Cycling Puglia, a guided bike tour about local food, wine & traditions
Secret Puglia: out of the ordinary bike tours
A classic guided bike tour of Puglia transformed into an extraordinary gourmet cycling holiday, a bicycle trip of Southern Puglia to enjoy the best local food, wine and traditions of this unspoiled corner of Southern Italy.
Choose this bike tour of Puglia only if you are looking for something different and unique; for expensive but average bike tours there are plenty of not local companies to choose from.
Discovering Puglia by bike and throughout its finest wine and food its surely one of the most enjoyable way to experience a culture. Apulian culinary heritage offers endless possibility of gastronomical cycling explorations to enjoy and get to know the local culture and tradition in a new, unique and epicurean cycling vacation. Our guided bike tours of Apulia are a marvelous combination of field trips & gastronomic excursions, gourmet meals, hands on cookery lessons & practical demonstrations of how the local dishes are crafted, enriched by guided tasting sessions of selected local products with our expert somelier, chefs and confectioners.All our biking tours in Puglia will let you enjoy peaceful and leasure rides along back roads (except for some itineraries along the coast), no cars, no smog, just a cycling holiday among ancient olive groves, roman roads and Trulli, rural churches, dolmens and crypts that not all bicycle tours will let you see.
On this trip you will tour southern Puglia cycling trough charming old villages and stone walls, sleeping in luxury Masserie (old farm house) and tasting the best food and wine that Puglia can offer. You will meet the local and understand more about the Apulian culture and heritage. Professional sommeliers, chefs and artisan will follow you in this extraordinary discovery making this tour an unforgettable gourmet experience .
Cycling Puglia & Basilicata
Day 1 | Monopoli | start your marvellous journey through archaeology, history, art and food in a land of artists, shepherds, farmers and sailors with a ride to the Egnatia archaeological site Day 2 | Locorotondo | explore the land of trulli, where the old towns are like white sheets spread out to dry Day 3 | Ostuni | cycle the Itria valley with its suggestive itineraries and views, through green strips of green land with oaks, almonds, carobs and cherries Day 4 | Lecce & Gallipoli | discover Lecce and its Boroque architecture, churces and Palaces that make this city unique and fashinating Day 5 | Otranto | astonish your view and delight your sense with the local exquisite delicacies Day 6 | Otranto | cycle the adriatic coast through charming fishing villages, with its cristalline water, amazing rocky gardens and eclectic villas,
Hotels on this tour are subject to channge. Please ask for a detailed itinerary and program.
Trip details
| Meet | Depart: | Monopoli | Otranto |
| Trip Length: | 7 Days | 6 nights |
| Activity Level: | Easy van supported |
| Price Luxury: | from € 3300 $ 4350 |
| Price Casual: | from € 2350 $ 3050 |
| Daily Rides: | 20 to 60k with 100k options |
| Departures: | all departures are guaranteed with even 2 participants |
Dates & price 2012
Trip highlights
- Introduction to the local food & culture
- Exclusive luxury hotels
- personalized service
- Breathtaking coastal rides landscapes and sceneries
- Guifded food and wine tastings with local experts and producers
This trip includes
- accommodation & breakfast
- gourmet dinners
- cooking classes, wine & food tasting
- free use of hybride bikes and instruction
- Van support & luggage transfers
- Knowledge and support of our guides
- private Cultural tours
- extra surprice Please enquiry to get the complete inclusion list
Bike Puglia trip's map
Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa
The Hotels on the Puglia bike tour
Not included
- Flight & insurance
- Tips, gratuities and everything not mentioned within the what is included list
Matera 2 days extension from € 290 $ 390
- Those desirous to visit Matera can spend 2 extra days in the town of stones before joning the tour in Fasano
- includes: transfer Bari > Matera > Monopoli
- 2 nights accommodation & Breakfast private cultural tour of Matera
Lecce 2 days extension
- Spend 2 extra days in Lecce to enjoy the baroque and the local life -
- Charming B&B from € 160
- 4*/5* hotel from € 250
- includes:
- 2 nights accommodation & Breakfast 1 dinner at selected local restaurant


