Bike Mania

There are many passes that you can face making a stop at the Hotel Milano, exciting routes at high altitude, practiced by the great cycling champions and lovers of this discipline:

For Mountain Bike lovers:

Route A – Conca della Presolana

Departure: Bratto (fraction of Castione della Presolana)
Arrival: Bratto (fraction of Castione della Presolana)
Description: wide anticlockwise turn of the Conca della Presolana, passing through Monte Pora and Passo della Presolana, along part of the Sentiero dei Carbonai and Via del Latte.
Distanza: 33 km
Altitudine: from a minimum of 870 meters and a maximum of 1,705 meters above sea level
Dislivello: 1.500 meters
Durata: 6 hours
Difficulty: high
Technicality: low
Ciclability: 85% ascent and 90% descent
Found: asphalt 25%, cement 10%, dirt 40%, trails 25%
Practicability: from May to November
Sentieri: CAI 329, 25, 29, CAI 317, CAI 318

Route B - Valzurio/Colle Palazzo/Ardesio

Departure: Alta Val Seriana base camp - Villa d'Ogna car park, transfer by car (15 km)
Arrival: possibility of two points of return by choice, or through the same road of the going or from the main descent of Colle Palazzo. Recommended the main path, with the change of valley and descent towards Ardesio.
Description: most of the route is on the Serio high trail. The initial climb is easy and on asphalt and can easily be continued along the long stretch of the Serio high trail. From the huts of the Moschel begins the long single track, which requires a high technical level but it is not dangerous. The fast and fast descent towards the valley, "down by bicycle" for about fifteen minutes and then all down towards Ardesio.
Distance: 30 km
Difference in height: 1.200 meters
Duration: 4 hours
Difficulty: high
Ciclability: 90%
Fund: asphalt 30%, cement 10%, dirt 30%, s.track 30%
Practicability: from March to November
Sentieri: high Serio 534

Route C – Monte Farno/San Lucio

Departure: Ponte Nossa
Arrival: Ponte Nossa
Description: Ring route that circumnavigates the Pizzo Formico. Short heating of about 4 km and a rather difficult climb on Mount Farno. After finishing the last steep stretch, we find a road that offers us many slope exchanges in this wonderful plateau at 1,200m asl. The descent is one of the most interesting in the territory, very technical and varied, it goes from the single track in the woods to stony toboggans, down through the fields, up to the dirt road on the forest.
Distance: 33 km
Altitude: from a minimum of 400 to a maximum of 1,463
Difference in height: 1.100 meters
Duration: 3,5 hours
Difficulty: high
Tecnicality: high
Ciclability: 95%
Fund: asphalt 30%, cement 10%, dirt 30%, s.track 30%
Practicability: from March to November
Trails: 545,508

Route D - Valbondione/Curno/Barbellino

Departure: Valbondione, transfer by car (22 km)
Arrival: Valbondione, transfer by car (22 km)
Description: All mountain trail at high altitude, which requires a good leg and breath training, passage to the spectacular artificial lake of Barbellino. The route starts from the most extreme point of Val Seriana: Valbondione. Here there is the ending of the long tongue of asphalt that for 50 km goes up the valley from the city of Bergamo. After leaving the car, you can continue by mountain bike along the valley excavated by the Serio, along the wide path that leads almost to the springs.
Altitude: from a minimum of 895 to a maximum of 2,138
Distanza: 24 km
Difference in height: 1.600 meters
Duration: 5 hours
Difficulty: high
Tecnicality: average
Ciclability: 90% ascent, 100% descent
Fund: 3% asphalt, 0% cement, 77% dirt, 20% s.track
Practicability: from May to September
Trails: 305, 304, 324

For Road Biking lovers

Route A – Conca della Presolana

Departure: Bergamo
Arrival: Castione della Presolana
Description: The banks of the river Serio have been recovered with careful work: the numerous rest areas, fountains, safe crossings and signs always present make this cycle a beautiful example of a "Greenway". The bottom of the cycle track is mainly beaten up to Casnigo, while it becomes asphalted in the northernmost part. The last stretch, from Ponte Nossa to Clusone, follows the route of the old disused railway in 1967, presenting slopes that are always moderate and easy to travel. The few tracts in promiscuity with vehicular traffic, do not present problems, as they are located on poorly frequented roads. Once you reach the urban center of Clusone, continue along the provincial road up to Castione della Presolana, point of arrival.
Distance: 45 km
Category: by bike
Recommended bicycle type: hybrid
Duration: 2,15 hours
Difference in height: 351 m
Downhill difference in height: 12 m
Maximum altitude: 600 m
Difficulty by bike: average
Paved: 40%
Dirt roads: 60%
Ciclability: 100%
On protected route: 78%
Signposting: Presente su tutto il percorso
Reccomanded period: in absence of snow

Route B - Giro del lago d'Iseo

Departure: Castione della Presolana
Arrival: Tour of Lake Iseo and Return to Castione della Presolana
Descrption: Tour with a low level of difficulty, on a road with little traffic, apart from the stretch from Lovere to Costa Volpino which requires a more demanding technical level. Wide stretches on cycle paths, especially between Pisogne and Paratico. Fascinating and panoramic the stretch between Toline and Vello along the bike path of the same name. On the return from Lovere to Castione della Presolana the route is all uphill (25 km), and therefore quite challenging from the point of view of sports preparation.
Distance: 106 km
Category: by bike
Reccomended bicycle type: Road Bike
Duration: 6,15 hours
Difference in height uphill: 1275 m
Downhill difference in height: 1276 m
Difficulty by bike: average
Paved: 100%
Ciclability: 100%
On protected route: 35%
Signposting: Present throughout the route
Reccomended period: in absence of snow

Route C - Passo del Vivione

Departure: Castione della Presolana
Arrival: Passo del Vivione and Return to Castione della Presolana
Description: Recommended tour for expert cyclists, lovers of gradients. The route includes the "scollinare" of Passo della Presolana, Borno, Vivione, with a spectacular descent to the city center of Schilpario and the return to Passo della Presolana. Difficulty high, unmissable sight on the Alps of the Orobie. Great sports training and high stamina required.
Distance: 110 km
Category: by bike
Recommended type of bicycle: Road Bike
Duration: 7,51 hours
Difference in height uphill: 3500 m
Downhill difference in height: 3500 m
Maximum altitude: 600 m
Difficulty by bike: high
Paved: 100%
Ciclability: 100%
Signposting: Present throughout the route
Raccomanded period: in absence of snow

For our customers who are passionate about cycling, we have created dedicated services to satisfy their specific needs that make our welcome pleasant and functional:

Workshop of 3 or 7 days with the guide of great road cycling champions, to learn the techniques of professionals, share the emotions with the protagonists of the cycling world and test themselves on shared parameters.
Sessions of theory and practice, with preparation and development in daily stages.

Luca Lanfranchi, won several important races such as the Grand Prix Community of Capodarco in 1988, the Giro delle Tre Provincie Toscane and the Cicogna Cup in 1989, the Giro del Medio Brenta in 1990 and the Grand Prix Pretola in 1992. Lanfranchi often concluded in the first fifteen places, the great stage races managed to hit a stage win in the Giro d'Italia 2000.

Ivan Gotti, a champion from Bergamo born in San Pellegrino Terme (BG), began his career at age 12, in 1996-1999: double success at the Giro d'Italia. In 1996, Gotti points to the Tour de France. The champion from Bergamo in preparation for the Giro d'Italia runs the Vuelta al País Vasco, the Giro del Trentino, the GP Gippingen and the Tour of Romandia. He did an encore two years later, thanks also to the exclusion from Marco Pantani's high hematocrit report, which at that moment was largely in the lead; Gotti managed however to detach his rival for the final victory Paolo Savoldelli in the stage of Aprica thanks to an action on the Mortirolo conducted together with the Spanish Roberto Heras and the Trentino climber Gilberto Simoni.

The Offer

• Theoretical and practical training course with the participation of an Italian cycling professional athlete
• Evening session of analysis results during daytime performance (timing, speed, technicalities, potential development)
• Preparation and planning of activities for the next day
• Audio-visual supports are provided during the workshops in a dedicated room at the Hotel Milano
• Overnight stay and sport breakfast (with balanced caloric intake)
• Energetic welcome in the afternoon after physical activity
• Lunch in hotel (with balanced caloric intake)
• Enogastronomic dinner
• Laundry service for sportswear
• Bicycle storage
• Small mechanical workshop
• Hydro-cleanser
• Card Hotel Milano for local food purchases
• Providing information materials on the routes (paper or via tablet application)
• Anti-fatigue path included at our Alpen SPA

To get in touch with the Italian excellence of the cycling world is an interesting experience for those who love this sport. The Hotel Milano offers the opportunity for visits and meetings organized with some of the Italian companies operating in the cycling world for technological innovation and research. Experiences told and illustrated directly by the company and its protagonists, world leaders of creativity and Italian passion.

For example, Scott, a company in Albino in the Province of Bergamo, world leader in the production of mountain bikes and e-bikes.
Bianchi in Treviglio (northern Italy), world leader in the production of road bikes, 125 years of passion for cycling.
Colnago in Milan (Northern Italy), founded by Ernesto Colnago, producer of the recent CF10, CF 12, E60, avant-garde models conceived for the 60th anniversary of activity and partner for the collaboration with Ferrari in the design of the lightest frames world.

Cycling enthusiasts are great sportsmen and like all sportsmen they need to keep themselves trained constantly. At the Hotel Milano the opportunity to do it every day:

• 1 hour of personal training for muscle toning
• 1 physiotherapy treatment dedicated to the needs of cyclists
• Gym equipped with modern equipment.