With their consecration to the cycling tradition, its values and its extraordinary power to evoke strength, willpower and determination, Imola and Emilia-Romagna have forever been the land of cycling.
Emilia-Romagna is and has been a true cycling region. It is the birthplace of great champions such as Ercole Baldini and Marco Pantani not to mention Vittorio Adorni. Some very prestigious races as well as some of Europe’s most famous Granfondo events take place here. The positive trend has data to confirm it: 500,000 bike tourist arrivals for an overall number of approximately 1.5 million visitors, hundreds of bike hotels and 8,000 km of bike routes for both road and mountain bike lovers.