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Length	55,923 mi (89,999 km)
Formed	1995
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EuroVelo	EV nn
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EuroVelo is a network of 17long-distance cycling routes criss-crossingEurope, with 2 more in early construction across various stages of completion. When completed, the EuroVelo network's total length will be almost 60,875 km (37,826 mi).^[1]^[2] As of 2023^[update] more than 56,000 km (35,000 mi) were in place.^[3] EuroVelo is a project of theEuropean Cyclists' Federation (ECF). The multinational project aims to connect 40 countries via the 19 unique routes across the European continent.

EuroVelo routes can be used forbicycle touring across the continent, as well as by local people making short journeys. The routes are made of both existingnational bike routes — such as the DutchLF-Routes, the GermanD-Routes, the Frenchvéloroute "SN3V" and the BritishNational Cycle Network — and existing general purpose roads, together with new stretches of cycle routes to connect them.^[4]

History

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The idea of creating a network of international cycle routes spanning Europe started in 1995. It was initially coordinated by theECF,De Frie Fugle (Denmark) andSustrans (UK) and the original plan was to create 12long-distance cycling routes.

Since August 2007, the ECF has assumed full responsibility for the project. Despite sometimes tight financial constraints, the EuroVelo project has already begun to fulfil the vision of its founders with sections of the network being implemented in countries as far apart as Finland, Cyprus, Spain and the UK. In addition, the EuroVelo brand has become widely known.

There have been various changes to the network over the years, most notably the addition of two new routes — EuroVelo 13 (theIron Curtain Trail) and EuroVelo 15 (theRhine Cycle Route) — in September 2011, which are the longest and shortest of the EuroVelo routes.^[5]

Future expansion

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In September 2023, the ECF announced that the Iberian Cycle route connecting Lisbon with Pamplona via Madrid is set to become the future EuroVelo 16 route by 2028 with a length of 1,896 km.^[6]

Main points on the EuroVelo routes

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Route number	Route name	Passes through these cities	Through these countries	Length
Route number	Route name	Passes through these cities	Through these countries	km	mi
EV1	Atlantic Coast Route	North Cape (EV7, EV11) -Tromsø -Vestvågøy -Trondheim (EV3) -Bergen (EV12) -Aberdeen (EV12) -Inverness (EV12 ) -Glasgow -Stranraer -Belfast -Lisburn -Strabane -Derry -Sligo -Galway (EV2) -Limerick -Waterville -Cork -Rosslare -Fishguard -Newport -Bristol (EV2) -Plymouth -Roscoff (EV4) -Nantes (EV6) -La Rochelle -Arcachon -Bayonne -Hendaye -Irun -Pamplona (EV3) -Burgos -Valladolid -Salamanca -Cáceres -Ayamonte -Faro -Sagres -Lisbon -Porto -Caminha	Norway, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal	10,650	6,620
EV2	Capitals Route	Galway (EV1) -Athlone -Dublin -Holyhead -Bristol (EV1) -Bath -Reading -London (EV12) -Harwich -Hoek van Holland (EV12, EV15, EV19) -The Hague (EV12) -Utrecht -Münster (EV3) -Dessau -Berlin (EV7) -Poznań (EV9) -Warsaw (EV11) -Minsk -Moscow	Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia	5,050	3,140
EV3	Pilgrims Route	Trondheim (EV1) -Lillehammer -Oslo -Halden -Strömstad -Gothenburg (EV12) -Frederikshavn (EV12) -Aalborg -Viborg -Vejen -Padborg -Flensburg -Hamburg (EV12) -Münster (EV2) -Wesel (EV15) -Düsseldorf (EV4) -Cologne -Aachen -Liège (EV19) -Namur (EV5, EV19) -Charleroi -Maubeuge -Paris -Orléans (EV6) -Tours (EV6) -Bordeaux -Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port -Roncesvalles -Pamplona (EV1) -Logroño -Burgos -Frómista (EV1) -León -Ponferrada -Sarria -Santiago de Compostela	Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain	5,650	3,510
EV4	Central Europe Route	Roscoff (EV1) -Mont-Saint-Michel -Cherbourg -Le Havre -Calais (EV5, EV12) -Vlissingen (EV12) -Venlo -Düsseldorf (EV3, EV15) -Bonn (EV3, EV15) -Frankfurt -Cheb (EV13) -Karlovy Vary -Prague (EV7) -Brno (EV9) -Kraków (EV11) -Lviv -Kyiv	France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine	5,100	3,200
EV5	Via Romea Francigena	Canterbury (EV12) -Dover (EV12) -Calais (EV4, EV12) -Lille -Brussels -Namur (EV3, EV19) -Luxembourg -Saarbrücken -Strasbourg (EV15) -Mulhouse (EV6) -Basel (EV6, EV15) -Andermatt (EV15, EV17) -Lucerne -Milan -Pavia (EV8) -Piacenza (EV8) -Lucca -Siena -Rome (EV7) -Benevento -Brindisi	United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy	3,200	2,000
EV6	Atlantic – Black Sea Route	Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (EV1) -Nantes (EV1) -Tours (EV3) -Orléans -Besançon -Mulhouse (EV5) -Basel (EV5, EV15) -Radolfzell -Ulm -Regensburg -Passau (EV7) -Linz (EV7) -Vienna (EV9) -Bratislava (EV13) -Budapest -Osijek -Belgrade -Pančevo (EV11) -Bela Crkva (EV13) -Drobeta-Turnu Severin (EV13) -Vidin/Calafat -Ruse/Giurgiu -Silistra -Brăila -Constanța	France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria	4,450	2,770
EV7	Sun Route	North Cape (EV1, EV11) -Haparanda (EV10) -Sundsvall (EV10) -Gothenburg (EV3, EV12) -Helsingborg -Copenhagen (EV10) -Gedser -Rostock (EV10, EV13) -Berlin (EV2) -Dresden -Prague (EV4) -Linz (EV6) -Salzburg -Bolzano -Mantua (EV8) -Bologna -Florence -Rome (EV5) -Naples -Catanzaro -Catania -Valletta	Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Malta	7,700	4,800
EV8	Mediterranean Route	Cádiz -Málaga -Almería -Murcia -Alicante -Valencia -Barcelona -Béziers -Sète (EV17) -Cannes -Nice -Turin -Pavia (EV5) -Mantua (EV7) -Venice -Trieste (EV9) -Koper -Pula (EV9) -Zadar -Split -Dubrovnik -Tivat -Kotor -Shkodër -Tirana -Vlorë -Patras -Athens (EV11) -Bergama -İzmir -Selçuk -Nicosia -Larnaca -Limassol -Paphos -Polis -Nicosia	Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus	7,500	4,700
EV9	Baltic - Adriatic	Gdańsk (EV10, EV13) -Bydgoszcz -Poznań (EV2) -Wrocław -Olomouc -Brno (EV4) -Břeclav -Vienna (EV6) -Maribor -Ljubljana -Trieste (EV8) -Pula (EV8)	Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia	2,050	1,270
EV10	Baltic Sea Cycle Route	Gdańsk (EV9, EV13) -Rostock (EV7, EV13) -Kiel -Sønderborg -Copenhagen (EV7) -Malmö -Kalmar -Stockholm -Sundsvall (EV7) -Umeå (EV7) -Oulu (EV11) -Vaasa -Turku -Helsinki (EV11) -Virolahti (EV13) -Saint Petersburg (EV13) -Tallinn (EV11, EV13) -Riga (EV13) -Klaipėda (EV13) -Kaliningrad (EV13) -Gdańsk	Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania	9,000	5,600
EV11	East Europe Route	North Cape (EV1, EV7) -Inari (EV13) -Rovaniemi -Oulu (EV10) -Kuopio -Helsinki (EV10) -Tallinn (EV10, EV13) -Tartu -Daugavpils -Vilnius -Warsaw (EV2) -Kraków (EV4) -Košice -Szeged (EV13) -Pančevo (EV6) -Skopje -Thessaloniki -Larissa -Athens (EV8)	Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece	6,550	4,070
EV12	North Sea Cycle Route	Bergen (EV1) -Stavanger -Kristiansand -Gothenburg (EV3) -Halmstad -Grenaa -Esbjerg -Hamburg (EV3) -Bremerhaven -Den Helder -The Hague (EV2) -Vlissingen (EV4) -Dunkirk -Calais (EV4, EV5) -Dover (EV5) -Canterbury (EV5) -London (EV2) -Norwich -Hull -Newcastle -Edinburgh -Aberdeen (EV1) -Inverness (EV1) -Thurso -Orkney Islands -Shetland Islands -Bergen	Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, United Kingdom	7,050	4,380
EV13	Iron Curtain Trail	Grense Jakobselv -Kirkenes -Inari (EV11) -Sodankylä (EV11) -Suomussalmi -Lappeenranta -Saint Petersburg (EV10) -Tallinn (EV10, EV11) -Riga (EV10) -Klaipėda (EV10) -Kaliningrad (EV10) -Gdańsk (EV 9, EV10) -Greifswald (EV10) -Rostock (EV7, EV10) -Lübeck -Eschwege -Cheb (EV4) -Bratislava (EV6) -Donji Miholjac -Szeged (EV11) -Vršac -Drobeta-Turnu Severin (EV6) -Zaječar -Pirot -Kyustendil -Strumica -Petrich -Smolyan -Kyprinos -Edirne -Kırklareli -Malko Tarnovo -Rezovo	Norway, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey	9,950	6,180
EV14	Waters of Central Europe	Zell Am See -Bischofshofen (EV7) -Liezen -Graz -Fehring (EV9) -Gleisdorf -Szentgotthárd (EV13) -Keszthely -Székesfehérvár -Velence	Austria, Hungary	1,125	699
EV15	Rhine Cycle Route	Andermatt (EV5, EV17) -Chur -Grabs -Lustenau -Konstanz -Öhningen -Schaffhausen -Basel (EV5, EV6) -Rosenau/Weil am Rhein -Biesheim/Breisach -Strasbourg -Karlsruhe -Mannheim -Worms/Biebesheim am Rhein -Mainz (EV4) -Bingen (EV4) -Koblenz (EV4) -Bonn (EV3, EV4)) -Cologne (EV3, EV4) -Düsseldorf (EV3) -Duisburg (EV3) -Rheinberg/Wesel -Xanten/Emmerich am Rhein -Arnhem (EV2) -Leerdam -Rotterdam (EV19) -Hoek van Holland (E2, EV12, EV19)	Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands	1,500	930
EV17	Rhone Cycle Route	Andermatt (EV5, EV15) -Furka Pass -Brig -Sierre -Sitten -Martigny -Saint Gingolph/Vevey -Thonon-les-Bains/Lausanne -Geneva -Lyon -Valence -Avignon -Tarascon East branch: Tarascon -Arles -Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône West branch: Tarascon -Saint-Gilles -Palavas-les-Flots -Sète (EV8)	Switzerland, France	1,250	780
EV19	Meuse Cycle Route	Langres -Neufchâteau -Commercy -Verdun -Stenay -Charleville-Mézières -Dinant -Namur (EV3, EV5) -Liège -Maastricht -Venlo -Cuijk -Den Bosch -Dordrecht -Hoek van Holland (EV2, EV12, EV15) -Rotterdam (EV15)	France, Belgium, Netherlands	1,050	650

Routes EV10 and EV12 are a circular tour
Connections to other EV routes are in parentheses
Odd routes are heading north–south, even routes are heading west–east

Route information

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EuroVelo 1 – Atlantic Coast Route

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Main article:EV1 The Atlantic Coast Route

EuroVelo 1

Legend

Barents Sea

North Cape

EuroVelo#EuroVelo_11_–_East_Europe_Route

This diagram:

Stretching the length of the continent, fromNorth Cape, Norway toValença, Portugal, the EV1 connects Norway, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Wales, theWest Country of England, France, Spain and Portugal.^[7]

EuroVelo 2 – Capitals Route

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Main article:EV2 The Capitals Route

EuroVelo 2

This diagram:

EV2 runs betweenGalway, Ireland toMoscow, Russia visiting somecapital cities along the way, fromEyre Square toRed Square.

Between The Hague in the Netherlands and the German-Polish border, the EV2 follows the bicycle route calledEuropean Bicycle Route R1 orEuro-Route R1,^[8] an internationallong-distance cycling route connecting Boulogne-sur-Mer in France with St Petersburg in Russia.

EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route

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Main article:EV3 The Pilgrims Route

EuroVelo 3

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Santiago de Compostela

This diagram:

EV3 goes from Trondheim in Norway to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The route follows traces of old roads used forpilgrimages in theMiddle Ages. The route passes through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France and Spain. Most of these countries have a developed network of bicycle routes used as part of the EV3.

EuroVelo 4 – Central Europe Route

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EuroVelo 4

Legend

Roscoff

Mont-Saint-Michel

Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

This diagram:

The EV4 goes fromRoscoff, France toKyiv, Ukraine, going through France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Czechia, Poland, and Ukraine.

EuroVelo 5 – Via Romea Francigena

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Main article:EV5 Via Romea Francigena

EuroVelo 5

Legend

Canterbury

Dover

Channel Tunnel

underEnglish Channel

France

Belgium

(several km

in Germany)

Luxembourg

France

France

Switzerland

Adriatic Sea

This diagram:

The EV5 route is inspired by theVia Francigena, a pilgrimage route from London to Rome first recorded by Archbishop of CanterburySigeric in the 10th century AD. However, the route of the trueVia Francigena is an almost straight line path from London to Rome, while the EuroVelo 5 route takes a more easterly route that passes through Brussels, Luxembourg andStrasbourg in theAlsace. It then follows the Franco-German border, passes through Switzerland followingSwiss National Bike Route no. 3, before crossing the Alps at theGotthard Pass. It then passes through Italy (more closely following Sigeric's route) to Rome before continuing on to the Adriatic port city ofBrindisi.

EuroVelo 6 – River Route

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Main article:EV6 The Rivers Route

EuroVelo 6

Legend

Loire estuary into

Bay of Biscay

Loire

France

Switzerland

Rhine

Basel

Rhine Falls

Schaffhausen

Lake Constance

Switzerland

Germany

Danube

Ulm

Regensburg

Passau

Germany

Austria

Linz

Ybbs

Vienna

Austria

Slovakia

Bratislava

Slovakia

Hungary

Szigetköz

Slovakia

Hungary

Budapest

Hungary

Croatia

Hungary

Serbia

Osijek

Croatia

Serbia

Novi Sad

Belgrade

Iron Gates

Serbia

Bulgaria

Serbia

Romania

Vidin

Bulgaria

Romania

Ruse

Danube Delta

Constanța

Black Sea

This diagram:

Running fromSaint-Nazaire on the mouth of the riverLoire along that river eastward through France, EV6 passes over the border to Switzerland toLake Constance and then on to Tuttlingen in Germany, where it begins its way down theDanube following theDonauradweg (Danube Cycle Route). It follows that river, Europe's second longest, through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania to the river's mouth at theDanube Delta. It then continues southwards to end inConstanța, on the Black Sea.^[9]

Signage for EuroVelo 6 in France, near thetripoint of France, Switzerland and Germany

EuroVelo 7 – Sun Route

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Main article:EV7 The Sun Route

EuroVelo 7

Legend

Barents Sea

North Cape

Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

Sweden

Denmark

Germany

Czech Republic

Austria

Lake Garda

Tyrrhenian Sea

This diagram:

EV7 runs from theNorth Cape toMalta. It goes through Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Italy, and Malta.^[10]

EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route

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Main article:EV8 The Mediterranean Route

EuroVelo 8

(Monaco)

France

Italy

Piacenza

Turin

Mantua

Po Delta

Italy

Slovenia

Croatia

Lake Skadar

Montenegro

Albania

Ionian Sea

Aegean Sea

Dikili,Bergama,Aliağa,Foça,

İzmir,Çeşme,Seferihisar,Selçuk

This diagram:

EV8 follows the European coastline of the Mediterranean sea fromCádiz, Spain toAthens, Greece, going through Spain, France, italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus.^[11]^[12]

EuroVelo 9 – Amber Route

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Main article:EV9 The Amber Route

EuroVelo 9

Czech Republic

Austria

Slovenia

Italy

This diagram:

EV9 (in Poland, also labeled as R9) stretches from theBaltic Sea to theAdriatic Sea. It is so named after the precious stoneamber collected in the Baltic, which was taken by routes such as this to the Mediterranean. One of the shortest of the EuroVelo routes, EV9 still manages to cut across Europe from north to south, from Poland to Croatia, and in doing so passes through the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia en route.^[13]^[14]^[15]

Sign R9 at the south-western border ofWrocław, nearWrocław Airport
Signage for EuroVelo 9,Wiener Neustadt, Austria

EuroVelo 10 – Baltic Route

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EuroVelo 10

This diagram:

EV10 runs aroundBaltic Sea. Some of its parts are mapped onOpenStreetMap projectRelation: EuroVelo 10 - Baltic Sea Cycle Route - part Sweden (63584). On the state of the route there is an OpenStreetMap wiki page^[16]

EuroVelo 11 – East Europe Route

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Signage for EuroVelo 11,Vilnius, Lithuania.

EV11 connects (theoretically)Norway'sNorth Cape withAthens.

EuroVelo 12 – North Sea Route

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Main article:EV12 The North Sea Cycle Route

EuroVelo 12

Sweden

Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

Belgium

This diagram:

EV12 was the first European route, opened in June 2001, 6,000 km (3,700 mi) route through England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. It features in theGuinness Book of Records as the longest unbroken signposted cycling route. It was funded in part by the European Union'sInterreg initiative.

EuroVelo 13 – Iron Curtain Trail

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Main article:EV13 The Iron Curtain Trail

EuV13 follows the oldIron Curtain, the divided borders of Europe during theCold War.^[17] The ICT runs fromKirkenes, Norway on the Barents Sea, along the Finno-Russian border through to the Baltic Sea, then hugs the length of the Baltic coast toLübeck in Germany. It then follows the old border between West Germany and the former East Germany, the current borders between the Czech Republic and both Germany then Austria, the Austrian-Slovak and Austrian-Hungarian borders before following the borders of Romania, the formerYugoslavia,Bulgaria and North Macedonia.^[18] It finishes at Rezovo in Bulgaria on the Black Sea after following the border with Greece and Turkey.^[19]

EuroVelo 15 – The Rhine Cycle Route

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Main article:EV15 The Rhine Cycle Route

EuroVelo 15

Rhine

Lake Constance

Switzerland

France

Strasbourg

Cathedral

Strasbourg

France

Germany

Germany

Netherlands

Arnhem

Rhine Delta

Rotterdam

North Sea

This diagram:

EV15, with an overall length of about 1,320 km (820 mi) passes through four countries from the headwaters of theRhine inAndermatt in the Swiss Alps to the estuary inRotterdam in the Netherlands, via France^[20] and Germany.

EuroVelo 17 – Rhone Cycle Route

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Main article:EV17 Rhone Cycle Route

EuroVelo 17

This diagram:

EV17 has an overall length of about 1,250 km (780 mi).^[21] It starts in Andermatt and runs along each side ofLake Geneva before crossing into France. Passing throughLyon andAvignon, it forks into sections which end inMontpellier andMarseille.

EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route

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EV19, with an overall length of about 1,050 km (650 mi), is the newest and the shortest EuroVelo route.^[22] It follows one of the most significant rivers in Europe, from the source of theMeuse on theLangres plateau in France, heading north into Belgium and on to the river mouth atHook of Holland, with the route ending in the Dutch port city ofRotterdam.

Requirements

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TheECF has written a route development manual for those working on developing EuroVelo routes.^[23] According to the guidelines, all EuroVelo routes should fulfill the following criteria:

They must be based on existing or planned national or regional routes of the involved countries.
At least two countries must be involved.
Route length must be at least 1,000 km (620 mi).
Steep sections should be avoided wherever possible and for very steep sections (if unavoidable) alternative transport options (i.e. public transport or alternative routes) should be provided.^[24]
Easy to communicate - internationally recognisable identity and name (marketing potential).
Implementation plans in place (project plan, business plan, partners).
Signing in accordance with the regulations of the respective nations and/or regions, continuous and in both directions.
Signage supplemented by EuroVelo route information panels, in accordance with the recommendations ofUNECE and theECF'sSigning of EuroVelo cycle routes manual.