DUE RUOTE NEL VENTO, PIEDMONT

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We are a tour operator and an organization specialized in routes and trips with bicycle. We started in the 80’s and during these years we have developed a great experience linked, also, to the “Italian Federation Friends of Bicycle” (FIAB), an association which works in the field of the environmental volunteering. 

Our "mission" is to promote the sustainable and ecological tourism.

Since 1998, we organize trips with bicycle, ski tours, and outdoor activities as hiking and tours with roller skates. We rent bicycles and we have more than 250 tours for 26 different countries in our catalogue.

Our tours are suitable for everybody, without any age’s limit and even for families with children; the selection of the tours arises from a careful research of safe routes - surrounded by beautiful and natural landscapes and ennobled by little or great historical and artistic treasures-, with the possibility to rent bikes for tourism, to stay in quality hotels, with the maximum of security, the luggage’s transport and the travel’s assistance.

Our offer ranges from an half day or entire day short trips, to one-week tour, from individual journey in total freedom to trips organized with the guide, as well as from tours organized in the charming northern Europe to the warm Mediterranean, including Italy that, seen from the bicycle’s saddle, will surely appear as completely new and unusual. 

We also offer bike + boat trips, bike + ship + wellness journey, gastronomic tours and personal, tailor-made trips; least but not last, we promote programs for schools which include cultural excursions in the local territory and mobility’s courses.

Travelling with bicycle, by riding with slow rhythms and by following easy pathways, which in most cases do not exceed 50-60 km per day, means to avoiding the dethatched, rushed and often superficial travelling by bus or car. It means, in addition, to recreate a more real dimension, close to the nature, and to perceive smells and sounds, to feel fresh air on the face and to exchange a glances with the other people.

Those who have tried these feelings are no longer able to renounce.

ROME FOR YOU, LAZIO

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The love and the admiration for our city, has brought us to create an organization with the aim of offering to travellers a new face of the city, authentic and genuine at the same time.

In order to visit a city like Rome – where history becomes experiencable in multiple layers, the urban tissue is a labyrinth composed by little streets and alleys, where behind every corner a picturesque glimpse or a real artwork is hidden – it is not convenient to use crowded touristic buses, but agile and light vehicles with even a scent of antiquity.

Using a romantic old Vespa, or a robust and practical mountain bike or, why not, walking with our own legs, will allow us to dive into this beautiful capital, as long as we can feel its millennial and immortal breath. Experienced guides will make you feel as a real Roman and they will transform your visit into an unforgettable and unique experience.

We have studied pathways which are far away from the busy streets and are able to offer a complete image of the city by crossing and admiring the most picturesque and singular places in Rome.

The cycling tours are marked by a leisurely rhythm that increases the pleasure of every ride and allows to catch small but important details. Breaks for testing a delicious white pizza or a refreshing coffee in one of the typical bars frequented every day by the locals will not be missed.

Our proposals do not exclude the suburban Rome, the Roman countryside with its harmonic aspects and where the time seems to have stopped by disseminating its wonderful signs (catacombs, aqueducts, ancient tombs and patrician villas).

You also get in touch with the Castelli Romani’s area, which is the famous destination for outdoor excursions. In these places the nature, the culture and the cuisine compete in order to gratify who, accompanied by experts of mountain biking, is willing to "make just a little effort”.

DROGHERIA BUONCONSIGLIO, ABRUZZI

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The Drogheria Buonconconsiglio arises from a project of three young men passionate about gastronomy and with the desire of sharing this passion by proposing and serving a fine selection of products which displays the large bandwidth of Italian gastronomy.  

In order to preserve the gastronomical heritage of the entire cultural landscape of Italy, the Drogheria is home to an offering of delicacies, which result exclusively from an artisan and biological production.

Our products are selected among the country’s best artisans and distributors. As a result we propose a wide range of cheese, mainly raw-milk cheese and coming from local production. The choice of wine is based on labels which solely originate from biodynamic production and, therefore, without any addition of sulfur. The same criterion leads the selection of our beer: we propose only homemade, not pasteurized and lively  beer.   

As a result of our steady presence in gastronomy fairs as well as regular encounters with  artisans and producers, we have built a small network of “producer- friends”,  with whom we are collaborating – and, above all, it is our constant endeavor to keep at a high level the service that we offer to our “customer-friends”.

The synergic participation - which involves producers, ourselves and above all the customer who frequents the Drogheria Buonconsiglio - is what we consider as the most important part of our work and it is our greatest satisfaction and gratification to allow for this encounter and exchange. At the same time, the special relationship with our costumers constantly motivates us to improve and to discover new delicacies to propose in our store.

Our ambition for the future is to become an important point of reference for our customers and a place entirely dedicated to the education and enhancement in the field of gastronomy

IL NIBBIO, CALABRIA

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A cluster of houses around a Norman Castle, this complex assumes the form of a village with all its structural and architectural characteristics. It comes back to life after years of complete abandon. 

The Nature Centre we call the ‘Nibbio’ (the Kite) comes into being. In continuous development the village now consists of fifteen buildings, each of which with its own particular function within the whole, so that all are interrelated.

Thus it becomes possible to achieve a full immersion in the Pollino range Flora and Fauna in a visit to this Nature Museum, a living laboratory for studying and teaching Nature. Numerous houses have been reconstructed with enormous care for detail, with simple furnishings, authentic testimony to a dignified country tradition, in a typical Neighbourhood. 

Visitors are enabled to participate in the many activities connected with the diffusion of a Southern Italian New Cuisine which aims at evaluating to the full Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge (IK). Its function is to recuperate and repropose old-fashioned tastes and flavors within a new form of creativity capable of adding significant variety which will catalyze attention on the long history of food. Classical craftsmen’s ‘botteghe’ are also present. 

They constitute a real and genuine example of village craftsmanship. It is not a money-making project and visitors are made aware that their contribution to a stay at the Nibbio Centre is an intrinsic part of a socially relevant project.