Cycling

The most ridden long-distance cycle route in Europe and the template every other one copies.

The 21 numbered hairpins — the Tour de France's most famous climb, ridden daily all summer.

The Ronde cyclosportive — cobbled bergs and the brutal Koppenberg, ridden by 16,000 amateurs.

The Route des Grandes Alpes: 700 kilometres and sixteen passes from Lake Geneva to the sea.

Sa Calobra and Cap de Formentor — the Serra de Tramuntana, the pro peloton's winter base.

Poland's best mountain biking — a purpose-built enduro network cut into the hills above Wisła.

Five days on the Green Velo route through painted wooden villages, Tatar mosques and river marshes.

The Vuelta's fiercest climbs — the Angliru and the Lagos de Covadonga.

The road-cycling capital of Europe, where the pros winter and every ride climbs out of a medieval city.

The winter training base of the pro peloton, climbs and coast under the Peñón at Calpe.

Easy cycling among post-glacial lakes, moraine hills and old oak forest, just south of Poznań.

Flat embankment riding along the Oder through the old towns of Opole Silesia.

A signposted long-distance bike route across the whole of Wielkopolska, from Okonek to Siemianice.

Lakes, moraine hills and beech forest around the castle village of Łagów.

Quiet avenue roads, brick gothic castles and the Green Velo route through the Warmian lake country.

The Ring Road — 1,332 km of Route 1 all the way around the country.