Discover our gravel bike tours in Spain and leave the busiest roads behind. Ride ancient pilgrimage paths, peaceful vineyard tracks and quiet country lanes through Catalonia, La Rioja and the Camino de Santiago, combining the freedom of gravel riding with beautiful hotels, local gastronomy and some of Spain’s most fascinating landscapes.
Discover our gravel bike tours in Spain and leave the busiest roads behind. Ride ancient pilgrimage paths, peaceful vineyard tracks and quiet country lanes through Catalonia, La Rioja and the Camino de Santiago, combining the freedom of gravel riding with beautiful hotels, local gastronomy and some of Spain’s most fascinating landscapes.
Gravel bikes open up a different side of Spain.
Rather than choosing between road cycling and mountain biking, gravel allows you to combine both worlds. Smooth country roads can lead naturally onto vineyard tracks, forest paths, old railway trails and historic routes that would be impossible to properly explore on a traditional road bike.
For us, that’s what makes gravel riding so interesting. It’s not about searching for the roughest terrain. It’s about having the freedom to choose the most beautiful route through a destination, regardless of where the tarmac ends.
Three great destinations for gravel cycling in Spain
Catalonia is almost made for this style of riding.
Around Girona and the Empordà, a huge network of quiet roads and rural tracks connects medieval villages, vineyards, forests and the Mediterranean. A gravel bike gives you the freedom to move between surfaces without constantly thinking about whether the next road is paved.
Ride between stone villages such as Pals, Peratallada and Monells, explore the countryside surrounding Girona and eventually make your way towards the landscapes of the Costa Brava.
On a bike tour in Catalonia, you’ll experience gravel riding with a distinctly Mediterranean character: beautiful countryside, historic villages, excellent food and plenty of reasons to get off the bike along the way.
Few journeys are better suited to a gravel bike than the Camino de Santiago.
On our French Way bike tour from León, the route combines paved roads with dirt tracks, rural paths and sections of the historic Camino itself as you travel west towards Santiago de Compostela.
A gravel bike provides the efficiency needed to cover 50 to 60 km per day while remaining comfortable and capable when the route leaves the asphalt. The result is a cycling experience that feels much closer to the original Camino than simply following nearby roads.
And this is one destination where the terrain is only part of the story. Every day brings pilgrimage villages, historic churches, local food and encounters with walkers and cyclists from around the world, all moving towards the same destination.
For a gentler gravel experience, La Rioja is difficult to beat.
Quiet tracks weave between vineyards and connect medieval villages, wineries and rolling countryside. Daily distances on our La Rioja bike tours average around 30 to 50 km with approximately 200 to 450 metres of climbing, making it an excellent introduction to gravel touring as well as a rewarding option for experienced cyclists who simply want to slow down and enjoy the landscape.
Here, gravel isn’t about technical riding or chasing performance.
It’s about leaving the main roads behind, riding directly through the vineyards and stopping along the way to discover the wines, villages and gastronomy that define the region.
A gravel bike gives you options.
It’s fast and efficient on paved roads but provides greater stability, comfort and confidence when the route moves onto dirt tracks or rougher surfaces.
That versatility makes gravel bikes particularly well suited to multi-day cycling holidays in Spain, where the most interesting route between two places isn’t always the most obvious one.
Our gravel fleet includes the Specialized Diverge, designed to combine efficiency on the road with comfort and control on mixed terrain. Its stable geometry and Future Shock system make it particularly suited to the kind of varied riding we look for when designing our gravel journeys.
We don’t design gravel tours simply to maximise the amount of time spent off-road.
We choose the surfaces that make the journey better.
Sometimes that’s a perfectly paved country road. Sometimes it’s a vineyard track, a forest path or an ancient Camino trail that takes you somewhere a road bike simply couldn’t.
Our routes combine that freedom with premium bikes, professional bike fitting, carefully selected hotels, luggage logistics and local support, so you can concentrate on the experience rather than worrying about what lies around the next corner.
Because that’s ultimately what gravel is about:
More roads, more possibilities and more of Spain to discover.