The Routes

Services and Equipment

Biking tours around the corners and rural landscapes of the Spanish regions,
at a leisurely pace, to discover, feel and enjoy "the countryside".

Another way to make way!

The design, preparation and implementation of Cycle Routes in Nature, are activities performed by Estudios Territoriales Integrados (ETI) S.L., an environmental consultancy specialized in research and conservation projects, environmental assessment, environmental training and education courses and active recreational activities.

Our routes offer a choice of nature tourism, combining, sport, leisure and culture, travelling by bicycle. A clean, comfortable, fast and free mode of transport, that allows long travelling distances, approaching the travellers to the variety of the Spanish natural an rural landscapes.

While moving, at a leisurely pace, travellers contemplate and observe the landscape and as they become immersed in the environment, they can listen the wildlife demonstrations, the sounds of the countryside and villages, and can look at the colourful terrain and vegetation that covers it..., feeling the landscape.

To complement the observation made by the travellers, each participant has at his disposal, radio-transmitted audio guides, which together with the information provided by the tour guide, let them discover the processes and elements of the natural and cultural heritage of the territories.

The narration, through audios, stimulates the imagination and betakes the traveller while riding on his bike, to other levels of space and other times ... the roots of the landscape are discovered, through the forms of the geological material … the words of poets and writers appeal to the travellers emotions ,..., the ruins of castles, churches, fountains, sinks and architectural heritage ... bring the traveller closer to the problems and aspirations of the historic figures: kings, nobles, clergy, subjects, citizens ... who changed these lands of the Spanish geography and that represent the influence of culture on the landscape.

Interest of the routes

It is a recreational and sporting activity, at an easy pace, with an important cultural component.

Participation in the activity can be for one individual person, groups of friends, families with children ..., and for collective groups, specifically tailored to the needs of cultural associations, companies, institutes, schools, universities and sports and leisure organizations.

The design of the different routes, meet the demand for nature tourism and educational activities (secondary and higher education).

As a multidisciplinary education activity, Science combines with History, Literature and Geography, inside the sporting framework of the route. The contents of the audios help to explain the territory and acquire practical knowledge about the observed reality. In addition, the support vehicle has a transmitter, which allows the participation of teachers.

For its interest in education, audios may be translated into English, French and German, by prior agreement with educational centres.

When participants are not fluent in Spanish, the guide will be English speaking and the audios could be in English.

It must be highlighted the recreational and formative utility of the routes with audio guide, intended for those with visual disability by means of the availability of tandem bikes.

 

ESTUDIOS TERRITORIALES INTEGRADOS, S.L.
Santísima Trinidad, 8 MADRID (28010)
Telf.: (+34) 91-4461497 
eti@estudiosterritoriales.net