DRAFT — awaiting Kevin's confirm-notes below before publish. Built by matching Strava GPS tracks against a GPS-tagged photo, not from a named Strava ride.

Italy · Liguria · Riviera dei Fiori

One of the two climbs that decide Milan–San Remo, ridden repeatedly across at least three separate trips.

Cipressa sits above the coast between San Lorenzo al Mare and San Remo — a name that means something specific in cycling: it's one of the two climbs (the other is the Poggio) that Milan–San Remo, one of cycling's oldest one-day professional races, has to get over before the finish. This isn't a route pulled from a database; it turned up as a genuine repeat in the ride history, confirmed by a photo of the village's own cycling-route sign.

How this page got built

This one didn't come from a named Strava ride — the GPS tracks showed a real, repeated climbing route about 11–12km inland from the coast, ridden across 2018 and 2022, but nothing in the ride titles said where. A geo-matched photo from the same dates and location settled it: a road sign reading "CIPRESSA" with a cycling-route marker underneath.

Route data (from Strava): climbing rides in this cluster run 400–1,000m of elevation gain apiece, ridden repeatedly rather than as a one-off — consistent across trips in 2018 and 2022. Distances and grades on the individual climbs are still being matched to specific rides; treat the numbers as provisional until confirmed.

What it actually looks like

A road sign reading CIPRESSA with a cycling route marker, Liguria, Italy
The sign that confirmed the location — Cipressa, with its own marked cycling route.
Two cyclists riding a palm-lined coastal road near Cipressa, Liguria
The coastal approach below Cipressa — palm-lined and flat before the climb starts.
View over the Ligurian sea from near Cipressa, Italy
The sea view that comes with climbing straight up from the coast.
Kevin's wife with their dog Lillie in a bike basket at a coastal viewpoint near Cipressa
Kevin's wife and Lillie the dog — a regular riding pair, though Lillie travels by bike basket rather than pedalling.
Motorhomes parked at a coastal aire near Cipressa, Liguria
The coastal aire used as a base for these trips — motorhome country, same as most of the other Italian pages on this site.
Coffee and pastries at a café near Cipressa, Liguria
The reward at the bottom — or the fuel before heading back up.
Cipressa sits above the coast road between San Lorenzo al Mare and San Remo.

Kevin confirms it's the same road up every time — the actual Milan–San Remo climb, not a variant way up to the same village — and the Strava ride dates line up with the photo dates above, so this page can be trusted as one consistent route across all four visits (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Any food/coffee stop worth naming, or the café in the photo?

Source: Strava GPS tracks (2018 & 2022 climbing rides) cross-matched against 20 real photos from the Google Photos archive, confirmed by an on-the-ground road sign and by Kevin directly.