Can Freu is a rural farmhouse in the Girona countryside, built from the ground up as a bike hotel for road, MTB and gravel cyclists — the ideal base for a cycling training camp or group cycling accommodation in Girona. Mauri Nialet, director and host, has 30 years of cycling experience and 25 years running Can Freu. We speak Catalan, Spanish, français i English.

The best terrain for riding

Can Freu sits right against Les Guilleries, in the heart of La Selva’s best cycling routes. You head out straight from the house onto mountain roads, forest tracks and paths no car ever touches — road, MTB, gravel or enduro, without ever loading your bike onto anything.

Les Guilleries and Santa Coloma de Farners are well known territory for mountain bikers: varied terrain, real elevation, and a climate that lets you ride almost all year round.

And just a step away, Girona — one of the places where the most professional cyclists and international teams choose to train. It’s no coincidence: there are routes for every level, and a cycling community that keeps growing.

Can Freu is part of that world, but with its own take on it: the peace of a natural setting, immediate access to Les Guilleries routes, and a house genuinely built for training camps and group cycling stays.

Who we are

At the helm of Can Freu is Mauri Nialet, who has spent 25 years opening the doors of this Selva farmhouse to those seeking to disconnect from city life. Before running Can Freu, Mauri lived high-level sport first-hand: alpinism, sport climbing, mountain running, cycling and kitesurfing. That background is exactly what led him to make the move into cycling: turning Can Freu into a cycling centre, because we believe the bike is one of the best ways to reconnect with the land around us.

Our purpose

At Can Freu Cycling Center we see sport as a gateway into nature, not an excuse to ride roughshod over it. Every route we design, every forest we ride through, commits us to looking after it: existing tracks only, respect for the natural spaces of Les Guilleries, and a farmhouse surrounded by 2 hectares of woodland that we manage under that same philosophy. Riding here is also a way of caring for the place.