Travelling Greece: Four road bike tours on the Peloponnese - The most beautiful road bike routes on the Peloponnese peninsula

The Peloponnese peninsula is the southernmost part of the Greek mainland. It has the shape of a four-fingered, downward-pointing right hand. Our starting point Nafplio (also translated as Nauplia or Nafplion) is therefore located between the thumb and forefinger, 100 kilometres southwest of Athens and roughly at the same latitude as Sicily; its size is also similar to that of Sicily. The Peloponnese is mountainous throughout, with the highest peaks reaching around 2,400 metres. One advantage of Nafplio's location is its well-functioning tourist infrastructure. The city is an important starting point for educational travellers interested in antiquity and only secondarily a summer resort. It also has dozens of restaurants and a pretty historic centre.
A special feature of our tours around Nafplio are the roads in the mountains, some of which are wide but with little traffic, and on some stretches we took even quieter side roads. As the already rough asphalt quality can change quickly on all roads, wide tyres are a good choice. The direction of travel recommended in our tour descriptions is orientated towards having as much fun as possible on the descent. We recommend compact cranks with at least a 28-tooth sprocket for those with average training. Even if the gradients only rarely and briefly reach double figures, there are still quite a few metres in altitude. The highest point of our tours is 1,630 metres above sea level. A GPS device is helpful for orientation, as even the signposts, which are often only labelled in Greek letters, are occasionally missing.

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