Veloce and That’s Amore brands, fast bike rental services, excursions and cycling holidays: HOLIDAYS

Our company arrange year-round exclusive customizable week-end vacations and 7 days cycling holidays in whole Italian country.

Our vacations can have more cycling possibilities : short and easier route and a longer or more demanding route for the keener cyclists, self and guided, with or without logistics support.

Packages can be customized and created by our company under feature of every season and exigences of the clients.

We can supply our services for individual customer and groups, including transfers of people and/or luggages, team car on the road, guides, customized routes and accommodation selections.

Our company is leader in interstate cycling holidays between Italy and adjoining states.

We help our customers to create for free customized itineraries for self holidays, find best roads and accommodations.

With our GPS Navigator Garmin Edge 800 - including preloaded topographic cartography, pedestrian and cycling routes of whole Europe - customer can use the GPS like the normal navigator to find European cycling roads entering the next travel destination city, accommodation addresses or enjoy preloaded itineraries created at home before leave to cycling excursions.

Few example/suggestions of self cycling holidays in Italy and between European states or vice versa enjoyed by our customers : from Marseille to Genoa, from Milan to Venice, from Munich (Germany) to Venice, from Venice to Porec (Croatia) and back by boat, from Venice to Pise, from Trieste to Udine, from Pise to Rome, from Naples to Palermo, Apulia tour, from Bologna to Offida (Marche region), ecc, ecc.

FROM MARSEILLE TO GENOA

self cycling holidays France to Italy

cycle sightseein in Marseille day before start cycling travel to Genova

Garmin Edge 800, GPS Navigator for self cycling holiday

ready to start self cycling vacation to from Marseille to Genova

riding to Toulon direction

the panoramic road from Marseille to Toulon

other cyclist on panoramic road from Marseille to Toulon

SET OF ITALIAN CINEMA CYCLING HOLIDAYS

cycling holidays in Sicily

This movie set tours is an holisay developed in 7 days with transfer from/to Palermo and Catania airports to local rural resort in Piano San Paolo, close the town of Caltagirone where at the arrival is possible choose for the dinner between jazz performances and wine tasting classes. The holiday can be customized under training, necessities ad interests of customer and include daily excursions in most beautiful places of Sicily.

Scoglitti along the south coast of Sicily with archaeological museom of Kamarina with the opportunity to swim and east on the beach at the end of cycling tour. Our customers can wait on the beach fishermen boats and buy with the organization fresh fish that will be eat during the dinner.

The cycling holiday include trekking and/or off road mtb excursions inside the naturalistic reserve of San Pietro di Caltagirone, a forest of great extent characterized by secular cork trees in pigs and wild boars.

This services are available also for self holidays : our company can support customers to plan customized routes and select best accommodations on budget.

Services available also in overseas countries : Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, France, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany and along Eurovelo routes.

Self or guided cycling holidays suggested by our company : from Marseille to Genova, from Venice to Milan, from Venice to Rijeka (Croatia), from Naples to Palermo, from Naples to Bari, from Barcelona to Florence, from Munich (Germany) to Venice, from Pisa to Rome, ecc. ecc.

Our company can help customers to create self cycling vacations, build routes and select best accommodations.

For self cycling travels we suggest to rent from us the GPS Navigator Garmin Edge 800 including preloaded topographic cartography, pedestrian and cycling routes of whole Europe with opportunity to create at your home customized itineraries. Customer can use the GPS like the normal navigator to find European cycling roads entering the next travel destination city, accommodation addresses or enjoy preloaded itineraries.

the offroad mtb excursion on the San Pietro di Caltagirone forest

For keaner cyclists is possible climb with full carbon road bikes the Etna volcano from Nicolosi to the 3,342 meters on sea level with stop at the Rifugio and descent on the other side to Santa Venerina village where we will stop at the most ancient confectionery, Russo since 1880, where we will taste Pasta di Mandorle sweet produced with original receipt.

the Etna Volcano climbing excursion for keaner cyclists

Cinema set excursions includes :

- the Inspector Salvo Montalbano places, most beautiful set locations of serial TV episodes, like the home on the beach, the Donnafugata castle, the old town of Ragusa Ibla and the lighthouse of Punta Secca.

the Salvo Montalbano home on the beach

- Vizzini village where will show film places of the major blockbusters, including "La Terra Trema" by Luchino Visconti (1948), "La Lupa" by A. Lattuada (1953), "Mastro Don Gesualdo", written in 6 episodes for the TV and directed by Giacomo Vaccari (1964), "The Lover Radish" by Carlo Lizzani, "Cavalleria Rusticana" (1984) and "History of a Capinera "(1994) by Franco Zeffirelli," La Lupa "by Gabriele Lavia (1996). All this films represented works of the Italian realist writer Giovanni Verga.

Vizzini village, view from the road

Very nice the museum of Giovanni Verga where is possible watch some curiosity like the undiscovered side of this writer, the passion for the photography. Inside the museum is possible watch pictures and cameras of the end of 1800 and developing photographic material buyed in Paris at the store of french filmmaker Auguste and Louis Lumiere.

Cavalleria Rusticana, theater on the movie places of Vizzini village

This cycling holiday will be closed with cycling tour of Caltagirone village famous for his stair, ceramic and crib arts.

On demand will be possible arrange cycling excursion to the "castle of slaves" in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, when on 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini have maked the "L'orgia" movie and Francis Ford Coppola maked the unforgettable explosion of car, after the wedding, in "Il Padrino", blockbuster and winner of Oscar, Golden Globes and David di Donatello, with the part I (1972) and the part II (1974).

BASILICATA COAST TO COAST

The cycling holiday from the east to the west coast of Basilicata region, from Matera to Maratea along the naturalistic hinterland of this region.

Matera village, the Mel Gibson Passion of Christ" set movie

West coast of Basilicata region, the end of the cycling expedition

In Matera can be possible visit places where was maked on 1964 by Pier Paolo Pasolini the “Vangelo secondo Matteo” and on 1985 by richard Gere "the King David” over the “Passion of Chrsit” by Mel Gibson maked on 2002. Over this sets is possible visits places of other italian productions like “Allonsanfan” with Marcello Mastroianni and "C’era una volta” with Sophia Loren, ecc. ecc.

CAMPANIA REGION

Campania region include a lot of sets, we will show to our customers places where was maked the "Passione" by John Turturro, written by Federico Vacalebre, the famous "Ricomincio da Tre" by Massimo Troisi, the "Mistero di Bellavista" by Luciano de Crescenzo and sets of tv version of "Sabato, Domenica e Lunedi" by Eduardo De Filippo directed by Lina Wertmuller with the great Sophia Loren, Pupella Maggio, Luca de Filippo and Luciano De Crescenzo or the Solfatara active volcano where was maked a scene of "47 morto che parla" with Antonio De Curtis, Totò.