Bielmonte via Portula

Beautiful climb worth climbing. Wide road and excellent asphalt. The climb is long and fairly even with gradients always between 5 and 7％ with a harder middle and final part. In the last 4 km there is also a km of descent that allows you to breathe before the last ramps.

Beautiful and not too difficult climb that does have a tough middle section. Although the climb seems less interesting at first glance, the last five kilometres in particular are truly spectacular. At twenty kilometres, the climb is also quite long and can wear you out wonderfully due to the heat. Coming from Biella, the day starts anyway with about seven kilometres of climbing out of Biella.
The climb is quite gentle and has different landscapes. The first part goes through some villages, the steeper middle section through a forest and the last kilometres you ride over the ridge and have beautiful views both ways. If you continue to Biella, you will have thirty kilometres of descent to give you a reward for the climb.

Not particularly interesting in the first part, then it becomes a spectacle, between the hairpin bends of the Zegna oasis and the long panorama just below the ridge. Challenging sections in the middle section.