hills
Lucca, Montecarlo
An organised cycling tour designed for the Giro d’Italia 2024 in Lucca, with the finish line of stage 5 in front of Lucca’s city walls, and the start of stage 6 in Viareggio.
Mode
by bike
Duration
7 days
Number of people
2-12
Days
6
Months
May
Tour type
shared
Additional information
- Activities included
- Meeting point
- Info
- Price
- Description
Activities included
- overnight stay in double room in 3* hotel San Marco (6 nights)
- breakfasts
- hi-end Pinarello road bikes (Shimano 105 Di2, 12 speed, 50-34 / 11-32 t);
- local, professional cycling guides certified by the Italian Cycling Federation
- daily bike wash & tune-up
- mechanical assistance during the rides
- repair kit, bottles, pedals (Shimano road or MTB, Look Keo)
- all dinners
- daily laundry for bike clothing
- energy bars and snacks for each ride
- wine tasting in a local farm and wine producer
- a post ride massage by a former professional cycling team’s masseur
Not included in the program
- anything not included in "activities included"
Hotel San Marco, Via San Marco 368 in Lucca.
Sportswear is recommended. Each route, in terms of kms and meters of elevation, will be designed and agreed on based on the cyclists’ skills and fitness level. We usually suggest to start the ride in the morning, in order to be back at the hotel in the early afternoon and have also some free time.
€ 2.690 per person (min 2)
An organised cycling tour designed for the Giro d’Italia 2024 in Lucca, with the finish line of stage 5 in front of Lucca’s city walls, and the start of stage 6 in Viareggio: a total of 7 days cycling and discovering the city of Lucca, its beautiful surroundings and their hidden gems, participating in two stages of the Giro d’Italia.
Itinerary
Day 1
Arrival in Lucca check in at the hotel.
Bike check; warm-up - 30kms ride / bike test in the afternoon.
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 2
After breakfast at the hotel, departure to Montecarlo (the ride will end in the early afternoon).
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 3
After breakfast at the hotel, the ride to the northern mountains starts (ride ends in the early afternoon).
You will participate in the 5th stage of the Giro d’Italia in Lucca
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 4
After breakfast at the hotel, ride to Viareggio starts.
You will participate in the start of the 6th stage of Giro in Viareggio, ride ends in Lucca.
Post ride massage.
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 5
After breakfast at the hotel, depart for Passo del Cipollaio.
Ride ends at the hotel in Lucca.
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 6
After breakfast at the hotel, depart for Monte Serra and Pisa.
Wine tasting in a local farm.
Ride will end at the hotel.
Return to the hotel and dinner.
Day 7
After breakfast at the hotel, ʺfarewell” and a final short ride (40/50kms).
Characteristics of the experience
Host presentation
ChronòBikes
Paladino and Pietro are two professional cycling guides certified by the Italian Cycling Federation with a great passion for cycling and their territory. In 2021 they set up a cycling education program called “Chronò Young”, a completely free introductory course for urban and sport cycling, open to children from 7 to 14 years old. In 2022, together with Puccini Experience A.P.S., they designed and organized the first edition of the “Ciclo Classica Puccini”, a cultural cycling event where about 400 participants took part.
Paladino, 55, a lifelong cyclist, has owned and managed Chronò, for over 25 years, a sales and rental bike shop for all types of bicycles (urban, trekking, road and e-bike) in the historical city center of Lucca. Here you can find some of the best Italian cycling brands, including Pinarello, Cinelli, Guerciotti, Ganna, and cycling clothing made in Italy and Switzerland, such as Santini and Assos. His business has stood out over the years for the passion he brings to it, guided by the concept that riding a bicycle is a means of living an experience: not surprisingly, over the years he has accompanied visitors across the Plain of Lucca allowing them, during their bike rides, to experience the truest, most genuine side of the territory through unique experiences from a human, touristic and cycling point of view.
Pietro, 24, cyclist and bicycle mechanic since the age of 7, has been working in Paladino’s business for 5 years now as a mechanic and guide. In 2018 he went on work experience in the Netherlands, working in the bike shops of Het Zwarte Fietsenplan, the main bike sale&rental business in Amsterdam. His love for his land brought him back to Lucca, where he is now continuing his career as a mechanic and cycling guide at Chronò, dedicating himself in his spare time to the implementation of initiatives and projects which deal with the world of cycling.
