1st day: Arrival in Italy Milan MXP - Varese (Km 40)
Landing at the Milan Malpensa Airport and meeting with our tour leader. A short walk to the near Volandia (The Museum of Flying) to meet your tourist guide and luggage loading onto a minivan/complimentary bus. Welcome aperitif with typical local products and briefing about how to use your electric pedal-assisted bicycle and the route you will have to cover. Transfer by bike towards Varese. En route, you can admire some of the outstanding monuments in the area and you can enjoy the breath-taking view of the Lake of Varese. The end of our tour is made up of a comfortable and safe cycle-pedestrian track. Arrival and accommodation in the selected hotel, in the booked rooms in the late afternoon. Evening: dinner and overnight at the hotel.
2nd day: The Lake of Varese The Lake of Monate - The Lake of Comabbio - Varese (Km 60)
Morning: buffet breakfast at the hotel. At 9:30 meeting with your guide and departure for the Lake of Varese. At the beginning, the route winds along the lake shore opposite the one you covered yesterday. Not far from Biandronno, you will leave the cycle-pedestrian track and, along a not very busy road, you will get quite near the Lake of Monate, a small but charming bathing water sheet, surrounded by gentle hills. Lunch: possibility to have lunch at a local restaurant. Afternoon: cycling along not busy roads, on to Angera, an important tourist resort on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore. Stopover at a farmhouse for a good local wine tasting. Cycling towards the Lake of Comabbio. You will pedal along the comfortable cycle-pedestrian track; from here another connecting dirt road lets you return to Varese, pedaling along the track around the lake. Evening: dinner and overnight at the hotel.
3rd day: Varese Santa Maria del Monte Varese (Km 25) Morning: buffet breakfast at the hotel. At 9:30 meeting with your guide and departure for the Sacro Monte of Varese, since 2003 as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The itinerary, which climbs the mountain for a difference in a 300 metre height, leads to its top, after a pleasant itinerary of some kilometres. Back to Varese. Lunch: possibility to have lunch at a local restaurant.
Afternoon: time at your leisure for individual visits or shopping. Evening: dinner and overnight at the hotel.
4th day: Departure Morning: buffet breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport.