The Girona City Council wants to limit the granting of licenses for new businesses related to cycling. Cycle tourism is thriving. an extraordinary boom in the city, especially in the Barri Vell, where in recent years, every time an iconic business closes, a new one opens a new store linked to high-end cyclingDesigned to attract primarily foreign customers.

In mid-May I turned 37, a date when you're dangerously close to forty, and I thought it was time to start them off with a good challenge to keep going strong. A couple of years ago I pedal a gravel bike through Girona and I wanted to try cycling from home with everything you need to sleep away. It's what many have come to name bikepacking, although in my case I wanted to avoid carrying a tent and all the food, because I didn't intend to be self-sufficient. One route in particular caught my attention: what if I circumnavigated the Girona region in five days, traveling by bike for an average of eight hours? That's how my personal birthday present began, on a trip supported by the Greenways Consortium and the Girona-Costa Brava Tourist Board, which provided the accommodation.

In the middle of Girona's egg yolk, facing the Café Le Bistrot esplanade and the Sant Martí steps, in one of the most romantic and idyllic corners of the city, a spectacular new bicycle shop has just opened. It occupies the two floors of the former Odeon Hall and Theatre, a legendary establishment of leisure and culture in Girona since the 19th century, closed more than ten years ago, which was in a state of disrepair and has now been completely restored after 4 years of work. The new premises, conceived as a kind of boutique of select articles with a multidisciplinary space of sofas and a cafeteria, aims to become a new international attraction for cycling enthusiasts, in a city that has long It has established itself as the world epicenter of cyclingThe owner and developer of the renovation—which cost around €2 million in private capital—is Girona businessman Miquel Casals, and the new tenant is the Velodrom Group, one of the city's leading cycling brands.