2025 Vuelta a España: Italy start includes Stage 2 Mountain finish to Limone Piedmont

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2025 Vuelta a España: Italy start includes Stage 2 Mountain finish to Limone Piedmont

The 2025 Vuelta a España will start in Piedmont, Italy, with three stages, including the mountain finish at Limone Piedmont in Stage 2, and the 4th stage will head to the French Alps, where you can head to another mountain stage. It has been confirmed. 

After hosting the Giro d'Italia Grande Partenza in 2023 and hosting this year's Tour de France stage, Piedmont has been keen to host all 3 grand tours in recent years. Turin, along with Utrecht, will be the 3rd city to host all 2 grand tours.

The official announcement took place in Turin, confirming reports that in the Regional Council budget for 2025 and 2026, 700 million euros were earmarked for Grand Departs.

The 2025 Vuelta a España will mark the 90th edition of the Grand Tour of Spain. The 3-week race will start in Turin on 8/23 and the 1st stage will end in Novara. Stage 2 climbs to Limone Piedmont and Stage 3 is the Nakayama Stage, more than 139 km from San Maurizio Canavese and Ceres. The organizers of the Vuelta a España said that Stage 4 will begin with Sousa, which is close to the French order, but did not give details of the end of the stage.

The 2025 edition of La Vuelta will be the first to start outside Spain and depart from Italy, following Lisbon (1997), Assen (2009), Nimes (2017), Utrecht (2022) and Lisbon Oeiras Cascais (2024). to. Monaco has already been announced as the host of the start of the 2026 race.

The official presentation of the 2025 Vuelta a Espana route will be held in Madrid on 12/19. Stage finishing in Andorra and Angril is expected to form part of the route.

Cyclingnews understands that the 2025 La Vuelta Femenina route is not scheduled to be published on 12/19. The women's race will be held from 5/5 to 5/11 next year.

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