Summary

Take in three countries in one week by bicycle. See the very best of Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Witness varying and unique mountain scenery; untouched natural landscapes; crystal clear lakes; vineyards set against soft hillsides; the ideal backdrop for an exciting road biking holiday. Your efforts will be rewarded with the regional culinary delights accompanied by the local wine. A spectacular final stage brings you along the Adriatic coastline to Trieste, formerly the harbour city of the Habsburg Empire.

Highlights and places of interest along the route

• The picturesque mountainous backdrop of the South and East Tyrolean Dolomites
• The various stages along the Alta Pusteria panoramic road
• The sunshine city Lienz, capital of Eastern Tyrol
• Lake Pressegger
• The Italian border town of Tarvis
• Bled and Lake Bled in Slovenia
• Untouched natural landscapes of Slovenia
• Triglav Nationalpark
• The Collio, a well-known wine region in Friaul
• Cividale del Friuli, a medieval town of the Lombard’s settled by a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe
• Cormons
• Castle Miramare on the Adriatic
• Trieste, formerly under the Habsburg realm