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Transporting your bike.

If you’re flying and you value your bike you will need a good bike box (don’t use soft shell or, indeed, a bike box as in the cardboard effort bikes are delivered to bike shops in.  I kid you not, people do…).

If you’re using a bike box, do think about the transfers to Corvara, etc.  If you hire a car, it will need to be big enough – experience tells us Vauxhall Zafira-sized cars as a minimum for two boxes & two people.  Three boxes will be challenging – they are bulky sods to move around.

My personal preference is a “Bike Mule” service such as this one… I can recommend this whole-heartedly and comprises a service that collects your bike before you leave, packs it properly, insures it, ships it, delivers it to your accommodation, collects it again and delivers it home to you a few days later.  I will be using this service again and it costs £180 if booked before January.  Sounds a lot of dosh, but the convenience is priceless.  Given I have everyone’s details, I am happy to co-ordinate this for anyone interested – please let me know by the middle of December at the latest (I will send a reminder).

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Hopefully by now you have received an email confirming your entry for next July. Hurrah!  It is not too soon to start panicking about training… let alone the training itself!  You will receive an email in early December that you should respond to confirming entry and paying for the privilege too (I think).

A few things to consider..

Staying in/around the area.

Accommodation books up really quickly and you can soon find yourself pushed further away from the start/finish towns of the event (La Villa and Corvara respectively).  Not a problem in itself, but generally means an even earlier start on the ride day.  In 2017, our hotel was virtually in Austria…

I’m not going to attempt to herd the cats on this (sorry, don’t hate me), other than to say a few of us have booked rooms at a hotel in San Cassiano and there remains reasonable availability in this area.  It is convenient for the start of the event, but it is an uphill canter to get home after the event (however you’ll be high on endorphins/Moretti beer and won’t care).

I Suggest finding suitable accommodation is your next priority.

Getting there.

Most convenient/serviced airports are Venice Marco Polo and Innsbruck (about 2-2.5 hrs drive from each).  Others include:

Bolzano (1.5 hours)

Brescia (3 hours)

Treviso (2.5 hours)

Trieste (3 hours)

Verona (3 hours)

Of course, you can drive – a few of us going have endured this previously and can advise on the joys/perils/pitfalls, if required.

Transporting your bike.

If you’re driving out, skip this bit…

If you’re flying and you value your bike you will need a good bike box (don’t use soft shell or, indeed, a bike box as in the cardboard effort bikes are delivered to bike shops in.  I kid you not, people do…).

If you’re using a bike box, do think about the transfers to Corvara, etc.  If you hire a car, it will need to be big enough – experience tells us Vauxhall Zafira-sized cars as a minimum for two boxes & two people.  Three boxes will be challenging – they are bulky sods to move around.

My personal preference is a “Bike Mule” service such as this one… I can recommend this whole-heartedly and comprises a service that collects your bike before you leave, packs it properly, insures it, ships it, delivers it to your accommodation, collects it again and delivers it home to you a few days later.  I will be using this service again and it costs £180 if booked before January.  Sounds a lot of dosh, but the convenience is priceless.  Given I have everyone’s details, I am happy to co-ordinate this for anyone interested – please let me know by the middle of December at the latest (I will send a reminder).

I think that’s enough for now.  Please note, this is all general advice* offered with gay abandon and no promises on accuracy of detail; feel free to ask any questions though – I’ll try and help as best I can.

Ciao for now,

Carl

*Davies Travel is not ABTA registered and takes no responsibility for anything, ever. Please don’t distract the driver.

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Most convenient/serviced airports are Venice Marco Polo and Innsbruck (about 2-2.5 hrs drive from each).  Others include:

Bolzano (1.5 hours)

Brescia (3 hours)

Treviso (2.5 hours)

Trieste (3 hours)

Verona (3 hours)

Of course, you can drive – a few of us going have endured this previously and can advise on the joys/perils/pitfalls, if required.

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Staying in/around the area.

Accommodation books up really quickly and you can soon find yourself pushed further away from the start/finish towns of the event (La Villa and Corvara respectively).  Not a problem in itself, but generally means an even earlier start on the ride day.  In 2017, our hotel was virtually in Austria…

I’m not going to attempt to herd the cats on this (sorry, don’t hate me), other than to say a few of us have booked rooms at a hotel in San Cassiano and there remains reasonable availability in this area.  It is convenient for the start of the event, but it is an uphill canter to get home after the event (however you’ll be high on endorphins/Moretti beer and won’t care).

I Suggest finding suitable accommodation is your next priority.

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Asolo (Italian pronunciation: ) is a town and in the Veneto Region of northern Italy. It is known as "The Pearl of the province of Treviso", and also as "The City of a Hundred Horizons" for its mountain settings. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").

The Fortress of Asolo.

The town was originally a settlement of the Veneti, and was mentioned as Acelum in the works of Pliny. Its citizens were inscribed into the Roman tribe Claudia. It was called Acelum in the acts of a synod held in Marano in 588 or 591, since one of the participants was Agnellus episcopus sanctae Acelinae ecclesiae; the name Asolo was already in use by the time of a synod held in Mantua in 827 (or perhaps 835), at which the participation of Arthemius episcopus Asolensis is noted. In 969, Emperor Otto I assigned the territory of the diocese of Acelum/Asolo to the diocese of Treviso. This action may be related to the destruction caused by the Hungarian raiders who in 899 defeated Berengar I of Italy near the town. However, one of the bishops at a synod at Rome under Pope Leo IX in 1049 was called Ugo of Asolo. No longer a residential bishopric, Acelum is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

In the early Middle Ages Asolo was a possession of the Ezzelini family. Later, it was the capital, and seat of the court, of the fiefdom of Asolo, which was granted by the Republic of Venice (to which it belonged) to Caterina Cornaro, the former Queen of Cyprus; in 1489 it was granted to her for life, but in 1509 when the League of Cambrai conquered and ransacked Asolo, Caterina fled to exile and died in Venice a year later. Under her reign, the painter Gentile Bellini, the poet Andrea Navagero, and the humanist Cardinal Pietro Bembo were part of the court.

Portrait of Caterina Cornaro

In 1798, the Italian impresario Antonio Locatelli built the Asolo Theatre in the former audience hall of the castle of Caterina Cornaro.

The theatre was later purchased by Florida, for the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The theatre was disassembled, shipped to Sarasota, Florida, and reassembled in one of the museum's galleries in 1952. It was then decided that the theatre should be reassembled into a usable theatre, on the museum's grounds in the late 1950s. The newly constructed theatre opened in 1958, and is now the home of both the Asolo Repertory Theatre and the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

The town was also home to the English poet Robert Browning, the actress Eleonora Duse, the explorer Freya Stark, the violinist Wilma Neruda and the composer Gian Francesco Malipiero.

Jewish history

The earliest evidence of Jews in Asolo dates back to the middle of the sixteenth century. At that time, 37 Jews were living in Asolo. The community had owned a cemetery, from which two ancient tombstones are presented in the local gallery. On November 22, 1547, 10 Jews belonging to the community of Asolo, consisted at the time of 7 families and 2 guests, were killed by a mob led by a man called Antonio Parisotto. Five Jewish families' houses were destroyed. A number of the attackers were put to justice and sentenced to death or exile. One of the survivors was Marco Cohen, who founded the Cantarini family, known for several of its members such as Hayyim Moses Cantarini, and others.

Other documentations of the Jewish community of Asolo mentions the prohibition of Jews bearing weapons and obligation to wear the yellow badge. There is evidence to Jewish presence after the 1546 attack, dating from the middle of the 17th century. The Jewish quarter was situated at the turn of Colmarion street, bounded on the north by the old road Colmarion, on the south by Piazza del Pavion and by the last stretch of via s. Caterina and crossed by the short Belvedere alley - this area was called "the Ghetto", housing about six houses.

Remains of an amphitheatre (in the Villa Freya) and of an aqueduct.

Rocca (castle, late 12th-early 13th centuries).

The Castle of Caterina Cornaro, now home to the Eleonora Duse theatre.

Inner court view of the Castle

Palazzo della Ragione, housing the city's museum.

The cathedral, built in 1747. In the interior is the Assunta altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto.

For a number of years, the Convento di Santo Pietro (situated just below la Rocca) housed an American university: Consortium International for Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA). Students from all over the world lived, studied, and worked in the converted convent in Asolo while earning their MBA. The CIMBA program has since been relocated to a larger campus in nearby Paderno del Grappa.

Chiesa dell'Assunta (Assumption of Our Lady, who is portrayed in the mosaic of the main façade), the cathedral of the former residential see of Acelum or Asolo.

Chiesa di San Gottardo (deconsecrated): it now houses music concerts.

Chiesa di Santa Caterina, with frescos from the 14th century

Chiesa di Sant'Anna, next to the cemetery where Freya Stark and Eleonora Duse are buried.

Foreign ethnicities and minorities

As of December 31, 2022, foreigners residents in the municipality were 1,169, i.e. 13.1% of the population. The largest groups are shown below:

Asolo is best known for its lace production. and also for one of the largest companies in the Italian and international technical mountaineering and hiking footwear sector: Scarpa. Casella d'Asolo is home to the headquarters of Fashion Box S.p.a., founded in 1981 by Claudio Buziol. Replay is an Italian denim and smart casualwear brand belonging to the industrial group with exports that account for around 92% of the total turnover.

Located along the state road 248 Schiavonesca-Marosticana, between 1914 and 1931 Asolo represented the western terminus of the Montebelluna-Asolo tramway, the first element of a never built rail route between Bassano del Grappa and Susegana, which at the time represented an important development tool for the economy of the area. Since 2014 it has been connected to Montebelluna and Treviso by several bus lines of MOM - Mobilità di Marca.

Giorgio Fossaluzza; Museo civico (Asolo, Italy) (2014). Il Museo civico di Asolo : opere dal Quattrocento al Novecento (in Italian). Crocetta del Montello (Tv, Italy): Antiga edizioni. p. 635. ISBN 9788897784395. OCLC 894896525.

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Asolo (Italian pronunciation: ) is a town and in the Veneto Region of northern Italy. It is known as "The Pearl of the province of Treviso", and also as "The City of a Hundred Horizons" for its mountain settings. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").

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Whether you're competing in the Etape du Tour or the ETU, let us take the stress out of transporting your bike to and from your event with our economical delivery service.

We safely transport bikes to a number of triathlons and sportives across Europe including the Etape du Tour, Ironman, ETU, ITU, Maratona dles Dolomites, La Marmotte, Lanzarote, Italy, France and Mallorca.

With our low-cost bike transport service your bike will be collected from your home and safely driven to your event where it will be waiting for you on your arrival at your hotel, fully built. Once you're done, we'll pick up your bike and drive it back home again.

Book and pay for your bike transport early and save ££££'s - it works out cheaper than a week's box hire and Ryanair's sports equipment costs. We can also offer discounts for groups if we can collect your bikes from one central address.

Click the links below to see a full list of the events and prices we're driving to this year:
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We're proud to be upfront with our bike transport costs and include bike insurance free of charge as standard (most other companies charge extra after you've booked)

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...and hello to an easier way of travelling with your bike

...and as cyclists ourselves we think cycling holidays are a blast, but there's always one problem. The bike. You've got a great bike, right? That you want to use on your holiday, right? And you really enjoy dismantling it and packing it into a bikebox, right? And paying more to put your bike on the plane than you paid for your seat, right? Oh, hang on a minute, it's going a bit wrong now. Don't despair however, and consider dumb options like driving, because there IS an easier way to travel on holiday with your bike. It may well save you money too.

Instead of the aggravation of packing your bike into a box (which you may well have had to rent), getting it to the airport and lugging it through the terminal, transferring it to your resort (using more cabs than you'd need if you and your buddies were travelling bike-free), and then reassembling it (assuming it's not got dinged somewhere along the line), how does this sound? Have your bike picked up from a convenient location, stroll through the airport with just regular baggage, and rock up to your hotel where your bike is ready to go. You'll be riding quicker than you can say chamois cream.

At BikeMule we can make this happen, by transporting your machine in a vehicle specifically fitted out to carry bikes safely and securely, and often at less cost than you might expect. In fact, if your group is a decent size then it can work out cheaper than taking your bike on a plane, so why not let us give you a quote?

No matter what size your group, we'd love to quote you on transporting your bikes, so please get in touch using the form below.

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and hello to an easier way of travelling with your bike ...and as cyclists ourselves we think cycling holidays are a blast, but there's always one problem. The bike. You've got a great bike, right? That you want to use on your holiday, right?

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From conditions of entry Maratona dles Dolomites - Enel 2019 pt. 4 and 5: There are 3 possible routes for the 2019 Maratona dles Dolomites - Enel. Participants are free to select the route best suited to their ability, also during the course of the event, entirely according to their own judgement.

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Dolomites roadbike: descending the Passo Campolongo towards Arabba

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One way flight, two people, 1x23kg bag - £76. Job done for the present Mrs Davies and I.

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Carl's Nice training camp with Geraint Thomas

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Hi everybody
Cos I’m a very excitable person I accidentally ordered 2 maratona dles dolomites bib shorts in size Large -(chest 40, waist 34-35 etc), as per maratona website, so if any of said party wants to purchase from this stupid party 1 pair at discount of €70 please text me on 07779221193 or via this forum - Dave’s den of delights, cheers Andrew Lindsay
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