Wrocław, Lower Silesia Voivodeship, Poland

Velo Europe and cycling around Wroclaw

Wroclaw offers many rivers and opportunities in all directions. 

Velo Europe Routes is currently planning routes along the Oder River down to Szczecin and connection possibilities to the Baltic Sea cycle path in the direction of Germany.
The Oder cycle path is well signposted scenically very charming path, through a wide valley along a slowly flowing large and historic river.

We have to consider in the daily planning or stage planning generally that there are partly very sparsely populated areas here, on which there are no catering possibilities and on longer distances no stations and therefore must be well planned.

Velo Europe day stages from Breslau
1. Wroclaw to Opole , approx 97 km
2. Wroclaw to Lüben (Lubin), approx. 101 km
3. Wrolaw to Streheln (Strzelin), approx. 61 km, connection possibilities after Glatz at the Glatzer Neisse 
4. Wroclaw Airport - Wroclaw centre approx. km
5. City tour of Wroclaw , approx km  

The Velo Europe Routes from Wroclaw 

Wroclaw to Berlin
The route along the Oder river downstream from Lower Silesia via Glogau and Zielona Gora leads you through the landscape of Lebus and to the German-Polish Oder border.
Lebus is a historical cultural landscape on the western side today Brandenburg and on the eastern side voivodship Lebus in Poland.
From the Oder to Havel and Spree there are connecting channels of the Oder-Spree canal or Oder-Havel or its predecessor Finow Canal which we use as orientation for our routes into the Berlin area.
Via Eisenhüttenstadt to Fürstenwalde at Spree, partly along the Spree or some canals we reach the Berlin East, the Müggelsee and drive to the center of the German capital.

Wroclaw to Krakow
On the route upstream the Oder we drive through Lower Silesia via Oppeln / Opole to Upper Silesia (area Gliwice and Katowice).
From Opole further in the direction of Katowice and from there we reach after several kilometers the river course of the Vistula, near the city of Auschwitz, which became negatively known by World War II.
The Vistula here from Wisla is the biggest Polish river.
From Auschwitz we follow the Vistula downstream to the former Polish capital Krakow.

Breslau to Stettin ( in planning ) 
We follow the Oder through Upper Silesia, Lebus, along the Oder, which here to Szczecin in a wide plain is the border between Poland and Germany.

Velo Europe plans in phase 2 further stages upstream on the Oder to Ostrava and a connection from Ostrava to Brno to connect Wroclaw further to the Velo Europe network to Vienna.
Another connection to Prague ( also Option Dresden ) along the Schweidnitz (tributary of the Oder which flows into Breslau) and the young Elbe near Pardubice to Melnik.