24/06/2026
If you're living in Genova or Liguria and enjoy outdoor activities — this is the coastal cycling path you really shouldn't miss.
Ciclabile Riviera dei Fiori.40km. Entirely along the sea. Entirely flat.
Built on the bed of an old coastal railway line — no gradients, no cars, impossible to get lost. It runs from Ospedaletti to Andora, passing through Sanremo, Imperia, Cervo and a string of small villages that many people living in Liguria for years have still never visited.
10 stops along the route:**
🟢 Ospedaletti· km 0 — start here, rent your bike at the station
🎵 Sanremo· km 5 — old port, morning focaccia, the real city not the festival version
🏖️ Arma di Taggia· km 10 — local beach, not touristy, unhurried
🌊 Riva Ligure· km 13 — small piazza, good gelato, locals actually use it
🌿 Santo Stefano al Mare· km 15 — small, quiet, easy to underestimate
💙 San Lorenzo al Mare· km 18 — the closest the path gets to the water, sea on both sides
🫒 Imperia· km 25 — stop for lunch, walk up to Oneglia and look back at everything you've just cycled through
🌴 Diano Marina· km 31 — wide beach, palm trees, good place to rest
🐟 San Bartolomeo al Mare· km 34 — quieter, cleaner, less known
🏰 Cervo · km 36 — lock the bike and walk up the hill. Worth every step.
Practical notes:
- From Genova: train to Sanremo approx. 90 min · Ospedaletti is one stop further
- Bike rental: 15–20 euro/day at Ospedaletti or Sanremo
- Recommended one way — take the train back from Andora
- Best months: April–May and September–October
- July–August weekends: crowded and hot — go early if you go in summer
What makes this route special is a combination that's genuinely rare: accessible to almost anyone, and somehow still not overrun with tourists. Not every day off needs to be Cinque Terre. Sometimes you just want a slow day — take the train, rent a bike, follow the coast, stop whenever you feel like it. No itinerary pressure.
Cervo is the stop worth making time for. A medieval stone village on a hill above the sea, a baroque church facing the water, almost no one there — sitting right off the main path but easy to miss if you don't know to look for it. Not the famous spot. The one that feels like you found it yourself.
And the old railway tunnels are unlike anything else on the Riviera. Cycling through rock, cool and dark, and then suddenly an opening — a framed rectangle of turquoise water below, maybe a sailboat in the distance. The kind of moment that stays with you longer than most photographs do.
If anyone has done this route — would love to hear which section you'd go back to.
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