Cycle Touring in Spain: Eight Detailed Routes Book

With an agreeable climate, Western Europe's greatest wilderness areas, unmatched flora and fauna, a history stretching back beyond civilisation, Spain, with its friendly people and readily available accommodation, makes an outstanding destination for the cycle tourist.This guide contains the practical information needed by cyclists, including when and where to go, how to get there, how to get around, accommodation, passports, visas and insurance, money and banks, bicycle considerations, living on the road and points of arrival.Eight routes are described in detail along with maps, profiles and accommodation lists. They vary in suitability for novice through to keen cyclists, and are described in five to twelve daily stages with options to shorten, extend or go off road as the cyclist wishes. The routes include the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa in the north, through the Sierras of Demanda, Gredos and Guadarrama in the centre, to the Sierras of Nevada and Grazalema and the Serranía de Ronda in the south and visit the cities of Ávila, Córdoba, Bilbao, Madrid, Málaga, San Sebastián, Segovia and Sevilla.