Archeobike

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Archeobike

Visits to sites, caves, towers, watchtowers, monasteries, Roman roads... Arqueobike is doing Archeology by bicycle. We approach the vestiges of other times in today's settings, we visit interpretation centers and museums. Through a bike tour, we explore and discover the material remains of a long time past. And whenever we can, we will share the route with expert archaeologists, or neighbors living in the area, who will help us better size the ruins and their findings.

Menhir the Bighead

Unknown Cantabria

This is a 2 days-ride, circular route, easy, for beginners, that can be done as a family to ride on the valley of the Camesa river, a very unknown part of Cantabria. While pedaling we will learn from the first human efforts to tame Nature...
The optical telegraphy tower of Arganda

The optical telegraphs of Madrid by bike

These are a couple of circular pedals, one day, one for moderate cyclists and another for intermediate cyclists, which will take us to know the towers of the optical telegraph that was developed in Spain in the mid-19th century. The first...
The failed El Gasco dam

The El Gasco dam

This is a linear route, with a fun half day, for beginners who want to put their bike handling to the test, with slides, ramps, narrow passages and some compromising steps. We are going to visit the El Gasco dam, the first scene of an...
Zugarramurdi´s cave. Image courtesy of Marco Ordiñana.

The witchcraft route

This is a 4-days, circular route, for moderate cyclists, that runs through the beautiful mountains and caves of the Navarrese Pyrenees, crossing the scenarios where superstition and fear persecuted women and men accusing them of witchcraft and...
Vozmediano castle and Moncayo peak

Antonino´s Way on bike

This is a 4-days ride, two easy and two harder, linear route, for moderate cyclists, that runs through the Soria Water Natural Way, or Antonino´s Way. The route starts in the Castilian highlands, in Soria, on the banks of the Douro river...
Wolf shelters in Caleruega

On bike by the Ribera del Duero monasteries

This is a 3-day, circular route, for initiates or beginners with good condition, that begins and ends in Aranda de Duero, and runs through the most important monasteries of the area, prominent monastic centers at different times: the Royal...
Las Medulas from the Orellan viewpoint

Las Medulas and the Aquilianos mountains on bike

This is a 3-days, circular route, also extensible to a week, for cyclists with fight desires a good itinerary of long climbs and explosive ramps. Within the emblematic region of the Bierzo, we start in his capital city, Ponferrada, and...
The Alcarria landscape of Cuenca

The Crystal of Hispania

This is linear, 5-days route for intermediate cyclists, and above all, for lovers of the Roman culture, because it runs on bike the GR-163, or Route of the Crystal of Hispania. The itinerary goes all along dirty roads  in better or...
La Arboleda and behind the Triano mountains

The iron mountains of Bizkaia

This is a short but demanding route for advanced cyclists, that leads us through the Enkarterri, to learn about the iron mining landscape, so important in this area just a few years ago. Leaving Bilbo, we will arrived by train at...
Riding on the bike lane

The Iron mountains greenway

This is an easy one-day route for initiated cyclists, that takes us through the Enkarterri, the Encartaciones, to get up close to the iron mining landscape, which was so important in this area until a few years ago. Leaving Bilbao by...