Maria Knaapen

Maria Knaapen runs S-Cape Spain. She says “Ever since I first set foot in Spain, way back in 1988, I have been fascinated by the different landscapes this country has to offer. My first love was the mountain range Picos de Europe, in northern Spain, where I started doing field work as an anthropologist and ended up designing walking and cycling tours for a Dutch tour operator.

Today, at S-Cape Travel we design our own self-guided tripsfrom our headquarters in the heart of Picos de Europa mountain range. We are experts on cycling holidays in northern Spain and simply love going out there to design new tours. We are local and have in-depth knowledge of all our tours as we have cycled all the routes ourselves. 

Besides designing the most beautiful routes, we also hand-pick the accommodation, preferring small scale family run rural hotels above anything else; we organise the transport of your luggage; we rent out bikes and we prepare a detailed (digital or printed) roadbook with turn-by-turn descriptions supported by our navigation App. In sum, we take care of all the logistics so that you can fully enjoy your cycling holidays in Northern Spain.

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