Finale Ligure is possibly as close as you can get to paradise for mountain bikers. Good weather almost year round, hundreds of mountain bike trails leading down to the sea, great coffee, icecream and lots of really good fresh Italian food.
Close to the town the trails are exposed, rocky and technical passing through herb plants, pretty flowers and traditional Italian Villages with a stunning backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea.
You can climb (or take the shuttle!) for 15km to the top of the mountain above the town to see views of the snow covered Alps on one side and Corsica on the other followed by amazing singletrack descents through beach forests, rocky mountain tracks, pine woods and open mountains all the way back down to the sea. We had to drag ourselves home every day and couldn’t wait to get up in the mornings to go again.
After 8 days straight of riding dragging my bouncy bike up 10,000m of climbing and down even more I am pretty destroyed but extremely happy! highly recommended…