Gold Pack Festival Experience

Can you imagine riding accompanied by World Tour Riders such as Robert Gesink or George Bennett? 

Here in Girona, and only in the Gold Pack experience, wake up and start your morning with guided all exclusive shop rides accompanied by World Tour Riders like Robert Gesink, George Bennett, Nathan Haas, Steele Von Hoff or Shane Archibold. You will never find an other opportunity to ride with this many pro riders GUIDING YOU!

WHY THE GOLDPACK?

Get The Gran Fondo Elite Jersey, a special Goodie Bag and full entry to our 3 unique cycling events to ride and test yourself with cyclists from all over the world. Starting with the Els Àngels Hill Climb followed by the crazy Nocturn in the heart of the old city, racing on the cobbles right in front the famous Cathedral and finishing with The Girona Gran Fondo and the Rocacorba challenge. Relax after all the riding and enjoy an included 1h sports massage.

All the cycling events carry points for the Omnium competition where you can win amazing prizes.

Participate in all our social activities, food experiences, the Gala Meal, a culinary session and other activities to be confirmed such as previous years’ special yoga classes for cyclists, the Roosik’s Jewellery workshop tour or an interesting evening with Rory Sutherland.

You will find our Race Village in a stunning location with amazing views of the Old City. In the Race Village tasty food and drinks will be provided by The Rocacorba Food truck and delicious coffee from the Robert Gesink’s famous Broomwagon. Just by showing your Gold Pack member bracelet at the Race Village, all food, beer and coffee are included for you!

You will also be able to visit our cycling Boutique stand with special offers for the festival, attend the pre-Fondo concert and more.

Get the complete Girona Cycling Festival experience with our Gold Pack Entry.

CHECK OUT SOME EXTRA ACTIVITIES WE DID IN 2019! 

Local Market Race Bag Collection and Cooking Class

Exclusive for the Gold Pack, we have a collaboration with local culinary experience providers Local Market who host the welcome meal and race bag presentation.

Later in the week, Gold Pack guests enjoy a olive oil & cheese tasting again with Local Market giving Gold Pack members a chance to savour the very best local cuisine on offer.

Roosik&Co Jewellery Experience

Live jewellery-making session at Jordi Rosich's workshop.

The secret workshop of Jordi Rosich where the best diamonds in the city sleep.

Beneath one of Girona's most emblematic streets, Rambla de la Llibertat, lies the secret workshop of Jordi Rosich.

This is where Rosich designs and traditionally creates all his haute joaillerie collections, nestling below his boutique: ROOSIK&CO. Jordi will be giving an exclusive tour of his private workshop and a demonstration of his creative jewelry making process.

Exclusive for Gold Pack members.

Themed Shop Rides

OUR DAILY RIDES IN THE FESTIVAL WEEK

As always there will be daily shop rides from Bike Breaks or the race village during the festival week.

Join us for the spin of your choice, we will have 3 ride levels each day, all leaving from the same place so you can decide depending on how the legs feel each day.

Our fantastic hosts for the 2020 Girona Cycling Festival edition are:

rocacorba food truck

During the week we will get a sneak peak of what the Rocacorba Food Truck has to offer, apart from great coffee and cake

dos kiwis

Our friends at Dos Kiwis Brewery in the Empordà region will host some of the shop rides during the Festival week. Riders will have a relaxing stop in their brewery garden.

can portell

We will definitely repeat the fantastic mid ride stop at the most colourful farmhouse Can Portell, where owner Debbie surprised us with a mariachi band and an amazing selection of home-made juices and snacks. Feel free to plunge into the pool before getting back on the bike.

la rectoria

The lovingly restored rectory, now luxury farmhouse accommodation, will host a ride during the week with amazing coffee and cake.

girona gravel ride *

Thursday 8th of October at 10:00h from the Race Village

girona cycling festival girls ride *

Friday 9th of October at 10:00h from the Race Village

* Please pre-register for these rides We have put together these rides especially for the Girona Cycling Festival. We have 25 places available for Gold Pack and Full Week entry only, don't miss out, join in!  

Girona Cycling Festival Kids Race

Following on from the success the previous years' kids race we will again be giving the little cyclists a crack at the nocturn course before the big cyclists go.

Please, send us an e-mail if you like to register your little cyclist. Entry is free, numbers are limited!

- Age group 1: from 3 to 6

- Age group 2: from 7 to 11

There will be goodie bags, race numbers and medals.

 

Jazz Night

On Tuesday we will repeat the fabulous Jazz Night hosted by Hotel Nord 1901.

Set in the stunning secret back garden of the hotel with poolside live jazz and local Catalan delicacies

A worthy addition to the packed social event calendar for the Girona Cycling Festival.

Catalan Gala Meal

Once again this super popular event, this year held on the Wednesday evening is the Catalan Gala Meal in restaurant Cul del Món. Located just on the edge of the Les Gavarres Mountain Nature Reserve, this well known local restaurant provides an amazing setting for our Gala Festival event. A fantastic evening and a chance for all the participants to get to know each other off the bike and enjoy the Catalan-Moroccan fusion cuisine that is the specialty of this amazing restaurant.

I have been going to the Girona Cycling Festival every year since 2014 and it’s the first cycling trip that goes in the diary every year. The Gold Pack has everything you could want and more – Entries to all of the cycling events, guided group rides with Josep, and if you are lucky you might get to follow the wheels of some of the resident professionals for a while before they peel off to do their hard work for the day. As well as the great riding and the friendship, the Gold Pack also includes all of the social events that take place through the week, as well as some exclusives. This year the “Food Tour” had to be tasted to be believed.

Definitely can’t wait to see what June 2019 has in store!

David Morgan

It’s the third time I’ve participated in the Gold Pack and there are a number of fantastic things I really enjoy about this package.

Numbers are strictly limited allowing for the participants to get to know each other well. A few of the others have done every Gold Pack event since the event started five years ago so it’s always good to see them again.

A few of the highlights were riding and coffee with the pro’s, a fantastic Catalan meal

with the best Arrós I’ve ever eaten which is a local rice dish , the Girona Food Tour which took in a number of local restaurants as well as some historical information on the old town, Jeweller tour where we watched the production process of the Gold being melted and cast into moulds (this was super cool) met Rory

Sutherland at his Cafe to learn about his new venture  (was great to be able to ask questions about his career) an exclusive

evening fully catered meal at the Local Market which specialises in small groups and served all local produce. The events which are all included in the package were well organised and catered for, being for Gold Pack members we had exclusive front start position on the Grand Fondo as well as food and beverages at the race village. All and all I really enjoyed the whole Gold Pack cycling week, it’s a week long celebration to cycling with food, wine, friends and some cycling thrown in to boot. I’ll be back again next year for sure, highly recommend the Gold Pack to anyone looking for something special.

Roman Watkins