Italian Green Road Award 2021: there are still a few days left to submit the greenway nominations!

There are still a few days left until May 31st, last day to send the cycle route applications toItalian Green Road Award 2021, sixth edition of‘Italian cycle touring Oscar which this year too will reward the "green ways" of the Italian regions which have distinguished themselves in their attention to "slow" tourism and which have been able to enhance the cycle routes by completing them with services suitable for the development of slow tourism.

At the moment, applications have arrived from Calabria, Liguria, Marche, Puglia, Tuscany and Trentino Alto Adige, which have nominated wonderful cycle routes that take very different itineraries into consideration: panoramic routes over the sea and along the lakes, roads that climb up mountains and highly evocative routes between cultivated fields and waterways.

Each region can nominate a maximum of two greenways, which, we remind you, are greenways only if they are roads reserved exclusively for non-motorised vehicles, dirt roads or secondary roads and are signposted and designed routes to allow cyclists to travel along them in total safety.

The first three prizes will be awarded to green roads with criteria of excellence and the highest score according to various parameters, such as: design, construction, promotion, signage and green services.

There will also be a Press Award and a special mention for the cycle route that stands out.

“We have already received applications for very interesting cycle routes which are appearing for the first time, but also some welcome returns: these are green routes which have been further improved in the characteristics of the route or in the services and it is pleasing to see the tireless work of the local administrators, who believe in a form of sustainable tourism that brings awareness and wealth to the territories crossed", reported Sebastiano Venneri, President of Vivilitalia and head of tourism at Legambiente, who has always supported the Italian Green Road Award.

The awards ceremony of this edition will be held Saturday 19 June in Pescara, in Abruzzo, a region that won the 2020 Cycle Tourism Oscar.

Furthermore, on the same occasion, previews of theIsnart-Legambiente cycle tourism observatory in view of the Bike Summit 2021, which will take stock of the cycle tourism economy in the autumn.

In previous editions, high-level cycle routes have been awarded such as: “L'Assisi – Spoleto- Norcia” in 2015, “L’Alpe Adria” in Friuli Venezia Giulia in 2016, “La Ciclovia dell’Amicizia” in Veneto in 2017, “ The Oglio River Cycle Route in Lombardy in 2018, and, in 2020, the “Bike to Coast” in Abruzzo, a 131 km cycle route that largely runs along the old railway line overlooking the sea, from Martinsicuro to San Salvo, mainly coastal route which offers spectacular views of the Costa dei Trabocchi.