Horizontal Cities

we love

WE LOVE CYCLING. We think you love cycling too.
WE LOVE CYCLING DOWNHILL. We think you love that too.

At Horizontal Cities, we believe that everybody should be able to cycle in the city.
It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, fit or unfit, cycle every day or only once a month. It doesn’t matter if you’re strolling around or commuting to work or bring your kids to school.

You just want the best route. Safe. Short. Avoiding the hills.

HORIZONTAL shows you the flattest and safest cycling route.

The road of least resistance. Based on your personal cycling profile. Based on your preferences. With turn by turn navigation and voice guidance.

View our features

Features

Flattest route

Avoiding hills, avoiding cobble stones. The flattest, yet fasted route possible, using the best topographic data available.

Safest route

Preference for cycling paths and local cycling networks. Preferring low traffic areas over heavy traffic streets.

Tailor-made

Beginner, daily commuter or pro ? Routing based on your personal cycling profile. Based on your preferences. Adjusting when you improve.

Turn-by-turn

Real-time turn-by-turn navigation and voice guidance. Route tracking.

What people say about us

Removing the hills from a city has such promise. Topography has been shaping our cities since their beginning. It’s a forgotten skill, passed down directly from our grandparents.
as melhores rotas para cada tipo de ciclista
Ingenious way to flatten Lisbon’s hills for most riders. Textbook stuff.
A Lisboa Horizontal há-de estar em muitas mais cidades
Aqui no #FOBOWorld já passou a ser a primeira app que abrimos quando saímos de casa e, se não traz muitas novidades para os veteranos do asfalto, a verdade é que já nos surpreendeu com a sugestão de percursos que nunca tínhamos pensado que poderiam ser mais fáceis. Uma ferramenta bem útil para os ciclistas alfacinhas.
Not all of Lisbon is hilly, however. According to Lisboa Horizontal, a project that sought to map the city’s gradients for cycling, 63% of all the city’s streets are less than 4%.
Lisboa Horizontal es excelente, aborda nuestra gran discusión de fondo acerca del uso de la bicicleta en Medellín: la topografía de la ciudad es algo que siempre se menciona en cada foro o evento que tenemos alrededor del uso de este medio de transporte
Rui Amador

To end myths is a strong motivation. To end the myth of a city with lots of slopes is an even bigger motivation in order to have more and more people cycling.
Nuno Sardinha

An idea which will be very useful for the users, will promote the circulation of bicycles within the city of Lisbon and help to reach environmental sustainability in our city!
Bernardo Pereira

Excellent idea for the city of Lisbon.