All cycling routes: Bicycle

The Beromünster national radio sender scrapes the sky, the hills tease your calves, the Hallwilersee and Baldeggersee lakes please eyes and spirits, the roses at Heidegger Castle enchant noses and the Lindenberg stimulates the circulation to Muri.

Once again Bern’s picture-postcard panorama with the old town and distant snowy summits, then the usually peaceful Emme in riverside woodland, the staid farming region of Emmental, where Gotthelf read the riot act to farmers and justice was spoken in Trachselwald Castle.

Starting in Lenzburg, a quiet path leads over the Bööler pass and the mountain trail to Beromünster. Via this panoramic route you'll reach the golf court Sempachersee. Thereafter, the loop soon ends in the main Heart Route by Eschenbach.

One of the main highlights of the Jura region is the natural rock cirque Creux du Van, the largest nature reserve in the Canton of Neuchâtel. This e-bike tour takes you right up to this natural wonder.

This easy tour is a good choice for families. Experience the beautiful valley and its unique lakeside landscape.

On the side of the next Jura chain, medieval St. Ursanne awaits on the banks of the mysterious Doubs. Another sweat-inducing climb to the high Freiberge, wide, peaceful countryside with pastures, pine trees and grazing cattle and horses.

The Brünigpass separates the Bernese bear and the Innerschweiz, linked by pilgrim paths, railways and dialect. Obwalden: a tiny canton, a wide valley, a pre-Alpine landscape with scattered settlements, shallow lakes and long traditions.

Scenic crests, babbling streams and shady woodland sweeten the ups and downs on this country route. In the distance medieval Romon stands proud on a hill and Bulle beckons with culinary delights.

Bilingual Fribourg was founded by Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen in 1157. This university town marks the setting-off point for a 97km loop featuring 970m of climbing through the hilly landscape of Canton Fribourg.

This route is one of the five stages of the Lugano e-mountain bike tour, which starts at Ponte Tresa and ends in Morcote. The Lugano e-mountain bike tour is full of variety, leading through sweet chestnut forests, over hills and past pastures, lakes and rivers.

From Olten, over small Jura foothills, past the former patrician seat of Waldegg Castle, to the baroque town of Solothurn. On through the alluvial marshland of the meandering Aare, via Grenchen, to Biel, bilingual Seeland metropolis with its beautiful old town.

Follow the now tamed River Emme, past stately farmhouses with wide overhanging hipped roofs. Emmental, a finely structured system of 170 valleys and rolling hills. From the Gotthelf village of Lützelflüh to Langnau, home of Emmental cheese.

From Uetendorf railway station, the route leads along the renatured River Limpach through fertile agricultural country until Gerzensee and the steep climb to Belpberg. This tour delights with great views of the Aare, Gürbe and Stockental valleys.

After passing through some lovely gorges, among them those at Moutier which once inspired Goethe, the landscape opens up to a wide valley. The journey ends in Delémont, the capital of the canton of Jura. Its historic center is well worth a visit.

The ascent from Le Châble to the Mauvoisin Dam is rough, twisty and steep – and with no distant views for quite a way. You don’t catch sight of Switzerland’s second-highest dam until right towards the end.

The Jungfrau is not necessarily known as a road cycling destination, but it does offer one of Europe’s finest passes: the Grosse Scheidegg (alt. 1962m).

You can discover the source of the Rhine twice within a radius of 270 kilometres. In between you can explore two Alpine passes, deep gorges and the frontiers of three linguistic regions.

The pleasant ride along the varied Mittelland Route is mostly on traffic-free paths, along lakes and rivers, through wide plains and peaceful valleys, towns and villages, industry and agricultural land.

From the resort of Klosters through long strung-out Prättigau, on terraces and side valleys, flanked by high mountains, such as the Silvretta and Rätikon. On to Landquart in the Rhine Valley, past the health spa of Bad Ragaz to the traffic hub of Sargans.

Featuring almost 50 kilometres of climbing, this loop calls for fitness and a love of adventure.

An amazing tour with a little known 18-km ascent and an unpaved section.

A sportive bike tour of 56 km along the history and prehistory in the Ajoie. The route follows the French-Swiss border and offers a great variety of interesting discoveries and sites along the way.

This section leads through France all of the way/most of the way. See «International routes» for further information.

Low-stemmed fruit trees stand stalwartly together, the high-stemmed alone. The area is called «Mostindien», (most is the name for apple and pear juice). Here inns are rare, Ice Age the boulders, Alpine views spectacular. The Bodensee beckons from a distance.

A countryside with streams flowing in deep clefts taxes the calves, castles, medieval towns and the silver sea of Lac Léman lighten the spirits, the juice of sun-kissed grapes and Malakoff cheese specialities pamper the palate.

Between Kaiserstuhl and Ziegelbrücke peaceful valleys, plains, moraine landscapes and lake shores alternate with industrial areas and the hectic buzz of Zurich, the business metropolis.

The Leventina has been a transit corridor since ancient times. The further south, the milder the climate. An easy ride along the waters of the Ticino, soon passing chestnut trees and vineyards. Bellinzona, called «La Turita» because of its many castles.

A nice route easily accessible to everyone which takes you through the Rhone valley between farmland and forest belts. A journey on the water's edge: the river Rhone, Lake Geneva and the Stockalper channel. Not to mention the picturesque villages and many restaurants.

Lush green flower meadows, fascinating fauna, an emerald green mountain lake with temperatures as high as 23 degrees and a fantastic view of the mountains – you'll find it all in the village of Lungern.

A cool underwater world in cave grottos, a grim battle world at crystal-clear Ägerisee, an orchid, peat and insect world on the Rothenthurm high moor and a busy world of pilgrims in Einsiedeln, place of pilgrimage.

Passing timber-framed houses of Zurich’s wine country, on past the idyllic Nussbaumer Seen (lakes) and the Kartause in Ittingen, through rolling hills to Wil and on to St. Gallen with its venerable Stift Library and finally ending at the silvery Bodensee.

The Glatt and the cycling path wind through the flat Zurich Unterland, unnoticed by the thriving busy residential and industrial settlements, seen only by the unavoidable airborne mass of giant silver-aluminium «birds».