The recipe for success for every successful bike - clever route guidance
From city to city - along beautiful waterways !
Use well-known cities as stepping stones, stopovers and destinations.
-follow the waterways as faithful companions
"Bicycle tour or city trip ? " Best both"
For us bicycle tourists, centrally located cities are the ideal bases, stopovers and destinations.
That is why we have established an international network of capitals and metropolises. All these Velo Europe Points are within easy reach.
Velo Europe Points (VEP) have a main train station and usually also an airport. And they offer an abundance of cultural attractions.
A city tour by bike? Of course ! You will be amazed at the many car-free and bicycle-friendly city centres. Head for the tourist highlights without walking and subway rides. Relaxed and in the most beautiful way - by bike!
Our tip: Use the city to explore the surroundings in day trips in a star shape! Or head for the next stage. And move unerringly from junction to junction in our city network.
Choose your city here - your starting point
here you can learn more about city and urban development
Definition : "Cities are larger and central settlements which, over time and history, have mostly developed at the intersection of major transport routes".
In Germany at the beginning of the 19th century only 25% of the population lived in cities and at the beginning of the 21st century it is already 85% - these figures are similar in the other European countries.
on the one hand, cities have developed along major transport routes, mostly rivers, since there were no railways or other means of transport yet.
Ships or fins were partly pulled upstream by hand or with horses on ropes and along the rivers the towpaths were created.
Cities developed the more surplus goods their inhabitants earned through their work and thus attracted trade and crafts.
The most significant change was brought by industrialization in the 19th century, which also brought the railway.
Traffic centrality was thus redefined - cities located off the railway lines could not develop any further.
Today, cities at important interfaces and transport routes are growing together to form conurbations, Rhine-Main, Rhine-Ruhr or Rhine-Neckar with many millions of inhabitants.
almost without exception, all European centres, capitals and towns are situated on rivers
the original town centres have often remained in the middle of a town that has grown around the old town centre
Due to the enormous increase in traffic volume and urbanisation, all conurbations in Europe (also worldwide) have an acute traffic problem, some of them very large, but always in the centre or core of the city, which we want to see on a city trip.
in order to counteract this, some cities have already closed the motorized traffic in the center.
cycling motorways are already being used in some conurbations - because
cycling is a clean and healthy alternative for many short distances in the city
in most cases the railway runs with a dense network along the formerly important traffic routes - in the Velo Europe network along the developed route
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