Salento Bike Tour
10% discount on packages for guided trips, excursions and self-guided trips
Why precisely choose Salento Bici Tour for your own cycling vacation in southern Italy?
The beautiful season , which starts in March and ends in November, the almost completely flat terrain (ideal terrain for families or for those who are at their first experience of traveling by bicycle), the sea always at a stone's throw, the many things to see... and to taste, make Salento the ideal place to go cycling.
Mediterranean cuisine, good Negroamaro wine, a beautiful sunset over the sea are good reasons to choose a destination... but it is something you can also find elsewhere or with other Tour Operators. We offer you (also) more: not only places and flavors, but also - and above all - people.
As you travel with us, you will meet the baker who grows an ancient variety of wheat to knead his baked goods, The restaurateur who is passionate about Mediterranean cuisine, The former economist farmer who decided to leave the world of finance to farm the land, The college graduate who decided to become a craftsman to recover an ancient art.
Passion animates us: we are a group of young people who decided to return to our homeland, to dedicate ourselves to the harmonious development of the area and to host travelers from all over the world in our home. We know our territory thoroughly and we want to let you discover it in the best way possible: walking and cycling.
Salento bike tour is first and foremost a project that is concerned with environmental education, spreading the use of bicycles among the local population, and making everyone - locals and travelers - think about the model of civilization in which we live.
For us it is a way to be in the world, to say who we are, to meet other worlds. We hope you will share it with us, if only for a few days.
Our progress is slow but deliberate.
We are a social cooperative-tour operator, a network of individuals and associations in Italy and around the world. Our story began in the late 1990s, when a handful of people began to question the meaning of mass tourism. Traveling and getting to know projects related to fair trade gave birth to the idea of starting a social enterprise that would disrupt the paradigms of tourism and work in direct contact with the civil society of the places visited, with people and associations directly involved in development projects.