Czech and Slovak cyclists on pilgrimage to Aquileia, Italy

Some 130 cyclists from around Czechia and Slovakia set off from Uherský Brod on Saturday for a pilgrimage to the Italian town of Aquileia. According to the organizer of the event, Petr Gabriel from the sports organization Orel, the cyclists will ride to the Adriatic coast via Slovakia and Austria, covering almost nine hundred kilometers in nine stages. They should arrive in the Italian city of Aquileia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on Sunday 11 August. In previous years, the peloton has travelled to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Budapest in Hungary, Cologne in Germany, Krakow in Poland, Fátima in Portugal and also to Svatá Hora in Czechia.