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title: From Como to Bergamo. A stunning Giro di Lombardia
description: "Giro di Lombardia has returned to its usual spot in the Monuments schedule: 9 October, 2021 the 115th edition will feature an elevation change of 4500 mt."
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# [From Como to Bergamo. A stunning Giro di Lombardia](https://journal.wilier.com/en/from-como-to-bergamo-a-stunning-giro-di-lombardia)

 Written by [Wilier](https://journal.wilier.com/en/author/wilier) | Oct 8, 2021 10:29:00 AM

For amateur cyclists and cyclo-tourists alike, the road that goes from **Como** to **Bergamo** offers the perfect landscape.

It borders lakes **Alserio**, **Pusiano**, **Annone** and **Garlate** and, if you wish to enjoy some of the beauty that is **Lake Como**, a possible variation to the itinerary lets you travel alongside its shores to **Nesso**. This is where you leave the lakes behind you to make your way up to **Pian del Tivano**, which leads to the celebrated cycling site of **Colma di Sormano**.  
It is on the Colma di Sormano that *cycling enthusiasts *of all sorts can get a strong sense of the **Giro di Lombardia**, despite it not being factored in the route of the 115th edition, which also doesn’t include the many other roads where the impact of the panorama is breath-taking.

This is the nature of **Lombardy**: an extraordinary and never-ending variety of cycling routes that will quench the desires of any aficionado.

However, **9 October, 2021**, is an important date because **[Il Lombardia 2021](https://www.ilombardia.it/en/)** finally returns to reclaim its place in the international calendar: in autumn, to continue to live up to its nickname, “Classica delle Foglie Morte” – the Race of the Falling Leaves. Therefore, this year’s route is a sort of re-emergence of the legend, and the organisers, of the **[hundreds of possible options](https://journal.wilier.com/en/tag/places)** between **Como** and **Bergamo**, could only pick one. Their choice? The course that includes an elevation change of **4500 metres**.

In this edition, the amazing story of road cycling continues by passing the **Sanctuary of Madonna del Ghisallo**, a location that is impossible to say no to for true bike lovers. Another must-see is the **descent towards Bellaggio**, where you again come in spectacular contact with **Lake Como**.

The road then becomes an interminable sequence of climbs and descents among the **Orobic Prealps**, which counts, among its most difficult challenges, the ascent to **Roncola Alta**, in the first half of the race, and the climb up to **Passo di Ganda**, the last truly rough moment before the fast descent towards **Bergamo**.

Between the two, in order to complete the picture of a particularly demanding Giro di Lombardia, the racers will have to face the long 24 km climb taking them from **San Pellegrino Terme** to the **1257-meters of Zambla Alta**.

It is the very essence of Lombardy that gives the organisers such a vast choice of courses: indeed, the region offers an uninterrupted chain of cycling panoramas that open up at every turn. So much so that one would be tempted to feel a little sorry for the professionals who, due to the necessary competitive trance they inevitably fall into, are unable to enjoy the eye-catching views offered by **[Il Lombardia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_di_Lombardia)**.

Which, at the end of the day, if you take a closer look, is just one of the many enticing cycling itineraries of Lombardy that anyone can relish.

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