There’s a reason so many professional cyclists call Girona home. Tucked between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean, this medieval Catalan city sits at the center of a web of quiet, world-class roads, and within ten minutes of leaving the house the traffic is gone and you’re climbing into farmland, forest, and foothills.

This is a week spent riding where the pros ride. You’ll test yourself on Rocacorba, spin out to the Costa Brava for cliff-top roads and sea-view descents, and climb Els Àngels straight from the city before dropping back into town for a cortado in the same squares the pros do. We ride gravel bikes all week, because the best of Girona is off the main roads, and the forest tracks of the Guilleries are where a Girona tour stops feeling like a Girona vacation.

Two working coaches ride with you all week. We’ll get a read on where your legs are, build each day’s options around the riders who actually signed up, and help you choose the version of the route that suits you, so nobody spends the week hanging on or holding back.

Home for the week is Can Martinoy, a Catalan farmhouse with a pool and the forest at its back, a ten-minute walk from the old town. You get quiet nights at the house and an easy stroll into the Barri Vell, where the cathedral steps, the colored houses on the Onyar and the café terraces of Plaça de la Independència are waiting after the ride, along with long lunches, good coffee, Catalan wine and a working cycling culture that isn’t putting on a show for tourists.

One farmhouse, seven nights, six days of riding. Can Martinoy sits just outside Girona with the Gavarres at its back, which means we never change beds and never ride the same road twice. West and south is forest, where the gravel tracks of the Guilleries climb toward Sant Hilari. North is Banyoles and the reservoir, with Rocacorba standing over it. East is the Costa Brava, close enough to be out and back in a day with lunch by the water.

We ride gravel bikes all week, because the best of Girona is not on the main roads. That does not mean every day is a gravel day. Half the week runs on the same quiet tarmac the pros train on, and the bike just means you can turn off whenever the track looks better than the road.

Every ride has a long and a short version, and two working coaches are out there with you, reading the group and helping you pick the version that makes sense for your legs that morning. Midweek there is a half day on purpose, home by early afternoon with the rest of it yours. We take the whole house: a pool, a forest behind it, and the old town ten minutes away on foot when you want dinner out.

This is the first week of June, which in Catalonia is the good window. The countryside is still green before the summer burns it off, the coast has not filled up yet, and the light runs until nine at night.

Day 1 | Saturday 5 June 2027

Arrival in Girona

We’ll shuttle you from the airport to our home base in Girona and get everyone settled.

Then we ride. Straight out the back door onto the Ter and the Bonmatí loop, mostly flat, about a third of it on smooth gravel, easy pace the whole way. Just enough to shake off the flight and remember why you came.

Arrival Window: Midday
Activity: Airport pickup, lodging check-in, shakeout ride
Today’s Ride: Bonmatí Loop, 26 mi / 975 ft, 38% unpaved
Evening: Welcome briefing and dinner

Day 2 | Sunday 6 June 2027

Banyoles and the Rocacorba

North out of Girona on quiet mixed surface to the Banyoles reservoir, with a long coffee on the water before the farm tracks home. Rolling, unhurried, and the day your legs figure out what week this is going to be.

From Banyoles, the road to Rocacorba goes up. Ten and a half kilometers averaging 7%, the steep ramps saved for the top, the reservoir opening up below you. It’s the climb the Girona pros use to test their form, and there’s no rhythm to hide in. Ride it at your own number or sit in the sun and watch other people suffer. Both are correct.

Activity: Mixed-surface endurance, optional signature climb
Today’s Ride: Banyoles Loop, 37 mi / 2,000 ft, or 50 mi / 4,800 ft with Rocacorba
Surfaces: Road and gravel
Evening: Dinner in the old town

Day 3 | Monday 7 June 2027

Els Àngels and an Afternoon in Girona

The classic Girona opener, and a half day on purpose. An easy roll out of the old town into farmland, then the steady grind up to the Els Àngels sanctuary, the coffee ride every pro in town cuts their teeth on. Café at the top, then down.

Home by early afternoon with the rest of the day yours. Anyone who wants more can pick up the Carrilet greenway at the bottom of the descent and add flat rail-trail gravel on the way back. Everyone else gets Girona: the Onyar houses, the cathedral steps, La Fábrica, a long lunch, a nap.

Activity: Road climb, short day
Today’s Ride: Els Àngels Half Day, 25 mi / 1,600 ft, plus optional 12 mi gravel add-on
Surfaces: Road, gravel on the add-on
Afternoon: Free in Girona

Day 4 | Tuesday 8 June 2027

Dirty Hilari

The real gravel day. Southwest into the Guilleries toward Sant Hilari Sacalm on the forest tracks that made this a gravel destination before anyone called it one. Long climbs, loose descents, almost no cars, and the kind of quiet you only get an hour from a city.

Two distances, same roads, same lunch. Pick at the start or pick at Sant Hilari. This is the day that separates a Girona tour from a Girona vacation.

Activity: Big gravel day
Today’s Ride: Dirty Hilari, 50 mi / 4,500 ft, or 82 mi / 7,700 ft
Surfaces: Mostly unpaved
Evening: Dinner at the house

Day 5 | Wednesday 9 June 2027

Costa Brava to the Sea

South out of Girona through Cassà and Llagostera, then up Sant Grau. The gradient builds slowly over ten kilometers through woodland, a few ramps to 11%, and then you crest it and the Mediterranean opens up underneath you on a fast, twisting descent to the coast.

Lunch at Sant Feliu de Guíxols with your feet near the water. Go long…OR…take the option to come home on the Carrilet, the old cork railway, flat packed gravel the whole way back to Girona. The most scenic day of the week and the kindest ending.

Activity: Coastal day
Today’s Ride: Costa Brava and Sant Grau, 50 mi / 3,500 ft
Surfaces: Road out, optional gravel greenway home
Evening: Dinner in Girona

Day 6 | Thursday 10 June 2027

Mare de Déu del Mont

The queen stage. North through Besalú and its eleventh-century bridge, then twenty kilometers of steady climbing to the hermitage at the summit, the Pyrenees filling the horizon and half of Catalonia laid out behind you. The descent is the reward and it lasts a long time.

Fuel well, pace it patiently, earn it. The shorter version starts at Besalú and skips the flat approach, which is the smart ride, not the lesser one.

Activity: Queen stage
Today’s Ride: Mare de Déu del Mont, 37 mi / 5,000 ft from Besalú, or 68 mi / 6,500 ft from Girona
Surfaces: Road
Evening: Final dinner

Day 7 | Friday 11 June 2027

Villages Farewell Loop

A relaxed send-off east of Girona through Madremanya, Monells and Els Metges, storybook villages on quiet lanes and easy gravel. Rolling, unhurried, built around a café stop that runs longer than it should.

Spin the legs out, take the photographs, start lying about how hard Monday was. Home early enough to pack without rushing.

Activity: Recovery loop
Today’s Ride: Villages Farewell Loop, 37 mi / 2,000 ft
Surfaces: Road and gravel
Evening: Last night in Girona

Day 8 | Sunday 26 September

Departure

Last breakfast at the house, and the bikes go back instead of out the gate, which is the only part of the week nobody enjoys. Take a minute on the terrace before you go. Somebody will bring up the Rocacorba numbers again, somebody else will insist the forest tracks above Sant Hilari were the best day, and the Costa Brava descent will come up whether or not anyone rode it fast.

That is how a week like this ends. You came for the roads the pros ride, and you will leave with those, but what people actually carry home is the group they rode with and the ordinary bits in between, the cortado at Els Àngels, the long lunch by the water at Sant Feliu, the last easy spin through Madremanya when the pressure was off.

Shuttles run to Girona train station and Girona airport through the morning. If you are flying out of Barcelona, we will help you work out the train or a private car, though the booking stays yours to make. Tell us your flight time as early as you can and we will build the morning around it.

Adéu, and bona ruta. The roads will still be here, and so will we.

Routes are subject to change based on weather and road conditions. High passes can close on short notice, and we will always ride the safest option available on the day.