Some roads are meant to be raced, while others invite us to slow down, take in our surroundings and explore. What connects them is Italy itself: a rich heritage of landscapes, villages, culture and traditions that the Giro d’Italia and Giro d’Italia Women aim to showcase and promote through the extraordinary storytelling power of cycling.

From Race Routes to Spiritual Trails

A special chapter of this journey is dedicated to Italy’s spiritual trails, which embody a slower, more sustainable way of travelling, combining faith and spirituality with nature, history and culture. During the presentation of the Giro d’Italia and Giro d’Italia Women routes, we had the opportunity to showcase 35 of Italy’s best-known pilgrimage routes, covering a total of more than 15,000 kilometres, which can be explored on foot and, along certain sections, also by bicycle. This heritage offers a different way of travelling through Italy and discovering the country.

Four major pilgrimage routes feature prominently in this initiative: the Via Francigena, Via Romea Strata, Way of St Francis and Way of St Benedict.
Although each follows a different path, they all offer the opportunity to discover and experience Italy at a slower pace, where landscapes, cultural heritage and spirituality come together.
It is the very same Italy that the Giro d’Italia and Giro d’Italia Women explore on two wheels: two different ways of travelling, one extraordinary country to discover and celebrate