EuroVelo

Map of the EuroVelo cycle route network.

The European cycle route network Eurovelo is a project of the European Cyclists Association ECF . Long-distance cycle routes with a total length of over 90,000 kilometers will be created by 2020 , and by 2012 the network had grown to 45,000 km. The aim is to develop infrastructure for both cycle tourism and the local population.

The EuroVelo network consists of 16 routes: ten north-south routes, four west-east routes and two circular routes.

EuroVelo routes

The EuroVelo routes are recognized as a seal of quality by the ECF according to specific criteria, including: a. the participation of several countries, a distance of at least 1,000 km based on existing national routes, uniform signage and an easy-to-communicate topic and name for each.

The routes are in different stages of expansion. The Rhine Cycle Route (EV15) was the first to fully meet the European certification standard and the Atlantic - Black Sea route (EV6) is the most developed and fully signposted route, while other routes still have gaps with sections that have been planned but not yet implemented . The routes EV14, EV16 and EV18, according to the numbering scheme north-south routes, are still being planned and are therefore not listed.

The following route description shows the intended final expansion of the route. Intersections with other EuroVelo routes are indicated in brackets.

EuroVelo route		course	traveled countries	Length km	link
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  - Pamplona  (EV3) - Salamanca  - Sagres	Norway, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal	8,186	[1]
Capital Route	⮀	Galway  (EV1) - Dublin  - Holyhead  - Bristol (EV1) - London  (EV5) - Harwich  - Rotterdam  (EV12, EV19) - The Hague  - Münster  (EV3) - Berlin  (EV7) - Poznan  (EV9) - Warsaw  (EV11) - Minsk  - Moscow	Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany ( there:  European route D3 ), Poland, Belarus, Russia	5,500	[2]
Pilgrimage route	⮃	Trondheim (EV1) - Røros  - Oslo  - Gothenburg  (EV12) - Frederikshavn  (EV12) - Viborg  - Flensburg  - Hamburg  (EV12) - Münster (EV2) - Cologne  (EV15) - Aachen  - Namur  (EV5, EV19) - Paris  - Orléans  (EV6) - Tours  (EV6) - Bordeaux  - Pamplona  (EV1) - León  - Santiago de Compostela  -	Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain	5.122	[3]
Central Europe route	⮀	Roscoff (EV1) - French Atlantic coast - Le Havre  - Calais  (EV5) - Middelburg  - Düsseldorf  (EV15) - Bonn  (EV15) - Frankfurt am Main  - Prague  (EV7) - Brno  (EV9) - Krakow  (EV11) - Lviv  - Kiev	France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine	4,000	[4]
Via Romea Francigena	⮃	London (EV2) - Canterbury  - Calais (EV4) - Brussels  - Namur  (EV3, EV19) - Luxembourg  - Saarbrücken  - Strasbourg  (EV15) - Basel  (EV6) - Lucerne  - Andermatt  (EV15, EV17) - Milan  - Piacenza  (EV8) - Parma  - Florence  (EV7) - Siena  - Rome  (EV7) - Brindisi	Great Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy	3,900	[5]
Atlantic - Black Sea	⮀	Nantes (EV1) - Tours (EV3) - Orléans (EV3) - Nevers  - Chalon-sur-Saône  - Basel (EV5) - Ulm  - Passau  - Linz  - Ybbs  (EV7) - Vienna  (EV9) - Bratislava  - Budapest  - Belgrade  ( EV11) - Bucharest  - Constanța	France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania	4,448	[6] , [7]
Sun 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	7,409	[8th]
Mediterranean route	⮀	Cádiz  - Málaga  - Almería  - Valencia  - Barcelona  - Avignon  (EV17) - Monaco  - Piacenza  (EV5) - Mantua  (EV7) - Ferrara  - Venice  - Trieste  (EV9) - Rijeka  - Split  - Dubrovnik  - Tirana  - Patras  - Athens  (EV11) - Nicosia	Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Cyprus	5,888	[9]
Baltic-Adriatic Route	⮃	Gdansk  (EV10) - Poznan  (EV2) - Wroclaw  - Olomouc  - Brno  (EV4) - Vienna  (EV6) - Maribor  - Ljubljana  - Trieste  (EV8) - Pula	Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia	1,930	[10]
Baltic Sea Route	↻	Saint Petersburg  - Helsinki  (EV11) - Vaasa  - Oulu  - Haparanda  (EV7) - Sundsvall  (EV7) - Stockholm  - Ystad  - Malmö  - Copenhagen (EV7) - Odense  - Rostock (EV7) - Gdansk (EV9) - Kaliningrad  - Riga  - Tallinn  (EV11) - Saint Petersburg	Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia	7,980	[11]
Eastern Europe route	⮃	North Cape (EV1, EV7) - Finnish Lake District  - Helsinki (EV10) - Tallinn (EV10) - Tartu  - Vilnius  - Warsaw (EV2) - Krakow (EV4) - Kosice  - Belgrade  (EV6) - Skopje  - Thessaloniki  - Athens (EV8)	Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece	5,984	[12]
North Sea Coast Route	↻	Bergen (EV1) - Stavanger - Kristiansand - Gothenburg (EV3) - Varberg - Grenaa - Frederikshavn (EV3) - Hirtshals - Esbjerg - Hamburg (EV3) - The Hague (EV2) - Rotterdam (EV19) - Harwich (EV2) - Hull  - Newcastle  - Edinburgh  - Aberdeen (EV1) - Inverness (EV1) - Thurso  - Orkney  - Shetland  - Bergen (EV1)	Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain	5,932	[13] , [14]
Iron Curtain Trail (Iron Curtain Route)	⮃	Kirkenes  - Inari  - Virolahti  (EV10) - Saint Petersburg - Tallinn (EV11) - Riga - Klaipėda  - Kaliningrad - Gdansk (EV9) - Warnemünde  (EV7) - Ilsenburg  (EV2) - Eisenach  - Mödlareuth  - Cheb  (EV4) - Waldmünchen  - České Velenice  (EV7) - Břeclav  (EV9) - Sopron  - Beli Manastir  (EV6) - Szeged  - Moldova  Veche - Pirot  - Tran  - Berovo  - Svilengrad  - Edirne  - Resowo  on the  Black Sea	Norway, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey	9,000 and more	[15] , [16]
Rhine cycle path	⮃	Andermatt  (EV5, EV17) - Chur  - Schaffhausen  - Basel (EV6) - Huningue  - Neuf-Brisach  - Strasbourg (EV5) - Lauterbourg  - Karlsruhe  - Ludwigshafen  - Mannheim  - Mainz  - Wiesbaden  - Bingen  - Koblenz  - Bonn - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg  - Xanten  - Arnhem  (EV19) - Utrecht  - Rotterdam (EV2, EV12, EV15)	Switzerland, France, Germany, the Netherlands	1,320	[17] [18]
Rhone cycle route	⮃	Andermatt  (EV5, EV15) - Furkapass  - Goms  - Brig  - Sierre  - Sion  - Vevey  - Montreux  - Lausanne  - Nyon  - Geneva  - Lyon  - Valence  - Avignon  (EV8) eastern end: Avignon  (EV8) - Arles  (EV8) - Port- Saint-Louis-du-Rhône western end: Avignon  (EV8) - Nîmes  (EV8) - Palavas-les-Flots	Switzerland ( there: Rhone Route, Veloroute 1 ), France	1,160	[19] [20]
Maas cycle path	⮃	Langres-Plateau  - Pagny-sur-Meuse  - Namur (EV3, EV19) - Liège  - Roermond  - Arnhem  (EV15) - Rotterdam (EV2, EV12, EV15), Hoek van Holland	France, Belgium, the Netherlands	1,152	[21] [22]
	Route: ⮃North-south •⮀East-west •↻ Circuit

history

In the mid-1990s, under the leadership of the ECF , the Danish organization De Frie Fugle and the British charity Sustrans, the idea of ​​a Europe-wide network of cycle paths was born. Since August 2007 the ECF has been solely responsible for the project. In 2009, in a publication by the European Parliament , Marc Thomas rated the EuroVelo project and especially cycle route 13 (Iron Curtain Trail) as a recommendation for the EU Commission and recommended that it be included in the trans-European transport network . In December 2012, Parliament decided to include the cycle route network in the TEN-T project.

See also

• Course of the EuroVelo routes in Austria
• cross-border long-distance cycle routes
  • European cycle route R1 Boulogne-sur-Mer - St. Petersburg
  • Pan-European Cycle Route Paris - Prague

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EuroVelo The European cycle route network. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .  Brochure (May 2009)
2. ↑ The European Cycle Route Network Eurovelo (study on behalf of the European Parliament, 2012), on ecf.com, accessed on April 8, 2019
3. ↑ Eurovelo project website of the ECF (accessed March 30, 2016)
4. ↑ What is EuroVelo? - EuroVelo - the European cycle route network. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (American English). 
5. ↑ EuroVelo routes - EuroVelo. Retrieved April 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ EuroVelo: Press Kit .
7. ↑ EuroVelo 6 Atlantic - Black Sea , on de.eurovelo.com
8. ↑ Practical information and FAQ - EuroVelo. Retrieved August 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Marc Thomas: The European cycle network EuroVelo . European Parliament (Directorate-General Internal Policies / Section B: Structural and Cohesion Policies / Transport and Tourism). 2012

Web links

Commons : EuroVelo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Project website , for cyclists, with an interactive map of the network of trails
• ECF website
• EuroVelo Austria website with route information - for cyclists
• Website of the project , for organizations and people who work on the project