EuroVelo cycling routes
see also: cycling in Europe
The European Cyclists Federation is developing a network of cycling routes [1] connecting all parts of the continent of Europe. Approximately 20,000km of the planned 60,000km are in place. On OpenStreetmap you can see some of EuroVelo cycling routes and lots of other cycle routes in a digital form.
Routes
There are 14 routes:
North South routes
- 1. Atlantic Coast Route (8,186 km): North Cape - Sagres
- 3. Pilgrims Route (5,122 km): Trondheim - Santiago de Compostela
- 7. Sun Route (7,409 km): North Cape - Malta
- 11. East Europe Route (5,984 km): North Cape - Athens
- 13. Iron Curtain Trail (10,400 km) Barents Sea – Black Sea
- 15. Rhine Route (1,320 km) Andermatt – Wijk bij Duurstede
West-East routes
- 6. Atlantic Ocean to Black Sea: [2] (4,448 km): Nantes - Constanta. This route includes The Danube Cycleway.
Circuits
- 10. Baltic Sea Cycle Route: (Hansa circuit - 7,980 km)
- 12. North Sea Cycle Route: [3] (5,932 km)
Main points on the EuroVelo routes
| Route number | Route name | Passes through these cities | Through these countries | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| km | mi | ||||
| EV1 | Atlantic Coast Route | North Cape (EV7, EV11) - Norwegian Coast - Trondheim (EV3) - Bergen (EV12) - Aberdeen (EV12) - Inverness (EV12 ) - Glasgow - Stranraer - Belfast - Galway (EV2) - Cork - Rosslare - Fishguard - Bristol (EV2) - Plymouth - Roscoff (EV4) - Nantes (EV6) - La Rochelle - Burgos (EV3) - Salamanca - Sagres | Norway, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal | 8,186 | 5,087 |
| EV2 | Capitals Route | Galway (EV1) - Dublin - Holyhead - Bristol (EV1) - London (EV5) - Harwich - Rotterdam - The Hague - Münster (EV3) - Berlin (EV7) - Poznań (EV9) - Warsaw (EV11) - Minsk - Moscow | Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia | 5,500 | 3,400 |
| EV3 | Pilgrim's Route | Santiago de Compostela - León - Burgos (EV1) - Bordeaux - Tours (EV6) - Orléans (EV6) - Paris - Namur (EV5) - Aachen (EV4) - Münster (EV2) - Hamburg (EV12) - Odense (EV10) - Viborg - Frederikshavn (EV12) - Gothenburg (EV12) - Oslo - Røros - Trondheim (EV1) | Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway | 5,122 | 3,183 |
| EV4 | Roscoff-Kiev | Roscoff (EV1) - the French Atlantic coast - Le Havre - Calais (EV5) - Middelburg - Aachen (EV3) - Bonn - Frankfurt - Prague (EV7) - Brno (EV9) - Kraków (EV11) - L'viv - Kiev | France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine | 4,000 | 2,500 |
| EV5 | Via Romea Francigena | London (EV2) - Canterbury - Calais (EV4) - Brussels - Namur (EV3) - Luxembourg - Saarbrücken - Sarreguemines - Strasbourg (EV15) - Basel (EV6) - Lucerne - Milan - Piacenza (EV8) - Parma - Florence(EV7) - Siena - Rome(EV7) - Brindisi | United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy | 3,900 | 2,400 |
| EV6 | Atlantic Ocean to Black Sea (Rivers Route) | Nantes (EV1) - Tours (EV3) - Orleans (EV3) - Nevers - Chalon-sur-Saône - Basel (EV5) - Passau - Linz - Ybbs (EV7) - Vienna (EV9) - Bratislava - Budapest - Belgrade (EV11) - Bucharest - Constanţa | France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania | 3,653 | 2,270 |
| EV7 | Middle Europe Route | North Cape (EV1, EV11) - Haparanda (EV10) - Sundsvall (EV10) - central Sweden - Copenhagen (EV10) - Gedser - Rostock (EV10) - Berlin (EV2) - Prague (EV4) - Ybbs (EV6) - Salzburg - Mantua (EV8) - Bologna - Florence (EV5) - Rome (EV5) - Naples - Syracuse - Malta | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Malta | 6,000 | 3,700 |
| eurovelo8.com EuroVelo 8 EV8 | Mediterranean Route | Cadiz - Málaga - Almeria - Valencia - Barcelona - Monaco - Piacenza (EV5) - Mantua (EV7) - Ferrara - Venice - Trieste (EV9) - Rijeka - Split - Dubrovnik - Tirana - Patras - Athens (EV11) | Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece | 5,388 | 3,348 |
| Eurovelo 9 at CyclingEurope.org EV9Radrouten Niederösterreich - EuroVelo 9 see also | Baltic Sea to Adriatic Sea (Amber Route) | Gdańsk (EV10) - Poznań (EV2) - Olomouc - Brno (EV4) - Reinthal - Vienna (EV6) - Maribor - Ljubljana - Trieste (EV8) - Pula | Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia | 1,930 | 1,200 |
| EV10 | Baltic Sea Cycle Route (Hansa circuit) | St Petersburg - Helsinki (EV11) - Vaasa - Oulu - Haparanda (EV7) - Sundsvall (EV7) - Stockholm - Ystad - Malmö - Copenhagen (EV7) - Odense (EV3) - Rostock (EV7) - Gdańsk (EV9) - Kaliningrad - Klaipėda - Riga - Tallinn (EV11) - St Petersburg | Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia | 7,930 | 4,930 |
| EV11 | East European Route | North Cape (EV1, EV7) - the Finnish Lakes - Helsinki (EV10) - Tallinn (EV10) - Tartu - Vilnius - Warsaw (EV2) - Kraków (EV4) - Košice - Szeged - Belgrade (EV6) - Skopje - Thessaloniki - Athens (EV8) | Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece | 5,964 | 3,706 |
| EV12 | North Sea Cycle Route | Bergen (EV1) - Stavanger - Kristiansand - Gothenburg (EV3) - Varberg - Grenaa - Frederikshavn (EV3) - Hirtshals - Esbjerg - Hamburg (EV3) - The Hague (EV2) - Rotterdam - Harwich (EV2) - Kingston upon Hull - Newcastle - Edinburgh - Aberdeen (EV1) - Inverness (EV1) - Thurso - Orkney - Shetland - Bergen (EV1) | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom | 5,932 | 3,686 |
| EV13 | Iron Curtain Trail | - - - - - - - - - - Szeged - Jimbolia - Vrsac - Orsova - Kladovo - Zaječar - Knjaževac - Pirot - Dragoman - Kyustendil - Strumitsa - Petrich - Gotse Delchev - Smolyan - Kyprinos - Svilengrad - Edirne - Malko Tarnovo - Rezovo | Finland - Russia - Estonia - Latvia - Lithuania - Poland - Germany - Czech Republic - Austria - Slovakia - Hungary - Romania - Serbia - Bulgaria - Macedonia - Bulgaria - Greece - Bulgaria - Turkey - Bulgaria | 6,800 | 4,200 |
| EV15 | Rhine Cycle Route | Andermatt - Chur - Schaffhausen - Basel (EV5-EV6) - Huningue - Neuf-Brisach - Strasbourg (EV5) - Lauterbourg - Karlsruhe - Ludwigshafen - Mannheim - Mainz - Wiesbaden - Bingen - Koblenz - Bonn - Köln - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Xanten - Arnhem - Utrecht - Rotterdam | Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands | 1,320 | 820 |
- Legend - Green: North-South / Blue: West-East / Red: Circuits