The first edition of the North Lake Bike Fest at Palazzo Gallio di Gravedona has started. Also the Ghisallo Museum among the partners. On October 15th when the first edition of the North Lake Bike Fest will be staged at Palazzo Gallio di Gravedona.
Discovering the new itineraries of the lake, on-site exhibitors with accessories and models of e-bikes and mountain bikes, music and sports performances.
For the occasion, the Ghisallo Museum will exhibit some historic bicycles from the Ghisallo collection, a tribute to Fausto Coppi will be screened with notes dedicated to the Champion by Maestro Rossella Spinosa, a project developed as part of the PIC – Integrated Culture Plan.
In the morning there will also be the first Alto Lario Lake Como elegance competition for velocipedes, organized by the Pro Loco of Dongo, in collaboration with the La Ghisallo Team, the Ghisallo Museum and Cerchio Ghisallo.
Sabato 15 Ottobre il Lago di Como si trasforma nel palcoscenico naturale per una grande festa dedicata al mondo delle biciclette. The appointment with Lake Como Bike Fest it is for all professionals, enthusiasts but also for the general public who want to know more closely the bike models for the different ways of use, the services and technologies on the market, the prototypes and the latest news for the sector. There is also space for territories, with proposals for new itineraries to explore the lake on two wheels. A way of experiencing the journey that is no longer just a trend: more and more tourists say they are sensitive to the protection of the environment and local communities and have identified the bicycle as the ideal way to discover a territory. It is no coincidence that cycle tourism, one of the forms of sustainable tourism with the greatest potential for growth in Europe, is an increasingly widespread phenomenon and also studied in the area.
Heart of the event, the splendid location of Palazzo Gallio in Gravedona ed Uniti where a themed exhibition will be set up with latest generation bicycle models and accessories alongside historical relics from the Ghisallo Museum collection. The latter is a real museum exhibition that ideally traces the history of the great myths of cycling, also through unpublished films from the Ghisallo-Acdb Museum Archive with original music by Rossella Spinosa. The exhibition offer is completed by proposals for outdoor experiences for adults and children to discover Lake Como and the surrounding landscapes.
The party continues outside the palace and involves the Upper Lake area more widely. At 10.00 the appointment is in Dongo, with the First Elegance Competition for velocipedes which starts from Piazza Paracchini and reaches Gravedona, while at 3.00 pm always in Dongo in Piazza Matteri, it will be the turn of the Bike-Trial Show, an exhibition and acrobatics performed by the athletes of the BMT Valsassina association.
Admission to the exhibition and to all events is free and free for the whole day.
Lake Como Bike Fest is financed by the Lombardy Region, Department of Tourism, Territorial Marketing and Fashion on the “Every day in Lombardy” call, beneficiary and co-financier of the Como-Lecco Chamber of Commerce and organizer Lariofiere in collaboration with the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario and Ceresio, internal areas of the upper lake, the Dongo Proloco and the “Madonna del Ghisallo” cycling museum. As part of the party, a work shop is scheduled for the morning between local institutions that are developing development and support actions for the cycle-tourism sector.
“The goal – he explains Giuseppe Rasella, delegate of the chamber council for tourism and culture – is to know the ongoing and future projects in the individual territories and understand how to create a system to promote a new model of sustainable tourism, capable of enhancing the very rich environmental and cultural heritage that from the lake shore reaches the mountains and hills of Brianza “.
“Upper Lake Como between Cremia and Valsassina and its Lecco valleys has been implementing the strategy of inland areas for 6 years precisely to develop a strong cycle-tourist area. – he comments Mauro Robba, president of the Mountain Community of the Lario and Ceresio Valleys whose headquarters is in Palazzo Gallio and hosts the exhibition – On the subject there is a great ferment throughout the lake because nature, culture and sustainability find an excellent synthesis in the use of the bicycle as a means of discovery of the territory and a vehicle for promotion and development of the local economy “.
