Meet your tour guides at Venice Marco Polo airport and get your tour off to a relaxed start. 

Our head guide, Giro d’Italia stage winner Andrea Ferrigato, and the Sportive Breaks team, will be at the airport awaiting your arrival. Our transfer will then leave the airport at 12.00pm. Please ensure that you arrive in plenty of time before our departure time.

Group transfer details here – Link

Bikes

If you are travelling with your own bike, then we will transport your bike and bike box or bag for the duration of the tour. When we move to the next hotel, there’s no need to re-pack your bike. Alternatively, we also offer bike rental for the duration of the tour. Bikes can be stored at the hotel.

This afternoon and early evening, our tour leaders and bike mechanics are available to help you.

Guided Warm Up Ride

This afternoon Andrea will offer an optional guided bike ride in this beautiful area. The hotel’s proximity to the lake offers a great opportunity to discover the area by bike.

Later this evening we will gather for dinner together at the hotel restaurant. After dinner you are free to head into town to explore.

Join us on a guided and supported ride in the area. Our hotel is located on the shores of Lake Garda. This is a beautiful part of Italy with lots of great roads to explore.

We offer a warm up ride along the lake with a coffee break in Peschiera del Garda and return to the hotel.

To end the day we invite you to explore the hotel and its surroundings. This is a beautiful area with lots to explore.

It’s our first encounter with LIVE Giro action today. We offer a guided ride to Desenzano del Garda from our hotel. 

Once there, we will have a great experience for both cyclists and spectators. Our status as official Giro d’Italia Tour Operator gives us access to official Giro Hospitality.

Finish hospitality offers a superb vantage point along the finish straight. Non-stop catering and open bar service are included. Plasma TV screens broadcast the race until the riders come into view live.

After the stage we will head back to the hotel for dinner.

Early start this morning as we leave Garda for the next stop on our tour; Bormio. The transfer will take about 3.5 hours.

The stage finish is in Livigno today, located 22 miles from Bormio.

Depending on the weather we offer two options today:

1. Transfer to Aprica for two hours then ride to Livigno where we wait for the arrival of the riders
2. Ride from Bormio to Tirano and Passo Foscagno to Livigno

After the stage finish we will take you to our hotel in Bormio where we will stay one night.

As the riders enjoy their rest day in Livigno, we will ride the famous Passo Stelvio today. We will ride from Bormio to Merano and then transfer to Badia.

We expect to get to the hotel just before dinner.

After breakfast we guide you around one of Europe’s most beautiful routes. We will ride the Sella Ronda Loop to the finish line of today’s Giro stage in Cristina di Val Gardena.

Cross the Finish Experience

Feel like a pro for the day and cross under the official finish line of an actual Giro stage. We will guide you over the final miles of the stage and you will cross under the finish line before we take photos on the winner’s podium.

Finish Hospitality

Finish hospitality offers a superb vantage point along the finish straight. Non-stop catering and open bar service are included. Plasma TV screens broadcast the race until the riders come into view live.

After watching the riders finish, we will transfer back to our hotel in Alta Badia.

Ride from Alta Badia to Passo Brocon in time for the arrival of today’s Giro stage.

Finish Hospitality

Finish hospitality offers a superb vantage point along the finish straight. Non-stop catering and open bar service are included. Plasma TV screens broadcast the race until the riders come into view live.

After the stage we will transfer to the next hotel on our tour in Feltre. Here we stay on a bed and breakfast basis to allow you to eat out the next couple of nights.

Today we will enjoy the start of the Giro in Fiera di Primiero from the Start Village.

Start Village

Every day, in the start town, the Start Village offers a VIP Area at the start. Guests watch the riders get ready and witness the sign-on ceremony while enjoying drinks and snacks.

Our daily ride will take us from Feltre to Fiera di Primiero and back.

This evening you are free to go out for dinner.

Ride from Feltre to Bassano del Grappa. There is an amazing bike path along the valley. We will then ride the Foza Climb, ride on the Asiago plateau, and down to Bassano for a typical spritz on the Alpini bridge.

Decisive stage of the Giro if there are close gaps in the GC. After a rather flat approach featuring the Muro di Ca’ del Poggio, the riders will climb the Monte Grappa twice, both from the Semonzo side. After the second descent, the race continues straight to the finish.

We will ride Monte Grappa today ahead of the riders and enjoy watching the decisive stage of the 2024 Giro d’Italia from the roadside. We are close to Andrea’s home today so we will have a party to celebrate the days we have spent together on our Giro tour.

In the evening, we’ll enjoy our final dinner together. Our team is available to assist you with packing bikes away for travel tomorrow.

As we bid you farewell, we will offer airport transfers to Venice Airport. 

Today’s final Giro stage in Rome is far away. It will give the riders a transfer by plane to get to Rome. 

We offer two options today:

1. Rome extension. Transfer to Venice Train station and train to Rome. One night stay at Hotel Mediterraneo in Rome.
2. Departure from Venice airport

Transfer and transport options here – Link

Stage 21 in Rome

The 2024 Giro d’Italia winner will be crowned after a sprint stage on the uncomfortable roads of Rome. The setting could not be more iconic with the Fori Imperiali ruins and the Colosseum as a backdrop.